Author's Tea

Our author's tea was a fine opportunity to discuss child-created literature. Thank you for celebrating reading and writing with us!

I will post the rest of the pictures Mrs. Weyhrich took to www.flickr.com/missreedsclass.

Eagle Creek/Fish Hatchery

It was a wonderful field trip. The salmon spawning was the best example our biologist friend (and father of Rowan), Dan Vassar(sp?) had seen in years!
For the complete set of pictures please visit www.flickr.com/missreedsclass. To download pics of your child, you can double click on the photo, then drag it to your desktop (mac) or right click and copy to your desktop (PC).

PS. I am currently at home recovering from an emergency gallbladder removal. The fabulous, capable and patient Miss Bekah Tucker will be making our classroom work this week. Miss Tucker was Mrs. Hanes' student teacher in the fall and has been Mrs. Chiu's long term sub in both the spring and fall of 09. The kids know her, the school knows her, and I am so grateful she was available all week. Please support her as much as you can. I am very much looking forward to seeing everyone next week. - Best, Miss Reed

Drama Photos!

These are a few photos from Drama time! A favorite time for children to engage in imaginative play whilst participating in our classroom community.
The basic plot of the play is as follows: A mother and a father go fishing in a rowboat for salmon. A villain keeps a princess in a tower. A dog says woof woof! Everybody bows. It is a little absurdist, but gives children the opportunity to direct, act, speak in public, perhaps more importantly, to play a role and receive praise.

Shape portraits

Last week, we gathered pics to make class book of shape portraits and played a game to gain familiarity with the tens and ones places.

Salmon Studygroups Celebration

Salmon Study Groups Celebration

To introduce the salmon lifecycle, we worked in K-5 teams through early October. Small groups of K-5th grade students from Chiu, Hanes and Ree'ds classes each took on a research project on a stage of the life cycle: Egg, Alevin, Fry, Smolt, Adult and Spawner. We celebrated the completion f our Salmon Life Cycle Presentations with a Science Fair Style Party in the cafeteria. Students hunted for information on each of the stages of the lifecycle. The first picture is a skit from my fry group. The bigger fish is about the eat the fry. A student posing with our native food themed snacks, and several students exploring a project table follow.

The Salmon Studygroup Kickoff

Our class, Mrs. Hanes' class and Mrs. Tucker & Chiu's class got a visit from Sammy the Superhero Salmon. Our class wrote and performed in a short play depicting Sammy's amazing journey upstream!Here he is about to jump over a waterfall.

Here he and the other salmon are being attacked by students playing hungry bears!
Thanks for taking pictures Tina W!

October 15

Dear Families,

Corbett Wind
Please help your children arrive at school in warm, layered clothing. The wind on campus can be extreme and we do need to walk through it to get to lunch and during various parts of the day.
Missing
Metal water bottle – black with silver stars.
Disappeared from Miss Reed’s lunch tote Wednesday and are dearly missed by its owner!
Please return- no questions asked.

Transportation
Children are not allowed to cross the fire lane or meet their parents in the parking lot. Families will pick their children up from the classroom. Mr. Dunton has requested that an adult must be between each child and the traffic at all times with no exceptions.

Our Classroom
This week, we completed banners depicting stages of the salmon’s life cycle. We increased our silent reading time during reader’s workshop to seven minutes. New readers are working with A- F sounds, as well as sh combinations. All readers are beginning new book groups. In math, we modeled addition and subtraction and began working with the relationship between them, culminating in adding and subtracting real jelly beans! In writing, we are beginning our first class publishing projects.

Take Care!
Miss Reed