Valentines!

Hope you had a wonderful Valentines Day!!  We had a great week!

Here are some pics from throughout the week!  

Here is our Awards Ceremony!

 Here is our visiting Librarian Ms. Whitney!

 Lot's of Valentine Activities!

 We added Deserts to our ecology chart!

 

Oceans

Last week we had the opportunity to visit Mrs. Scott's 1st grade to hear about animals that they researched.   It was so sweet to see them listen to these 1st graders with much interest.

 This week we had some more show and tell which was really fun!

 In Math this week we explored both Time and Weight measurement!

We also continued to research habitats this week we researched oceans!

Students had the opportunity to read near the wall habitats that Kindergarten is creating!  They loved it!

A Deeper Look at Literacy

Report cards will be coming home soon, so I wanted to share a little about our Literacy program here at WES and in our whole county of Isle of Wight!  Mrs. Cooprider is a close friend of mine and she is the Literacy Coach for our County. These are very short clips but I feel like they will be helpful.

This First Video is about our Balanced Literacy Program:

The Second Video is about THE BLUE BAG:

 This video talks about Strategies to use with your kids:

This week our focus was on the Forest Ecosystem.  We discussed plants and animals in that Ecosystem.  We also talked about Groundhog's since it was almost Groundhog Day.  We even made special headbands which I hope made it home.  :)