My Week Room in 121

Dear Friends,

I had so much fun in Room 121.

I got to go to Art with the class and draw portraits.

 I had so much fun on the playground. The class earned a free recess for good behavior.

It was exciting to see the butterflies emerge from their chrysalis.

I really enjoyed reading with the students. I will miss Reynolds.

                                                  From,

                                                  Tomas

Kids in Argentina love meeting you!

Hi everybody!! I want to tell you that kids at Newlands enjoy meeting you a lot ! They have learnt lots of facts about New Jersey and USA. I am also very happy because you were a

lot at the library and you behaved very well, that is very nice of you!

Miss Viviana enjoyed talking to Christina and Miss Lacarra,who surprisingly is married to an argentine boy!!She also loved the song and if you send it to her she will be teaching it to the kids .

You see they all want to be my friends! Children are sweet , when I visit them they play with me and they always bring treats to celebrate I go with them!

At the Library

We can see that Tomás is learning a lot at your school, Rocket is turning out to be  a  fan of the library
LOOK AT THIS!

She loves visiting the library to listen to some poetry!

Miss Laura our teacher librarian reads poems to her

Miss Laura is very happy to have guests at the library

She is enjoying a lot!

Our Mission is to welcome Rocket

Hi Kids! This video has been made by a student in our school. I hope you will enjoy it!
You will listen to a beautiful  Argentinian song sang by Abel Pintos. The song is called `La llave´ in English, `The Key´.

And now pay a lot of attention, this video is CONFIDENTIAL

Rocket's journeys!

Rocket keeps on visitng children's houses. Every day she goes to the house of the child who spoke English  and made a great effort. The following day the child brings something to share with the class, it can be something to eat, a story, a song, or whatever they want to bring!
This week we had a picnic in the playground and we read The Very Hungry Caterpillar!
Rocket is learning about food groups, the food pyramid and healthy and unhealthy food as she is working a new project called: Positive Food.

This week I was with Mrs. Sing's class. I got the chance to do some fun recycling activities as it was "National Green Week." Here is a picture of me weighing our snack trash and this helped us learn how it's important to use reusable containers so that we have less waste.

This week, I also learned how to put spelling words into ABC order. All the words had the vowel "i". I helped put the short and long i words into alphabetical order.

In Mrs. Sing's class this week, the children were learning about caterpillars and butterflies in Science. I got the chance to observe caterpillars turning into a chrysalis. It was so exciting to see the caterpillars change throughout the week! Here is a picture of me observing the caterpillars change.

During math this week, I was able to use the iPad to play some math games with a friend. I loved using the app "Splash Math" to learn about skip counting, and adding and subtracting. Here's a picture of me using the iPad!

I had such an exciting week in Mrs. Sing's class! I even got the chance to read a book called Aqualicious. It was about a little girl who found a mermaid at the beach. It makes me feel excited for warm weather! I'm off to my next first grade class, I will see you all next week at the Google Hangout.

Mrs. Carmilani's First Grade Class

Wow! I am in Mrs. Carmilani’s first grade class and I am learning so much with the children.  I’ve been busy getting ready for the Passport to Learning show where we learn about the countries of the world and the 7 continents.  The 7  continents are North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and Antarctica. 

I also took part in all of their lessons in Writing Workshop, Reading Workshop, Math, Science, and Social Studies.

I was able to read books sitting back-to-back and hip-to-hip.  Calendar is a lot of fun. We don’t just learn about the date but we talk about place value and money.

Snack is the best. We get to sit with one another and talk quietly using indoor voices.