Fruit and Fries for my fabulous and funny friendly friends!!

Hello Everybody!!
Mrs. J is back and ready for action(says Gavin)! Her horrible, awful, no good very bad headache is GONE!!! Hooray for Mrs. J!!! Today is the lovely F day and we have had a FABULOUS F day! We started our day off a little different because Mrs. J had to take a test this morning. We all got scared because we didn't think she was here, but alas, she showed up and saved the day... again (says Connor)! After Mrs. J showed up, we started with our famous morning meeting. We sang our famous songs, we fixed our famous calendar and we read our famous morning message! It was FUN and FABULOUS! After morning meeting, we did Animal Cards. We finished up our trip to the Bangladesh Mangrove Forest. We learned about the King Cobra and the peafowl. Did you know that a male peafowl is called a peacock and the female peafowl is called a peahen? Way cool! Now, we are traveling to the Pennsylvania Forest. We like it there(says Connor). Hopefully tomorrow's we'll have more time to spend in the forest!

After animal cards, we went to the computer lab for our special. We were able to do any website we know about, like Ticket to Read, VMath Live, Tumblebooks, BrainPop, FunBrain, Poptropica and many others. It was FUN and FABULOUS! After the computer lab, we came back to Mrs. J's room for math. Some friends headed out to go to math with Mrs. Coleman while other friends stayed to do work stations in Mrs. J's room. For our math journal today, the friends had to help Mrs. J from her pups getting into a fight over goldfish! Mrs. J had 50 goldfish and had to split the goldfish into 2 equal groups so that each pup got an equal amount and they wouldn't fight! It was FANTASTIC and FUN! Following math, we got our lunches and headed to the café! It was YUMMY!

After lunch, we came back to the classroom for reading centers. We did something new in reading centers today. We did a matching game on the SmartBoard with synonyms and antonyms. It was really FUN and FANTASTICAL! Some of our second graders got to go on a tour of the third grade classrooms. Then the second graders and third graders got to go to the fourth grade classrooms together. They had a great time and were also able to talk to the third graders to find out about how awesome third grade is going to be next year!

We also got a great treat today from Isana's mom! She brought in lots of yummy fruit and french fries for F day. It was FANTASTIC and really FABULOUSLY FUN! After our fruit snack, we headed outside for some fun at P.E.2. We just came back into the classroom and boy does the air conditioning feel good! We did have lots of fun outside but we are glad to be back in the classroom now writing this blog to you!!

We hope you have a great rest of your F day and happy E day eve to all and to all a good night!!

Love the FUN, FUNNY, and FABULOUS friends in Mrs. J's classroom,
Connor, Ellie, Megan, Ben, José Manuel, Jennifer, Ethan, Caroline, Matthew, Nate, Jamie, Justin, Joshua, Lucy, Isana, Gavin, Makayla, and Audrey

Plus the FUNNY, FABULOUS, and FANTASTIC teachers,
Mrs. J and Mrs. Butler

H Day Headache Attacks Mrs. J!!

Hello my little peeps and fellow followers!
It's so nice to be writing to you again after the attack of the H day headache yesterday! I'm so sorry I had to leave early, my little peeps, but the H day headache attacked Mrs. J hard and there was nothing she could do but go home and fight the headache away with rest, puppies and sleep! I am doing much better today and am hoping you had a great rest of the H day!

We had a pretty good start to the day with our famous morning meeting! We sang our famous songs, fixed our famous calendar and we even read our famous morning message! We were lucky enough to go see Mrs. Cushing two days in a row for a FREE Day in Music! After Music, we came back to Mrs. J's room for Math where we tried something new. We did work stations. We had 5 work stations set up all around the classroom. We had complete independence on what station we wanted to do and when we wanted to do it. It was pretty awesome! We got do the Smart Board station, the dice game station, the flash card station, the station with tubs or the station with V-Math Live on the computers. During our stations, Mrs. J would call us up to work on math skills for next year. The little guys aka kindergarteners are working on carrying in double digit addition and the first graders are working on carrying with three digit addition!! The second graders are working on multiplication and division which is really fun!

After Math we went to lunch and then had reading centers. For reading centers, we did lots of HAPPY things! For science center, we got to do quiz, quiz, trade on our dry erase boards and that was really neat. For activity center, we finished up our following directions game from the day before by using the back of our paper to write down our H words and draw the pictures to go along with our H words. For writing centers, we wrote about what we would do if we could have 5 wishes today. We wrote about what our wishes would be and why we picked the wishes we did. It was awesome!

Well, my little peeps, I think we had a good H day and I'm glad to be writing to you and feeling so much better. I hope you are having a great G day today and have a super fantastic three day weekend! See you again on Tuesday my lovely little peeps!!

All my love,
The Happy Mrs. J

The non-ICKY ice-cream eating IGUANA-like ICEE peeps!

Good morning everybody on the web (says José Manuel again;-)

Happy I Day to you!! How are you doing on this non-ICKY ICE CREAM eating I day? We are all doing ICING-RIFIC today! We just finished our famous morning meeting. We just finished singing our famous songs, fixing our famous calendar and reading our famous morning message! It was ICING-TASTIC! We are writing our blog to you this morning because today is Wednesday and we do not have writing on Wednesdays. Mrs. J did not want to write the blog all by herself so that's why her friends said, "It's okay, Mrs. J, we'll write it with you this morning!" Mrs. J is now a very happy non IGUANA-like teacher!!!

We are getting ready to go to Music today and we are so excited! Today is going to be a FREE DAY in Music!! That means we get to do fun things like play some instruments, sing, dance, play puzzles, play on the SmartBoard and a ton of other really cool things. Lucy says we even get to sit next to any friend we want- that is pretty ICING-RIFIC!!

After Music today, we are going to go to Math. The friends in Mrs. J's room are doing a MYSTERIOUS activity today. She is not going to tell her little ICING peeps what they are going to do because it would take away the surprise! Once we finish up Math for the day, we are going to go to Lunch! WOOHOO for lunch! After lunch, we are going to eat some ICE-CREAM thanks to the awesomeness of Audrey!! YEAH for Audrey!!

For reading centers today, we are going to do some fun stuff. The second grader friends are going to continue reading Helen Keller. They love Helen Keller! For Science today, we are going to make fireworks with milk! It is going to be ICEE-RIFIC!! In activity today, we are going to try and write as many I words as we can think of- how many do you think we can come up with? I think we can come up with 14 or more ;-) (says Ben).

After reading centers, it will be time to go home and get ready for H day tomorrow. So we will sign off with you now and wish you a very early Happy H day eve to all and to all a good night!

Love the really, really IGUAN-like peeps this ICING-RIFIC morning,
Ellie, Connor, Ben, José Manuel, Jennifer, Megan, Caroline, Nate, Matthew, Ethan, Jamie, Justin, Joshua, Lucy, Gavin, Isana, Audrey and Makayla

Plus the ICE PRINCESS teacher Mrs. J and her lovely ICE PRINCESS sidekick Mrs. Butler

Jump roping, Jiving and Jell-O eating jeepers peepers!!

Hello Everybody On the Web (says José Manuel)!!

Happy J Day to you!! We have had a jumping and jiving J day today! We started our day off with our famous morning meeting. We sang our famous songs, we fixed our famous calendar and we read our famous message! After morning meeting, we did Animal Cards! We traveled to the Bangladesh Mangrove Forest and learned about the gray mongoose and we got the animal card for the royal bengal tiger (but we haven't been able to learn about it yet...bummer!) After animal cards, we went to P.E. In P.E. today, we learned all about good foods to eat that are healthy and would be good choices for our bodies. It was JIVE-RIFIC!

After P.E., we went to Math. In Mrs. J's math class we did a Jumping Jeepers on J day math problem. There were seven funky animals in a line and we had to answer questions about their position. It was the same type of problem as K day but a little different because the pictures were animals and not PEEPS! Everybody in Mrs. J's room had fun! Friends from Mrs. Coleman's class did some other things- they wished they were hanging with the other J's peeps!

After Math, we went to lunch and then came back for reading centers. For reading centers today, we did lots of fun things. For science, we wrote about animals and the habitats that they live in. It is set up in a list so it is easy for Mrs. J and other people to read and learn about those specific animals. For activity today, we had to come up with as many words as we could from the line, "Jumping and Jiving in Jeepers' Jungle." It was pretty JIVE-TASTIC! For writing today, we wrote in our family journals which was JIVE-DERFUL and it was something to enjoy (says Caroline). Following reading centers, we went out side for recess. We had Jell-O thanks to Isana! YEAH for Isana! The Jell-O was JIVE-RIFIC!

We are now relaxing in the classroom writing this blog to you. We hope you have had a super, super JIVE-TASTIC and JIVE-RIFIC J day! Happy I Day Eve to all and to all a good night!!

Love the jumping and jiving jeepers peepers in Mrs. J's JIVE-RIFIC class,
Connor, Ellie, Ben, José Manuel, Jennifer, Megan, Ethan, Matthew, Caroline, Nate, Jamie, Justin, Lucy, Joshua, Gavin, Isana, Audrey, and Makayla

Plus the JIVE-RIFIC Mrs. J and her super JIVE-RIFIC sidekick Mrs. Butler

= ONE GREAT CLASS :-) says Connor :-)

'KRAZY' Kids on Krispy Kreme K day!!

Hello Everybody!
Happy K Day! We have had a great K day today!! We started our day off with our famous morning meeting! We sang our famous songs, we fixed our famous calendar and we read our famous message. Then we got to do Animal Cards! We finished up our trip in the Bamboo Forest of China by learning about the Takin and the clouded leopard. It was KRAZY! Did you know that the clouded leopard can climb headfirst down a tree? Did you know that there are four subspecies of the animal Takin? Did you know that 2 of those species are endangered and the other two are vulnerable. We learned that they are endangered and vulnerable because of habitat loss. It makes Mrs. J really sad. It is so KRAZY!!

After animal cards, we went to the library to preview the Book Fair!! It was so KRAZY! We saw lots of books that we wanted to buy and can't wait to go to the book fair with our moms and dads. Did you know that the book fair is going to be open on Thursday night because of the big Art Show? That would be a great time to get books, have fun and look at all the pretty artwork! Bring your moms, dads, sisters, brothers and anybody else for this KRAZY fun time!

After library, we went to the computer lab to play some Ticket to Read. It was KRAZY!! Then we came back to the classroom to get ready for Math. In Mrs. J's room today, we did a KRAZY K day puzzle. We had to answer questions about little people Mrs. J put in a line. We had to figure out their position in line and then answer tricky questions about who was next to who and what position they were in line. It was KRAZY!! After Math, it was time for lunch and boy was that KRAZY! Lunch is always crazy but today is was KRAZY like a K day KRAZY!!

We came back from lunch and had reading centers. For Activity today, we finished up our follow directions game with words that start with the letter K. It was KRAZY fun (says Connor)! For Science today, we did a word-search with some of the words we have learned in science this year. There were words like energy, positive, lightning, brain, heart, rain, negative and rainforest. It was KRAZY fun!! For writing today, we wrote about our weekends and how KRAZY they were. We sat in the library for library center and read lots of KRAZY books!! What a KRAZY bunch of centers on this KRAZY K day!!

Well, we just finished our yummy Krispy Kreme donuts thanks to the wonderful little peep, Gavin!! Rock on, Gavin!!! It is now time for us to wrap up our blog to you and hope that you continue to have a KRAZY and Kid-rockin' K day! Happy J Day Eve to all and to all a good night!

Love from all the KRAZY, Krispy-Kreme eating, Kind, Kiddos in Mrs. J's KRAZY class,
Connor, Ellie, Ben, Megan, José Manuel, Jennifer, Ethan, Matthew, Jamie, Caroline, Nate, Justin, Lucy, Joshua, Gavin, Isana, and Makayla

Plus the super KRAZY Mrs. J and her SUPER,SUPER KRAZY sidekick Mrs. Butler

A Letter from the LAUGHABLE, LOVABLE, LIVELY, AND LIKABLE peeps in Mrs. J's room!

Hello Everybody!
Happy L Day to you! We have had a great L day today! We started our day off with our famous morning meeting. We sang our famous songs, we fixed our famous calendar, and we read our famous morning message! We also got to read two Tumblebooks this morning!! We got to read "The Lima Bean Monster" and "Little Pea." They were great books (says Connor and Joshua). After we watched our Tumblebooks, we went to the library with some of Mrs. Jones and Johnson's friends because all the multi-age second graders went to Camp Crystal... Connor stayed with Mrs. J's class because Mrs. J said she would miss him TOO MUCH if he left her today!!

After library, we came back to Mrs. J's room for Math. Today we played "The Great Dice Challenge" game! We got to play a challenge round and then the Super Bowl and Mr. Joshua Brogan won the whole game! Way to go, Joshua! After Math, we went to lunch! Lunch was extra good today because it was pizza day! Everybody loves pizza!

After lunch, we came back to Mrs. J's room for centers. For Activity today, we got to play on Ticket to Read or Earobics! For Science, we finished up the work in our journals and the friends who already had all their work finished got to have a FREE center! Caroline, Isana, and Jamie all loved their FREE center today! For writing today, we wrote about our shares. We wrote about our shares on spider maps. Mrs. J really loves spider maps because it makes our writing neat, organized and fun (says Connor).

We finished up centers and then got ready for recess. We had a LOVELY snack today of graham crackers! We LOVE graham crackers! We are now writing this blog to you and we hope you have had as LOVELY and LIVELY a day as we have! And a Happy K Day Eve, Eve, Eve to all and to all a good night ;-)

Love the really LOVABLE peeps in Mrs. J's LIVELY classroom,
Gavin, Connor, Joshua, Caroline, Jamie, Makayla, Audrey, Nate, Justin, Isana, and Matthew

Plus the LOVELY Mrs. J and her very LOVELY sidekick and her even more LOVELY mom, Mrs. Shannon

M Day Magic brings Mrs. J's peeps MUFFINS!

Hello Everybody!!
Happy M Day! We hope you have had a great M day so far! We have had a MARVELOUS M day today! We started our day off with our famous morning meeting! We sang our famous songs, we fixed our famous calendar and we read our famous message! After morning meeting, we went to Art! We picked two pieces of Art to put in the Big Art Show next Thursday here at Littlewood. We put the rest of our art work in our folder and then we decorated our folders and made paper. Art was really MARVELOUS, MAGICAL, AND MAGNIFICENT today!

After Art, we came back to Mrs. J's room for Math. Some friends left to go to Mrs. Coleman's room for Math while the rest of the friends stayed in Mrs. J's room. In Mrs. J's room today we had to help her solve a MEGA MATH Problem. Mrs. J's problem was to help her separate 24 muffins into two equal groups so that her two silly puppies don't get into a fight. Everybody did a great job and found out that the answer was each pup gets 12 muffins and there was no fighting between the puppies! Now Mr. J didn't get any muffins so he wasn't so happy but at least the puppies were happy :-)

After Math, we went to lunch!! Hip, Hip, Hooray for Lunch! After lunch, we came back for reading centers. Today in activity, we followed Mrs. J's silly M day directions. For Science, we got to play quiz, quiz, trade! We love quiz, quiz, trade! For writing, we wrote letters to our friends around Littlewood. Mrs. J even wrote a love letter to Mr. J!! For library center today, we read, read, and read some more! It was really fun in centers today!! Some of the friends that go to Mrs. J's table for reading group even got to go on Ticket to Read. Those were some happy little peeps and Gavin says that he even bought the lava lamp! (whole class is laughing!)

We just got back from recess and we are now writing our MAGICAL, MARVELOUS, MAGNIFICENT AND MUFFIN-RIFIC blog to you! We hope you continue to have a MAGICAL AND MARVELOUS M day! And a Happy L Day Eve to all and to all a good night!

Love the very, very, very MUFFIN-RIFIC, MIRACULOUS, MONKEY-TASTIC peeps,
Gavin, Caroline, Isana, Audrey, Jamie, Justin, Makayla, and Jennifer

Plus,
the MARVELOUS AND MAGNIFICENT Mrs J, her MARVELOUS sidekick Mrs. Butler and her really, really, MAGICAL MOM!