What a wonderful school year! Thank you for letting me be part of your childrens' lives! Have a wonderful summer and I will see you again in the fall!

They had a great last day.

Almost everyone is done with testing!!!

We compared farm books this week and did some exciting farm centers!

Books

All school books (library and books they have brought home to read to you) need to be sent to school by Monday, May 20st, 2013. 

We will be using books in the classroom to read for group reading!

Thank you!

The kindergarteners finished their tests today! They did an wonderful job and worked very hard! They even got to go out for a recess!

I will post pictures from the farm trip soon!

Here are some pictures from fitness day. The 1st graders had a blast.

1st Grade Fitness Day: Thursday, May 9th in the afternoon

Please wear tennis shoes and a blue shirt. Send a sweatshirt in case it is cold.

We read books from around the world this week. We had suitcases to use during centers where we went to different places around the world.

Here was there math problem this week! They did a wonderful job!

Create an African Village:

There are 13 huts in the village. (Label each hut with a number) Some of the huts are brown and some of the huts are green. There are more green huts then brown huts. (Write a number sentence to show the number brown and green huts) 27 people live the  village. ( Group the people by tens and ones)  There is a fence to keep the animals out of the village. (Make a fence that has a pattern)

Here are the aliens they made!  They are very creative!!

Here are the invitations we made to our aliens.

They learned about seasons and had to contemplate what to do during that season, what to where and write a dates!

We had an assembly today. A chef made smoothies and fruit dip to show the students how to eat healthy! Ask you child about it!

The first graders did an excellent job at their music program! I am so proud of how well they did!

If your child is a boy and would like to join cub scouts, please read!!!

***MEETING TIME CHANGE***

Come Join Cub Scouts! Any boy in K – 4th grade can come to our pack meeting on Tuesday, April 23 at 7:00pm in the multipurpose room. A flyer was sent home with students regarding this, but the time has been changed due to the 1st grade concert being moved to the same night. We will be having an art demonstration and the kids will be participating in an art project. If you have any questions, please contact Cubmaster Chris Oien @ 605-886-8118 or chris@droien.com.

The 1st Grade concert is postponed till tomorrow night (Tuesday, April 23) because of the weather. Please be at the school by 6:15 and go to the lunchroom tomorrow night.

Thank you!

Reminders:

1st grade concert is on Monday April 22nd at 6:30.

School will be all day on April 24th!

Thank you for being interviewed about being a good citizen! They learned so much!

Here is a link to a song that we used while learning about money.

Coins in my hand

Lucas's Dad brought mud puppies in for us to see. 

During the days we were at school this week, we learned about plants. This is our garden. They started with a seed and then made the seedling, the growing plant, and the plant that is ready to pick.

During math, we used seeds to add 10s to numbers. 

On Monday, we had visitors. Kendra's ducks enjoyed their day in the classroom.

Pizza Hut's Book It program ends in March. When your child reaches 10 books, they will now receive a Papa Murphy's card.

Thank you!

Pajama Day!

Wednesday April 10th, 2013

The students earned a pajama day for being quiet in the halls and during class!! They can wear their pajamas all day but please remember to have tennis shoes for P.E.

Thank you!

This week we were detectives. We found missing numbers, sounds, pictures, books.....

We also read Nate The Great. The liked reading a mystery! It is easier to retell when you can't wait for the next page of the book!

1st Grade concert -April 22nd at 6:30p.m.

They are very excited!

We made a rock museum. They learned a lot about rocks!

We also discussed 3-D shapes. Here is a poem we used!

We hypothesized if our rocks would sink or float.

They all sank!

This note will be sent home Friday March 22nd!

For the spring conferences, I will be doing a phone conference on Tuesday April 2nd, 2013. The district does not offer these conferences, but I feel it is important to contact you.Please select 3 times that would work well for me to contact over the phone.

Please return the filled out sheet by Monday, March 25th, 2013.

We are tourists this week. We are traveling the U.S.A. and learning about national monuments. They are using their pretend Iphones to take pictures and document all of the information they have learned!

We have been learning about place value. Here is a video the students have enjoyed!

Ones Tens Hundreds

We analyzed data today using Lucky Charms!

Cooking it up in Mrs. Swenson class!!

Our theme was cooking this week. We learned that cookbooks are another way of finding information. We also made aprons and wrote opposites on them. We practiced our math facts with pretend food!

Kids Cooking with Angelica

We used this video link to write a how to story. They wrote about making microwave popcorn, oatmeal, cereal and peanut butter and jelly!

For Dr. Seuss's Birthday, the students found quotes from stories and then made what they thought could be a character in one of his books!

Enjoy!!

Dr. Seuss quote 1

Dr. Seuss quote 2

Dr. Seuss quote 3

Dr. Seuss quote 4

Dr. Seuss quote 5

Dr. Seuss quote 6

Dt. Seuss quote 7

Dr. Seuss quote 8

Dr. Seuss quote 9

Dr. Seuss quote 10

Dr. Seuss quote 11

Dr. Seuss quote 12

Dr. Seuss quote 13

Reminder:

There are no morning Kindergarten classes on Feb. 27th!

We are learning about timelines and presidents this week. Here is a great blog with lots of Presidential activities on it.

Presidents

Talent Show:  March 21, 2013 – Codington County Extension Complex – Doors open at 5:30 show begins at 6:00. Josh Weyh will MC the event. 

 

Come and eat:  Walking tacos, pizza, nachos, cotton candy, pop, baked goods

        

Practice for acts singing or playing an instrument will be held in 5 minute increments from 4:30-5:30

Prizes:

• $50.00 - 1^st place
• $40.00 - 2^nd place
• $30.00 - 3^rd place
• $20.00 - 4^th place
• $10.00 - 5^th place

People's Choice Prize:  $30.00

The class with the most students in attendance will win a pizza party – So, come out and support your classroom spirit!!!

There will be a short dance after the performances and before the awards are handed out!!

There will be handouts coming home soon!

When: Valentine’s Day February 14th, 2013

Where: Mrs. Swenson’s Classroom

List of students:

1.Allison

2.Aleia

3.Amanda

4.Bailey

5.Cheznie

6.David

7.Derek

8.Ethan

9.Gavin

10.Grace

11.Haeley

12.Jaden

13.Kaedan 

14.Kendra

15.Lucas

16.Quincy

17.Raeanna

18.Tori

19.Torrie

20.Trystan

21.Ty

22.Tyler

Please send an empty Kleenex box and 1 empty egg carton (could be small carton) by Wednesday. We will be using them to make our boxes! Any questions please email or call!!

Here is a link to some ocean web cams.

ocean web cams

We will be using ocean vocabulary to learn about nouns and verbs this week!

The 100th Day!!!

Here is a very candid video of the class making potions. They learned about fractions while doing this!!   

 Potion video

This is the recipe they used!

My potion recipe

Combine

1/2 red circle,

half of a orange circle,

1/4 of a red square,

and one fourth of a orange circle.

Stir and drink while standing on tip-toes.

Here is the setting of our campsite!

Pajama day for our winter camp out was fun!