2010

WELCOME BACK FRIENDS!

Calvert is alive with excited friends and teachers happy to return to school. I certainly missed everyone and am excited to get back to work this week! I hope that you all had a healthy and happy winter break. I look forward to continued communication throughout the winter.

Happy New Year!

Popcorn Party!!

6th Age Reading had so much fun today as we celebrated learning our popcorn words with a party! We listened to stories as we munched on our treats. Then we played sight word tic-tac-toe!

What a fun day!

7th Age also enjoyed a popcorn party today! We have been working towards mastering our popcorn words all year. We enjoyed our treats while listening to a story.

Then we had a special surprise. One friend brought in a birthday present for Ms. Clark! What fun. Thank you for the special gift!

Next we played our sight word game "slap-it".

Then it was time for a quick game of sight words tic-tac-toe!

Great job readers! I am so proud of you!

A Special Message

7th Age Friends Review Syllabication using the VCCV Pattern

To check comprehension we revisited Syllables today.

We had fun reviewing VCCV pattern words. Once we labeled the vowels and consonants in a word we knew to separate the word in between the two consonants. Rather then separating with a marker as we have done in the past we used a piece of masking tape to cut the word into two syllables. We used blank paper inserted into a clear casing to write on. This made it easy to erase our work, remove the tape, and try a new word. We were quite successful in our efforts today. To check our work we said each word aloud and clapped out the syllables with our hands.

Great job 7th Age readers!

To extend the activity we looked at the syllables in our own names. As we said names we clapped out the syllables we heard. The names with the most syllables in our class contained four! The least only had one syllable. Ms. Clark fell into the one syllable category :)

Calvert Cares!

Amazing!

The Calvert community had an extremely sucessful toy drive!

A Double Birthday in 7th Age Reading

We had so much fun singing "Happy Birthday" to our friends who had their Birthday on the same day!

Friday Book Share

We really enjoyed "The Penguin who wanted to be Different" today in class. This story tells the tale of Dorthy the penguin who makes a very special request to Santa. This request leads Dorthy on an exciting adventure. Thank so much for sharing this fun story!