Morning Message

On Friday, I introduced our first Morning Message.  Technology is a wonderful thing as I am able to use our ELMO and project the message onto the white board .  The Morning Message serves many purposes.  I use it to reinforce our popcorn words.  The boys and girls look very carefully at the message for any of our popcorn words.  It is amazing how these words just pop up when we are reading!  They then get to come  up to the white board and draw a "popcorn" shape around the word.  The Morning Message also gives         Punctuation Pirate a chance to come and talk to the boys and girls about different punctuation marks in the message.  Punctuation Pirate also reminds the boys and girls that punctuation marks are very important as they come at the end of a sentence.  Captain Capitalization also pays us a visit as she teaches us all about capital letters and how we find them at the beginning of each sentence.  She also helps us remember that names of people and places begin with capital letters.  The boys and girls become familiar with how a sentence looks.  They also begin to blend and recognize familiar words.  I also get to share positive things I see the boys and girls doing and I write about things that are current in our lives.  I will send home a copy of the Morning Message home with the boys and girls so you can practice finding popcorn words at home.  I plan to do this once or twice a week .  Look for these in your child's BEE book.

Congratulations to Savannah Paulsen for making the closest estimation of the pennies Hannah brought for our Estimation Jar.  Savannah estimated there were 50 pennies.  The actual amount was 65.  Thank you to Hannah and her family for providing items for our Estimation Jar.  Now it will be Savannah's turn to bring something new for us to estimate.

Congratulations also goes to Caden Reed for receiving the Subway Award for the week.  His name was drawn from the PAW basket.  Next week, we will fill it again with the names  of boys and girls who exhibit good character in the classroom.  It doesn't take much to fill the basket as the boys and girls work very hard to get a PAW card. 

Your child's teacher,

Mrs. Straight