Archive for February, 2007

Dr. Seuss Week Has Begun!

Mrs. Buck's update for February 28th 2007

You should have seen the Dr. Seuss hat Mrs. Buck was wearing to celebrate our theme of Dr. Seuss!  Happy Dr. Seuss Week!  Our Monday began with a pair of word searches about Dr. Seuss books.  Some of them were tricky, but we figured them out.  Dr. Seuss sure wrote a lot of books!  After […]

Do You Know What Apostolic Means?

Mrs. Buck's update for February 23rd 2007

Our Friday morning began with spelling activities and a cloze worksheet about Thomas Jefferson.  Our Word of the Day was:  “that’s.”  It was so cool that our Word of the Day happened to be a contraction.  After working in our literacy groups, we took our spelling and selection tests.  A review of words with suffixes […]

Stories are Light. Make Some Light!

Mrs. Buck's update for February 22nd 2007

Do you know which president is on which coin?  We do!  We worked with this topic for fun this morning.  After spelling activities and checking our homework, we met with our literacy groups.  Our Word Wall Wizard Word of the Day was:  “terrible.”  In reading, we finished The Woman Who Outshone The Sun.  We predicted […]

Lent Has Begun!

Mrs. Buck's update for February 21st 2007

Today we celebrated Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent. What will you do to prepare for Easter Sunday? Our morning began with some fun activities about presidents. After some spelling activities, we went to library. Mrs. DiMattia read us a beautiful book about a friendship between a hippopotamus and a […]