Mrs. Murray was our substitute teacher. She will be here for two days. She will help us learn about things. She is a nice teacher. Mrs. Gengler is gone because she is going to Vegas with her family. Mrs. Murray is amazing! Jasmine said, "We had fun today!"

We wrote in our journals. We drew pictures. Some of us drew clouds. Some of us made a shark. Some of us wrote more than two sentences. Sometimes we write about our weekend. Josiah said, "I like writing."

We went to Physical Education (PE). Mrs. Gengler's class played with balls and Mrs. Kozlosky's class went on scooters. The balls were soft soccer balls. They had different designs. Gavin said, "It's good!"

We found new math apps!

We are learning to count up in Math. To count up you pretend to hold the big number. Then you put up fingers until you get to your answer. Alyssa said, "We are practicing a lot."

Fun with math

We are taking turns, working together, building good sportsmanship, helping each other and learning about numbers when we play board games.

Today was my birthday. We didn't have snack. We sang a birthday song for Kamahdi. He got to pick a present. Kamahdi picked six candles. The candles were kids. Kamahdi said, "We had fun".

We met our new friend Lizzie today. Welcome! Welcome!

We had a Thanksgiving feast. We said what we were thankful for. We ate grapes. We had a turkey cake with M&Ms. There was a lot of food. Nathan said, "It was delicious".

Our Thanksgiving Feast

We went to the library. There are a lot of books. We get 2 books. We need to remember to bring them back to school. There was a spider in the library. He was trying to read books. Sofi said, "We had fun in the library."

On Fire Team Inspire

We sent your child's yellow shirt home on Wednesday.  Your child should wear the shirt every Wednesday.  He/She will also wear it for the winter sing.

We learned a lot about Pilgrims, the Mayflower and turkeys this week. Ask your child about his/her new learning. The first graders made a mini book about their learning. Some of the kids made a turkey to hang in the hall. We heard a story about a turkey missing his feathers and did a turkey dance.

Next week is a very short week.  On Tuesday, we will have a Thanksgiving feast. Thank you to those who volunteered to bring in something. We will have plenty to eat and drink at our feast.

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving break. Enjoy your family, the food and the shopping.

We had math. Some of us helped kindergartners. We glued math sentences under true or false. Fifth graders helped some of us learn a new game.  The game had dice in a dome. We had to add the numbers and then color the answer. Ariana said, "It was a good learning day for us."

We made bracelets to go with a Thanksgiving story. Each color stands for something different.  We are taking them home to share with our families.

We had gym. We went outside and walked, skipped and ran. When we were done, we got a drink of water. Jocelyn said, "We learned a lot about exercise".

We had centers. Some of us made cakes with little wood sticks. Some of us played with playdough including Krystal. Some of us played legos. Some of us played with blocks. Krystal played with playdough.

Our pumpkin seed are growing.

We made Thanksgiving bracelets. White is for the boat. Blue is for the water. Green is for the land. Black is for the hard winter. Brown is for turkeys. Red is for the berries. Yellow is for corn. Orange is for pumpkin pie. LuiSandro said, "I can't wait to make a bracelet tomorrow."

TGIF

It was a long week with no specials and too much rain. We ended the week with a movie because we were so proud of how well our class handled this tough week.

We wore our yellow shirts on Wednesday. We will wear them again next Wednesday and then your child will bring them home.  Please have your child wear his or her shirt every Wednesday this year. It is really cool to see us all in yellow. We got many compliments from other teachers and students.

We had a lot of fun with government this week and are in the process of sharing our learning through videos. We will let you know where and when you can see them. Thank you for taking time to do inquiry homework with your child. Learning begins at home. We appreciate your support.

Our school has been offered an opportunity to try a computer program for free. It is called Reading Horizons. The link is posted on this blog and will also be sent home on Monday. It will take the place of Compass Odyssey. We have been impressed with it so far.

We will have a Thanksgiving Feast on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. Additional information will be sent home on Monday.

We had a movie in our room.  We watched the Avengers and Phineas and Ferb.  We had popcorn.  We had Sprite.  We had this special treat because we were being good.  Trinity said, "It was a blast of cheese". Lexi said, "It was a nice movie".

We put on our yellow shirts today. They say "Team Inspire". It has our names on the sleeves. We took a picture with our shirts on.  We took them off before going out for recess.  We can take them home next week Wednesday. Deja said, "They are nice shirts."

A SEA OF YELLOW!

We went to the gym to do a special activity. We danced to the Gummy Bear song. We listened to the Despicable Me song. We walked on the lines on the floor of the gym. Aria said, "We had so much of a blast".

First Grade went to the Survive Alive House today. We were shouting out "Fire!" We were pretending there was a fire in a pretend house. Some of us had to get off of the roof. It wasn't really a high roof. It was a low pretend roof. We had to look for pretend fire and go out a safe way. Aryana said, "It was fun learning at Survive Alive."

Our week by Mrs. G and Mrs. K

We are participating in school wide inquiry unit on government.  Our essential questions (most important) are "What are some of the rules/laws in our lives (ie: homes, classrooms, city, state, country) and what would life be like without them?" and "What are the important people in our world (ie: homes, schools, city, state, country)?" We started with our homes and classrooms and moved on to talking about our city and state. We had a great discussion about our Mayor and our Governor.  We also touched on voting and looked at the upcoming candidates.

We will be sending home an inquiry homework assignment due by the end of the week.

Continue working on those self-help skills such as tying shoes, address and phone number. We will assess those things soon.

We had center time.  We played in housekeeping. We played with a lot of toys.  We went in different rooms. Some of us were playing school in Mrs. Kozlosky's room.  We were playing on our i-pads. Elizabeth said, "It was a blast".

We learned about our state. Our state is Wisconsin.  Scott Walker helps make the rules for our state. He is our govenor. We also learned about our city. Our city is where we live. We live in West Allis. Our Mayor helps make rules for our city. Aubrey said,"It was a fun day for us".