What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up?

What do you want to be when you grow up? Every day we will be adding the students digital presentations to our website. Hope you enjoy reading what they learned and created  Just follow the link below!

http://www.rhinelander.k12.wi.us/faculty/LieckJoE/reading.cfm

Community Helper Research Begins

Three Inquiry Questions

The students use their close reading strategies as they dig deep into their research of their chosen Community Helper.

Have Fun Reviewing Place Value with these Songs and Activities

Fact Dash - Practice Addition and Subtraction Facts

http://www.mhschool.com/math/common/assets/FactDash.html

98 Pink Elephants - Understand the Tens and Ones Place

http://www.mhschool.com/math/common/ebook_assets/MH_Math_songs/gm/grade1/index.html?songID=math_song_98_pink_elephants

Grouping by Tens - Build Understanding of Place Value

http://www.mhschool.com/math/common/ebook_assets/MH_Math_songs/gm/grade1/index.html?songID=math_song_grouping_by_10

Vocabulary Review for Chapter 5

http://www.mhschool.com/mmh_games/content/na2013_games/g1/c5/index.html

Brrr It Is So Cold Outside

Looking for a good story?  Read about Emma in the story Snow Day.  There are activities to go with it too :)

https://docs.google.com/a/rhinelander.k12.wi.us/file/d/0B_GbzxUjeMGGSHNsUU9vU25jNlU/edit

Also don't forget about the wonderful online resources on our Distirct Tehnology page!

http://www.rhinelander.k12.wi.us/k2resources.cfm

Why I Do What I Do?

Today as parents gathered into the classroom to listen to their child or grandchild perform a part in our Reader's Theater with excited faces it reminded me that this is why I do what I do.  It is because I want children to succeed.  I want families to be part of their child's education.  I want them to feel like they can come into the classroom anytime, call me, message me, etc ...
Thank you!
As the wind chill kept us from going outside AGAIN today, I went to the storage closet and brought in some toys from Kindergarten.  The children were ecstatic! Dinosaurs were roaming, the child care center was busy with new babies and log homes were being built.  As I looked at these little ones, I reflected on how much they do!  THEY ARE SIMPLY AND HONESTLY AWESOME!
In our busy lives we sometimes forget to reflect, to thank someone, to just step back & watch.
Thank you ~ to the families, past and present, who have made me who I am today, who have believed in their children and supported education!

Arctic Animal Researchers Hard at Work!

The animals have been chosen and the researching has begun.  The students ask themselves three questions that they were curious about before they read their books about their animals.  Then they used "close reading strategies" to answer their questions.  Finally they are putting together an Arctic Animal slide show using Biteslide.  These students are so amazing :)

Homophone Hubbub and Write Show and Share Tomorrow Morning

The students have been having fun "playing with words" for this Reader's Theater!

Come check it out tomorrow morning, Friday at 8:30, in the classroom.