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!

Celebrating being NEAT on N day!

Hello Everybody!
Happy N Day! We hope you had a NEAT N day today! We had a really NEAT day today because we got to start our day off with clubs. This was our last clubs session but boy was it NEAT!! We did all sorts of things like decorate T-shirts, make bead necklaces, cook fancy food and make snakes out of ties! We were just NUTTY about clubs!

After Clubs, we went to Music and had fun with the beautiful Mrs. Cushing! We had a really NEAT time with her! Following Music, we came back to Mrs. J's room to get ready for Math. The friends in Mrs. J's room had a really NEAT time in Math because they got to play concentration on the SmartBoard. They also got to play the Vortex game! It was a really, really NEAT day in Mrs. J's room!

We went to lunch after Math and then came back to the room for reading centers. For science, we made up quiz questions on the different habitats we are learning about. We are going to try and stump some of our friends! For activity, we got to play on Ticket to Read or Earobics and it was the NEATEST thing ever! For writing, we finished up our club journals. They came out beautiful and really NEAT!

Well, that's about all the NEAT things we did today and we hope you continue to have a NEAT N day! Write with you again tomorrow on the magical M day! Happy M Day Eve!
Love,
Mrs. J and her NEAT peeps

Outrageously, Orange and Only Orderly Peeps rockin' on O Day!

Hello Everybody!
Happy O Day to you! We have had an outrageously orange day today! We did our famous morning meeting where we sang our famous songs, we fixed our famous calendar and we read our famous morning message! We also got to do Animal Cards this morning! We love it when the Internet is working!! We traveled to the Bamboo Forest of China this morning. We're still pretty tired from our flight back but we did learn about the golden monkey, the golden pheasant and the panda. Did you know that a panda eats for 14 hours a day?!!!!!! That's OUTRAGEOUS (says the whole crazy class)! That means that a panda sleeps for 10 hours a day- WOW! After Animal Cards, we went to P.E. We did Wacky Relays today. We had to complete a wacky obstacle course holding either a fish or a chicken!!! That's OUTRAGEOUS (thinks Mrs. J ;-)

After P.E., we had Math. For Math today, the friends in Mrs. J's room had to complete an OUTRAGEOUS pattern puzzle. Mrs. J tried to stump the class but she did not succeed. Everyone got the answers right and then they did the bonus! It took some friends a long time but they all got their skittle in the end! It was OUTRAGEOUS! Then we went to lunch. Following lunch, we came back to the classroom for centers. For Science today, we did a Venn Diagram where we compared two habitats. Everybody did a great job! For activity today, we did a following directions game. Friends had to write words on their papers that started with the letter O and then follow the directions on the board. For example, draw an octopus above the word octopus. It was really OUTRAGEOUS and fun! Finally, it was time for recess! We had an OUTRAGEOUS snack today! We had chocolate covered marshmallows which looked kind of like "O's" and we had orange (gold fish) plus we had some Chex because they looked kind of orange too. It was really an OUTRAGEOUS snack! We loved it!

We went to recess and it was OUTRAGEOUS! We are now writing to you and want to thank you for all the comments you leave on our blog. We love blogging and we love getting comments! We hope you have a great rest of your O day and stay tuned for more blogging tomorrow when we join you again on N day! Happy N Day Eve!

Love the OUTRAGEOUS and ORANGY peeps,
Ellie, Connor, Megan, Ben, Jennifer, José Manuel, Ethan, Matthew, Jamie, Nate, Caroline, Justin, Lucy, Joshua, Gavin, Isana, Audrey, and Makayla

Plus, the ORDINARY and not-ORANGY,
Mrs. J and her super OUTRAGEOUS sidekick Mrs. Butler

Puzzling, Peppy, Playful and Pretty Perfect Peeps on P Day!

Hello Everybody!
Happy P Day to you! We have had a PRETTY PERFECT P day today! We started our day off with our famous morning meeting! We sang our famous songs, we fixed our famous calendar and we also read our famous morning message!! We didn't get to do Animal Cards this morning because the Internet was not acting so PERFECT for us! We couldn't even see Mrs. J's PLAYFUL pups! We did get to see a picture of Gavin's hot-dog dog and his cat! We also got to see a picture Joshua's pet snake, Princess Petunia, and Chihuahua, Junior! Nate also showed us a picture of his pet cats, Tigger and Frederica! It was PERFECT fun to share our PETS!

We went to the library for our special today and then we came back for Math. For Math in Mrs. J's room today, we did a really neat Math Journal question. It was called The P Day Pattern Puzzle! The friends in Mrs. J's room had to figure out the types of patterns she wanted and then they had to make a pattern puzzle for her! It was PERFECTLY PATTERN-RIFIC!

After Math we headed to the cafeteria for lunch! YEAH for lunch! It was PERFECTLY yummy in every way! After lunch, we came back to the classroom for reading centers. The friends at Mrs. J's table had to take a reading test today. It was PUZZLING... only PARTIALLY PUZZLING (says Connor)! In activity, we got to play on Ticket to Read or Earobics. For science, we did a really neat experiment on camouflage. Mrs. J cut out pipe cleaners for us and then Mrs. Allen spread them out on the playground and then we had to look for them. We came back and counted how many pipe cleaners we had and then we did the whole experiment again to make sure we found all of the pipe cleaners. It was really fun!!

We just got back inside the classroom from P.E.2 and the weather was PERFECTLY splendid! It was breezy and cool! It was PERFECT and just how we like it (says Connor and Ben).
We hope you have had a fantastic P day and were able to wear your pajamas to work today! Or you could have worn pink or purple with your pants like Mrs. J and that would be PERFECT (says the walking dictionary Connor ;-)
Thanks for reading our blog with us and we'll write to you again tomorrow! Happy O Day EVE!
Love,
Connor, Ellie, José Manuel, Jennifer, Megan, Ben, Ethan, Nate, Caroline, Matthew, Jamie, Justin, Lucy, Gavin, Isana, and Makayla

Plus the PERFECT and PRETTY,
Mrs. J and her more than PERFECT sidekick Mrs. Butler

The Quick, Quirky, and not real Quiet but Quacky peeps!

Hi Everybody!

Happy Q day everybody! We have had a QUICK Q day today! We started our day off with our famous morning meeting. We sang our famous songs, we fixed our famous calendar and we also read our famous morning message. After morning meeting, we finished up learning about the Serengeti. We got two new animal cards! We got the African Elephant animal card and the Plains Zebra animal card. They are QUIRKY! We learned that the African Elephant fights with its' head and tusks and it can weigh as much as 12,000 pounds- YIKES! We learned that the Plains Zebra can run as fast as 40 mph! We also learned that Plains Zebras go on a "Great Migration" with antelopes, wildebeests, and other animals. The leader zebra that leads the animals is called a stallion. Finally, we got to hear the sound that a Plains Zebra makes and it sounds like bubbles echoing- it's QUIRKY!

After animal cards, we watched part of a Jeff Corwin movie! We followed Jeff around Spain to learn about Donana National Park which has five habitats in its' park! They have a wetlands, they have a sand dunes, they have an ocean, they have a forest and they have mountains! It was really QUITE cool! Finally, it was time for Math. The friends in Mrs. J's class played "The Great Dice Challenge." Ben, José Manuel, Gavin, and Nate were our winners! We had QUITE a lot of fun!

LUNCHTIME!

After lunch, we came back to have reading centers. Today at Mrs. J's table, we all took our spelling test. There were lots of friends who got perfect scores! Ellie, Connor, Megan, José Manuel, Caroline, Isana, Audrey and Gavin all got perfect scores!! Way to go, friends! It was QUITE simple (says Connor but no one else agrees with him ;-)

For writing today, we filled in spider maps about our shares. A spider map really helps keep our writing organized and neat. Spider map writing is really fun too!

RECESS!!!!

After recess, we came back into the classroom and are writing to you right now! We have had a very QUICK but fun Q day today! Oh and we can't forget that we had some yummy QUAKER granola bars from Gavin! Yeah for granola bars and Gavin!

We hope you have had a QUACKY, QUIRKY AND QUIET day too! Join us next Monday for P day! We are going to wear pajamas, bring pictures of our pets and eat popcorn- Happy P Day Eve, Eve, Eve or triple Eve!!

Love all the QUIRKY and not- QUIET peeps,

Ellie, Connor, Megan, José Manuel, Ben, Ethan, Caroline, Matthew, Nate, Jamie, Justin, Joshua, Isana, Gavin, Audrey, and Makayla

S day slips in and out with a SPLASH!!

Hello Everybody!

What a SUPER S day we had today!! We started our day off a little different today with Clubs. We LOVE Clubs! Every friend in Multi-Age gets to pick a club and then they get to go to that club for four sessions. Some of the clubs are cooking club, springtime crafts club, human body club and many others! Clubs are SUPER and we learn SO man SUPER things! After Clubs, we got to go to Music with the lovely Mrs. Cushing. We love Mrs. Cushing and her class is so fun because we get to SING SONGS and play SUPER instruments. Thanks, Mrs. Cushing, for making music so fun! After Music, we came back to the classroom for Math. In Math today, we played "The Great Dice Challenge" game. Gavin was the teacher which meant that he got to roll the dice on the Smart Board while the friends in each grade level took turns getting to answer the questions on their dry erase boards. After every grade level gets a turn at answering 20 questions, we have a SUPER Bowl and today the SUPER bowl was extra SUPER! Our first place winner was José Manuel, our second place winner was Gavin and our third place winner was Ben, Way to go, friends!!

After Math, we went to lunch and had a SUPER and SPLENDID time there! We came back to the classroom to do reading centers. For centers today, we did some really SUPER things! For Science, we got to play Quiz, Quiz, Trade where we trade quiz cards with our friends. The cards have questions about animals and habitats on them so we love quizzing our friends on them. We have learned about six habitats so far, the Amazon Rainforest, the Florida Everglades, the Canadian Rockies, the Serengeti, the Sonoran Desert and the Australian Grasslands. Maybe you can come to our classroom one day and we can quiz you on all the things we have learned... it would be SUPER!!

We finished up our S day eating strawberries and being very studious students! We hope you had a SUPER S day too and can't wait to write to you again tomorrow! Happy R Day Eve!

Love,

Mrs. J and her really, really, really, SUPER students

Tales from the Terrific, Talented and Tremendous little Tweets!!

Hi Everybody!

Today is T Day and guess what?? It's T day on Tuesday (says Connor)! We had a TERRIFIC T day! You want to know what we did today? Well, we're going to tell you anyway! We started the day off with our famous Morning Meeting. We sang our famous songs, we fixed our calendar and we counted another ones block and found out that today is the 160th day of school! So, we deleted all our ones blocks and added another tens block to the pack. It was pretty terrific! After Morning Meeting, we went to P.E. where we played a game called, Giant's Cave (says the class so loud that Mrs. J hurt her ears!) Gavin and Isana were the giants and the rest of the class were running around the field with flags on their waists for Gavin and Isana to catch them. It was really terrific! After P.E., we came back to the classroom all hot and sweaty and it was terrific!! We did Math after P.E. In Mrs. J's class, we did a really neat Math Journal question (Connor says it was trivial but Mrs. J thinks it was significant) where the friends had to find things in the classroom that had more than 4 vertices and 4 sides and they also got to do some bonus questions! They were hard but they were also TERRIFIC! The friends who completed the whole challenge got two skittles for all their hard work- it was TERRIFIC!

Finally, it was time for lunch! We all had a TERRIFIC lunch! After lunch, we had centers and it was TERRIFIC! For Activity, we wrote about a person we admire the most and Mrs. J got a lot of admirations(says Connor) from her PEEPS! She felt very happy and TERRIFIC (says her peeps)!! In Science, we made a new flip-book for the newest habitat we are learning about. Our flip-book is about the Serengeti and it is TERRIFIC! Once centers were over, we had P.E.2 also known as the TERRIFIC recess (again says Connor)! Now we are finally relaxing in the classroom writing this blog to you. It feels TERRIFIC to be writing to you and the temperature in the classroom feels really TERRIFIC after a hot day on the playground!

Well, that's about all the TERRIFIC writing we have for you today and we hope you have also had a TERRIFIC, TALENTED, AND TREMENDOUS T day Tuesday!

Love the TERRIFIC and TANGY Tweets,

Gavin, Isana, Audrey, Makayla, Ethan, Caroline, Nate, Matthew, Jamie, Lucy, Justin, Joshua, Connor, Ellie, José Manuel, Jennifer, Megan, and Ben

Plus the TERRIFIC, TALENTED and NOT TANGY teachers,

Mrs. J and her really really, TERRIFIC side-kick Mrs. Butler

The Unselfish, Understanding, United States of America color wearing Peeps!

Hello Everybody on the Blog!

Welcome back to our blog for U day! Today we had an awesome day! We started the day out with our famous Morning Meeting. We sang our favorite songs and we filled in the dates on the calendar. We also read the morning message and we added another ones block to our counting the days we have been in school. Can you believe that we've been in school for 159 days??? That's CCCCCCCRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAZZZZZZZYYYYYY!

We were supposed to go to the library for our special today but the teacher was absent so we went to the computer lab instead. We played on Ticket To Read and it is a really fun game (says Connor). We were also lucky enough to watch some more of our Jeff Corwin movie. He is such a funny guy! We got to see a wallaby today and a blue-tongued skink! Did you know that the blue-tongued skink can make itself flat as part of its adaptation and camouflage?

After computer lab, we came back to the classroom for Math. The friends in Mrs. J's class did a really neat Math Journal question. They had to find things in the classroom that were cubes, cylinders, rectangular prisms, spheres and the bonus was having to find cones and pyramids! It was pretty tough but one friend managed to find them all and was rewarded the first new skittle- way to go, Gavin! Following Math, we went to lunch where we devoured our food!

Next came centers! For centers today, we wrote about how wonderful we were to our mothers on Mother's Day and for Science, we finished up all our unfinished work. For activity, we finished working on our Spider Maps. A spider map helps make our writing more organized and easier to make sentences. It makes it neater too (says Nate).

We just finished up a lovely time on the .....("Justin Byrd come to the office please"... says the office)... now back to what we were talking about!!! We had fun on the playground and now we are busy writing our blog to you. Thank you to all the wonderful peeps who have been leaving comments for us- WE LOVE COMMENTS!!

Have a understanding, unselfish and unbelievably awesome rest of your U day!

Love the peeps and peep-etts in Mrs. J's unboring (Connor says) class,

Connor, Ellie, Megan, José Manuel, Ben, Lucy, Joshua, Nate, Ethan, Matthew, Jamie, Caroline, Gavin, Isana, and Makayla

Plus the lovely Mrs. J and her amazing sidekick Mrs. Butler

Violin Concert takes place on V day in Mrs. J's room!!!!!

Hello Everybody!!

We are writing to you this afternoon after just listening to our lovely teacher, Mrs. J, playing the violin! She gave us a vibrant violin concert complete with the Indiana Jones Theme song (specifically for a friend named Ethan). This song was dedicated to Ethan because of his love for Indiana Jones and his amazing production of Lego Indiana Jones movies! We loved the concert!! We learned all about the violin and she even let us touch the horse hairs on her bow!! It was a way cool experience!!

We also did Animal Cards today! We just finished up the Canadian Rockies habitat. We learned about an animal called the Pika. Did you know his nickname is called, "Rock Rabbit?" We thought that was pretty cool. Then we took Smart Board Airways over to the Serengeti and we learned some interesting facts about the giraffe. Did you know that a giraffe's tongue is 18 inches long???? That's like the length of our arms!!!!! We decided to make a human giraffe in the classroom (Ellie, Gavin, Joshua, Caroline, Ethan, and Isana). Did you know that a giraffe can be almost 18 feet tall? We walked along our friends to make sure we got the measurements right! It was really fun!!

Before we started Math, Mrs. J lead us in some yoga! We love doing yoga before Math! After Math, we went to lunch and then we came back for centers! In writing center today, we wrote about our shares using a Spider Map. It was pretty cool because it taught us to organize our writing to put it into sentences easier. For activity, we got to play on Ticket to Read. In Science, we finished up some of our unfinished work. We also took our Spelling Tests today. There were a bunch of us that got perfect scores!! Ellie, Megan, Connor, Ethan, Justin, Gavin, Makayla, and Audrey all got perfect scores!!

Well everybody, we are going to go watch a movie about the Australian Grasslands with Jeff Corwin- we LOVE Jeff Corwin!! We hope you have a wonderful weekend and we'll write to you again on Monday!!

Love all of us peeps,

Connor, Ellie, Megan, Ben, José Manuel, Jennifer, Ethan, Caroline, Nate, Matthew, Jamie, Justin, Lucy, Joshua, Gavin, Isana, Audrey and Makayla

Plus the lovely Mrs. J

The Wild, Wonderful, and Wacky W day tales!

Hello Everybody!

Happy W Day to you! We have had a Wonderful W day today! We started our Wonderful W day off with our famous Morning Meeting. During Morning Meeting, we sing songs, we put the calendar pieces together, we read the morning message and we countdown to the last days of school with tens blocks. After Morning Meeting, we had some fun doing Animal Cards!! WE LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, Animal Cards!!! Today we went to the Canadian Rockies for our new habitat. We learned about an animal named the Big Horned Sheep. Did you know that the male big horned sheep have horns that curl and weigh 30 pounds?!! We figured out that it would be like attaching Gavin to Mrs. J's forehead- CRAZY!! We finished up Animal Cards and headed out to our next favorite place, the Art Classroom! Today in Art, we put some animals in the tall, tall grass. We came back to the classroom after Art and worked on Math. We did something really cool in Math today. Mrs. J tried to trick us with her following directions game but we were too smart for that! We got everything right and we even did the bonus where we had to measure 6 things, draw a picture of them and label them. We got a jellybean for our prize!

Lunchtime finally came and we LOVE lunch! After lunch we came back to the classroom for centers! In centers today we had lots of fun. For writing center, we wrote letters to our friends our Littlewood. We hope to stay the Littlewood Letter Writing Champions! In activity today, we made cards for the wonderful Mom's in our lives. WE LOVE OUR MOMS SO MUCH! In library, we read books, more books, and more books! In science, we played a super fun game called Quiz, Quiz, Trade where we quiz our friends on things we have learned so far about habitats. We love playing Quiz, Quiz, Trade!

After centers comes our second favorite time of the day, P.E.2! We got to eat lots and lots of watermelon! We ran around the playground, climbed on the monkey bars and some of our friends even tried to camouflage in the sand!

We are going to finish up our day today by writing our blog to you, readers. We had a great day today and can't wait until V day tomorrow- Mrs. J even said she's going to bring her violin to play for us! WOW, Mrs. J- you better practice tonight!!

Love the wild, wacky peeps who wrote you this post,

Connor, Ellie, Megan, José Manuel, Ben, Jennifer, Jamie, Joshua, Lucy, Makayla, Nate, Audrey, Justin, Gavin, Isana, Matthew, Caroline, Ethan and your silly Mrs. J

eXciting X Day in Mrs. J's class!

Hello again friends and families!!

Happy X day to you all!! We have started our X day out in a very eXciting and eXcellent fashion! We are doing clubs this morning and are making all sorts of neat things for our Mom's that we love so much and cooking till our little fingers are so sore that they can't move anymore! After clubs we get to go to Music which is one of our favorite specials classes. We love Mrs. Cushing and we love to get up, move around, and dance with the music! After Music, we will do Math. In Math today, we are going to be trying to solve Mrs. J's tricky shopping spree challenge which helps us work more on learning about money. We're also going to be snacking on CheX mix because it is X day of course ;-)

After Math, we get to go to lunch and we love lunch! Following our fun time in lunch, we come back to the classroom for more work in reading centers. We love, love, love reading centers!! On Wednesdays in reading centers, we write in our clubs journals for writing time. We tell Mrs. J all about the fun things we did in our club because poor Mrs. J doesn't get to go to a club! In activity center today, we get to play on Ticket to Read which is a reading game online that lets us read stories and answer questions to earn tickets. We're trying to be the class at Littlewood who collects the most tickets- do you think we can do it? Mrs. J thinks we can do it!! In Science, we are going to finish working on our adaptation books. We are making up fantasy animals and writing about how they would adapt to their habitat. It is really fun and we have some really cool animals right now like a "Sharibou" and an "Womlizaroo." We can't wait to finish them and take them home for you to read them!!

Well, I guess we're going to go for this morning but we wanted to say hi and tell you to have the most eXciting, eXcellent, eXhilarating, and eXtreme X day!!!!

Love Mrs. J's eXcellent peeps,

Connor, Ellie, Megan, José Manuel, Jennifer, Ben, Caroline, Ethan, Matthew, Nate, Jamie, Lucy, Justin, Joshua, Gavin, Isana, Audrey and Makayla

26 days and counting!!

Hello Friends and Families!

We are celebrating the last days of school with the famous alphabet countdown! Yesterday was the first day of alphabet countdown and we wore zebra colors and zig-zagged at recess! We had tons of fun with the letter Z and today we are all decked out in our yellow shirts, socks, pants and yellow accessories! We are going to be yodeling at recess so watch out if you're close to Littlewood because you will definitely hear us :-) We are also going to be writing about a yellow, yelling yak and making sure to eat some yummy snacks!

We decided to start this blog so that we can tell you all about the fun things we are doing here at school to celebrate the last days. We are currently working on writing letters to pen pals in Burkina Faso, making new animals to add to the animals around the world and we're having a great time measuring all sorts of things around Mrs. J's classroom! Please feel free to write to us at anytime and on any day! We love to hear from you and we want you to be part of the fun too!

Love from the crazy peeps in Mrs. J's amazing multi-age classroom,

Megan, Connor, José Manuel, Ben, Ellie, Jennifer, Ethan, Matthew, Nate, Jamie, Caroline, Justin, Lucy, Joshua, Gavin, Audrey, Isana, and Makayla