Article about bullying

This is an interesting article about bullying and how interaction with infants can help teach children about empathy and feelings. Parents, this doesn't mean you must have another baby but it is a good article!

http://blog.speakaboos.com/2010/11/childhood-bullying-may-be-solved-by-babies/

Sight Word Clubs Champs!

Our newest BLACK club member, Enrique Perez, now knows 122 sight words! Great job, Enrique! We are SO proud of you!

Our first BLACK club member was Evan Nava! Evan reached 122 words before the first grading cycle was even over! Rock on guys:)

The Land of I Can Ceremony

Every grading cycle, students are rewarded for their efforts in citizenship, Land of I Can skills, sight word clubs, science, athletics, music, and other special areas.

We are so proud of our kindergarten kiddos for knocking our socks off with how smart they are! Great job, everyone!

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Creative Literacy

Three cheers for the awesome parents and students who created some incredible pumpkins! Students chose their favorite book characters and decorated pumpkins. All second, first,kinder, and prekinder classroom hallways were line with our book characters. Check our our hallway's pumpkins!



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Field Trip to Main Street Theater

We had a great time at Main Street Theater where we saw Richard Scarry's Busytown. The acting was hilarious, the songs were lighthearted, and the costumes were so creative! We then enjoyed lunch at Hermann Park. What a wonderful day!

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Writing Projects

 

First...we were nature spies.
Then, we were authors.
Then, we were painters.
Now, we are publishers!
Check out our writing projects for Denise Fleming's in the Tall, Tall, Grass.
Denise Fleming is our first author study. She writes her stories by brainstoming action words and illustrates with dyed paper. We used paper, paint, and action words to create our own Tall, Tall Grass masterpieces.

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Community Gardening Day 2010!

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It was GREAT to see so many parents and students helping this weekend! Shout out to Ramon's family and Evan's family...they worked so hard and now our garden is beautiful! If you missed it, don't worry there will be plenty more!

More pictures on our school website: http://lantripelementary.com/index/Home.html

My New Kittens!!

Comment on these photos to help me name this cutie pa-tooties!

I decided to browse the weekend pet adoption with NO intention of getting pets but these two little monsters were SO cute! I love animals and am so happy to have little friends to take care of at home when I'm not taking care of my little ones at school :)

I need name suggestions, though. The little gray on is a CRAZY runt and a girl. The brown/black tabby is her brother. Any ideas, send them my way!

Super Smelly Projects

We are learning our 5 senses and created some SUPER smelly projects! Presenting your scientist's first projects! They did a great job! Thank you for all your help, we can't wait to share more projects! Mr. Cairey will be video taping all their presentations for them to watch later!

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The Land of I Can!

We have kicked off the Land of I Can! Here is the video from open house. Cheer on your little scholar!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLN2J8TR8ME


LOVE PBS KIDS!

There are so many great games on PBS Kids. This one is great to do at home because it can help your student recognize sounds in words and then find the letter that makes that sound. Give it a try!
http://pbskids.org/lions/games/ears.html

Watch Us Learn Math Work Stations

We have started to practice math work stations. We are doing great with sorting and classifying objects, counting objects, and creating patterns. We have also been graphing a lot! Ask your student about their favorite math center.

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Welcome to Our Blog!

Dear Parents, family members, friends, and students,

Welcome to the Magnet Kinder Green Gator Blog. I am so excited to share important events, pictures and videos of what we are up to, special songs I love to play in class, and books we have read. I usually update it when something that makes me say "WOW!" happens! Please follow me so you can get updates sent to your email when I update pictures. How easy is that?!

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Teach for America in a nutshell.

One Day Started. And it never ends.

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Camp-Read-A-Lot

During the month of April we were caught always reading everywhere (C.A.R.E.)! All around the school there were pools, tents, lawn chairs, and more to make us feel like we were camping as we read. We had an author, Melissa Willias, visit the school and talk about her books in the Iggy the Iguana series. We also had lots of guest readers like Ms. Turkall and many of our parents! We also made solar s'mores and sang camp cheers and songs. We LOVE to read!

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We Know 100 High Frequency Words!

We worked all year at home and at school and we did it! WE made it around the sun and now we know 100 (or more!) High Frequency Words! We had a celebration with green gator cookies and ice pops! I am so proud of this class!

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Here we come to the Garden Show!

The Garden Show was a huge success! Your students were STARS! Thank you so much for your help, parents!

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Kindergarten Easter Egg Hunt!

The day after Easter the kindergarten classes hopped around looking for math and candy-filled eggs!

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Ms. Yoerges in Los Angeles

Over spring break I had the opportunity to fly an airplane! Check out these pictures!

Field Trip to the Houston Museum of Natural Science

On April 1st the magnet kinder classes took a trip to the Houston Museum of Natural Science. We saw a 3D IMAX called Bugs, checked out the exhibits, explored the butterfly garden, and had a great time in Hermann Park. It was a beautiful, extremely educational day!

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Reading Buddies

Every Friday the students of Ms. Taylor's Second Grade Class and the Green Gators meet to share our smarts and read with each other. The 2nd graders have been reading oodles of Dr. Seuss to us so then we share our very own D.E.A.R. books (individual bags of books on each student's reading level), and our journals. We LOVE to read, read, read! Thanks Ms. Taylor's class!

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Field Trip to the Houston Zoo

Our Field Trip to the Houston Zoo!
Kindergarten went wild at the zoo. We saw all the animals and had fun monkey-ing around. Check out this wild scrapbook!

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Learning About the Chinese New Year

 

Chinese New Year started on February 14th and goes until February 28th. It is a 15-day celebration follows a lunar cycle and ends with a full moon. This year we are celebrating the year of the TIGER. We made animal puppets and speech bubbles to represent the different animals in the Chinese calendar. Your students were either born in the year of the goat (2003) or the year of the monkey (2004). I was born the year of the ox!

We have also made dancing dragons an Chinese fans. We painted the fans with delicate flowers and Chinese characters (letters). Out in the hall we have been workiong all week to create our dragon with different bright colors and materials. We will be making a dragon head for the parade on Friday. We made drums, will use instruments, carry our fans, lanterns, and dragons in our parade.

On Wednesday, our very own Lantrip 5th grader, Jonathon Tran come to speak to our class about his family's Chinese traditions. We can't wait for our celebration on Friday!

Great Olympic Videos!

http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/assetid=481e7266-e705-41c6-b154-4140b4ef319e.html

Follow the torch here:
http://www.vancouver2010.com/more-2010-information/olympic-torch-relay/olympic-torch-relay-interactive-map/

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Thank you for being so patient with me, parents! I will be uploading lots of pictures and videos as we venture into some exciting units.

This week we are starting our Olympics 2010 unit. We will be visiting each country through google maps, investigating the winter Olympic Games sports and athletes, graphing medals, and reading lots of books about the Olympics. Please watch the opening ceremonies this Friday, February 12th at 6:30 on NBC. Each Kinder class has chosen a different country so next week our class will start to cheer on Canada! Join us as we track the amount of medals Canada wins!

There are many activities on the Olympic Committee website: http://www.vancouver2010.com/.

Next week we will be tracking the Olympics AND starting our Chinese New Year Unit! More to come on that! Here is a great website to get a head start learning about the Chinese New Year: http://www.theholidayspot.com/chinese_new_year/.

Finally, Valentine's Day is on Sunday so we will be having a sweet, Valentine exchange on Friday. We will be doing a Valentine writing project, graphing candy hearts, and enjoying our loving classroom. Some kind vocabulary words we are learning are: love, friendship, "excuse me," "please," "thank you," and respect. Help you student think of other kind words so we can add to our kind word chain!

Field Trip to the Houston Arboretum

We Love Trees!
Magnet K-2 took an awesome trip to the Houston Arboretum. Check out some of our pictures and the website: http://www.houstonarboretum.org/. We learned about the different habitats within the park like the pond, in trees, and under logs. We also became track detectives to find which animals leave certain tracks. We found decaying logs, trees that woodpeckers hunted for insects in, and scary, hairy vines that we found out were poison ivy!

Sing this great song with your students to the tune of The Farmer in the Dell:
A Habitat's a Home,
A Habitat's a Home,
Food, water, shelter, space,
A Habitat's a Home!



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Winter Pictures!



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