Boosterthon!

The "Lighning Pom-Bitos" have started our Boosterthon road trip on the "Highway USA"!  We are already up to $5 per lap pledged. Our team has a lofty goal of raising at least $80 per lap. If we can reach that goal, our team coaches (Ms. Pomeroy, Mrs. Sambito, & Ms. Murphy) will dye their hair CRAZY colors!!!!! 

You should have recieved your child's Pledge book which contains their personal log-in code for www.funrun.com.  This is where you will enter all pledges for your child. No money needs to be collected now- you'll get information about money collection after the run.  If you'd like to use social media to raise awareness for our fundraiser, follow the directions below:

How-To Helpers

For the past 2 weeks, our class has been writing how-to papers, also called functional or procedural writing. This writing enables the author to be the teacher by being very specific in their details for their readers. Here are a few thing our class has learned about how-to writing:
1. Pick a topic you are an expert at.
2. Plan your steps in order.
3. Think of a great beginning.
4. List your items that you need to do the task.
5. Use transition words (first, next, then, last/finally).
6. Draw a matching picture for each step.
7. Add labels to the pictures.
8. Write a great ending!!!!
Here is a great example from our friend Addison! Help your kids by asking them how to do things that they do everyday and having them explain it to you in words.

HENRY COLE!!!!

Today our children got to experience meeting an author/illustrator at school! Henry Cole presented his work and did demonstrations of how he illustrates to our kindergarten and first graders. Our students were SO inspired that upon our return from the assembly, they asked if we could begin writer's workshop early....ahhhhhhh every teacher's wish! All we want is for our children to love writing and illustrating stories they want to tell, and the inspiration that Henry Cole gave our students today makes our hearts soar! Thank you Mr. Cole, for the inspiration our kids needed and wanted!

Happy 100th Day!

Our sweet little kindergarteners are 100 days smarter! Check out some of our awesome 100-collections and our special 100th day hats ;)

Only 80 days more days to get ready for 1st grade!

Scrumptious Small Moment Writing

Our students have diligently been working on creating small moments; writing that is a one time, one place moment about themselves. Mrs. Sambito and I have tried to give them a visual by having them envision their writing like an Oreo cookie...a crunchy engaging beginning, a double stuffed detail middle, and a crispy ending that leaves us with a feeling. Here is the rubric we use and our Oreo cookie chart to help the kids concoct the most delicious small moments!

Welcome Ms. Murphy!!!

Our class is so lucky to have an intern this semester....we welcome Hannah Murphy, from FSCJ, into our classroom to work along side us and enter into the most rewarding profession there is! We hope she will learn a lot and love this job as much as we do:)

Busy, busy, busy

Please excuse our absence from blogger we have been SO busy in our classroom lately! Here are a few things we have been doing over the past month in our classroom:

1) pumpkin unit- we were studying pumpkins throughout the month of October in reading, writing, math, & science. Ask your student what interesting things they learned about pumpkins!

2) Iroquois tribe- this month we are leaning all about the Iroquois tribe, comparing them to ourselves, learning about the Hopi, Lenape, Sioux, Inuit, Nootka, Seminole, & Nez Perce tribes and comparing them to the Iroquois tribe, & getting ready to learn about their fables and responding to them.