First snow of the season!

Happy Birthday, Blog!!

Happy Birthday to our Blog!

I can’t believe it is here – the one-year birthday of this blog!

Here is our year by the numbers…

132 posts

452 comments

4505 visitors

72 countries

We’d love to hear your thoughts on the first year of our blog. Please leave a comment!

Memories, Vol 3

Here’s our 3rd volume of voicethread memories.

Tiny Memories

Writing Workshop

We are continuing to work on writing our memories in writing workshop. We have Fall Fun Day tomorrow, so no time to write or record! We will be back on Wednesday and try to record Volume II of our Memories VoiceThread.

I have prepared a directory on Text 2 Mind Maps, so you will know in which Volume your memory will be found.

VoiceThread Memories

The Wonderful Ones make a Wordle!

Today we made a list of 60 words that began with the m sound. Then we typed them into wordle and made a beautiful picture of our words. We printed a copy for our classroom door and we want to share it on our blog post.

m wordle

image by wordle.net

We have had a great first two days of school! We have been busy learning the dismissal routine, the Terrific Kid rules, strategies for solving new words, the rules for good communication, and a lot of new songs!

Stop back later this week for photos of our first week of school with Mrs. Wojtera’s Wonderful Ones.

Look out for sharks!

Our friends at Teachers Love SMART Boards sent us a fun link. (They always have the best ideas!) Click on the fish at the bottom of the screen – then you can choose which fish to follow by clicking on it. This looks great on our SMART Board!

Math Centers – a fun way to learn!

We used our math games to practice addition, subtraction, telling time, counting money, and problem solving! Look at our slide show to see how we did all of this in one day.

Austin says it was fun to make those block puzzles and they were really cool! My favorite one was the sun.

Jordan says it was awesome sitting under Mrs. Wojtera’s desk. We played two games.

Mackenzie says it was fun to match up all the digital and regular clocks together. We pretended that all the power went down and all the clocks we matched up made the power go back up.

Auna says we took turns while we were reading the plus signs. We liked it and it was fun.

Abby says Zan and I worked on pentominoes and we made little animals.

Charli says Haley and I had a book and it had a binder. We matched up some blocks to the picture.

Here’s one more fun way to practice some addition facts from

fun4thebrain.com. Choose your character and swim fast!

Easter B

Hoppy Easter!

Shamrock Run today!

Five good reasons that you should be at Bissett Park today for the Shamrock Run!

1. It’s for a good cause!
2. It will be fun.
3. It’s only $5.00 for kids.
4. You’ll see Mr. Graham.
5. You’ll get exercise!

So, bundle up, because the high today will be 32 degrees and support the Honeybee Fund!

A Wonderful Wednesday

Okay, the newspaper clipping is fake… I wrote it myself, but that doesn’t mean I am any less proud of my Wonderful Ones and their accomplishments!  Seeing them navigate their blog posts, looking for their favorite song, seeing what their blogging buddies from Australia are up to, writing a post, or leaving a comment makes me very happy to be their teacher.

I can’t wait to see what else we can accomplish this year!