Happy December!

Today in Social Studies we learned about maps.  We learned what is on maps and how to read them.  Today in Word Study we did something new called "Stair-step Writing"  You go up and down like stairs.

By Gabriel

Maps and Pictures

Today we learned about maps.  We learned about maps and pictures.  Pictures have trees and cars and houses and roads.  Maps have lines and labels.  We have a note about our Music concert next week.

By Karen

Things We Did Today

We learned about maps. We answered questions on a piece of paper.  We learned what some of the colors on maps mean.  We also learned that they have map keys to help you figure out what things are.  We read a poem about spaghetti.  It made us hungry.  We played a money game and we had to grab five coins out of the bag without looking.  We counted the money with our partner to see who had the biggest number.  We had a sheet of paper we made x's on if we had the bigger number.

By Kaleigh

Happy Thanksgiving!

We learned about how the Pilgrims built their houses.  We watched a movie.  All the birds were dancing.  We are going to come back to school on Monday.

Newsletters online

Our November newsletters are now online!  You can find them at my school webpage:

If you can't open them, please let me know!

Mrs. Schlickbernd's class came to show us their sentence karate.  It was fun when they showed us the karate.  On Wednesday we are going to get out of school at 2:00.

By Angel

Progress Reports

Progress reports were sent home with students today.  If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at school, or email me at bjohnson@esu1.org 

I hope all of you have a wonderful Thanksgiving!  I'm very thankful for the opportunity to teach your children! 

Mr.Johnson

Funny Things

Mrs. Johnson played hangman with Thanksgiving words with her small group.  Today in PE we did relay races.  Today Lauren brought Simon Flash and Rachael brought her train name for show and tell.  Today we wrote words for our Words to Learn page.  Today was the last day of making our inventions.


by Destiny

November 18, 2011

We learned how to build science stuff. Today we worked on our science inventions. Some were big; some were little. Today was Miss Kenyon and Mr. Johansen's last day for teaching us. Important news: On Wednesday, we get out of school early.

by David

Thursday, November 17, 2011

All week we learned how to do money, we even played a money game! We went to the computer lab to make Thanksgiving cards, it was fun! We kept working on our inventions and started to build them. In spelling we did buddy check.

-Lauren

Wednesday November 16, 2011

We got into groups one with Ms. Kenyon and the other with Mr. Johansen and made timelines about important people. We made a timeline in writing. Something interesting to me was Alexander Graham Bell. And i want to remind everyone to bring pictures for our autobiographies.


-Brooklyn

November 15, 2011

We learned about things that will get you somewhere. These are called inventions. Something funny that happened is that I found a funny face in a book about Albert Einstein. It made us laugh. Book orders are due tomorrow. If you want pictures for your autobiography, please bring them to school.
by Rachael

Today we learned about money such as pennies nickels and dimes. In writing we learned that people’s lives can be put into a story and that is called a biography. At recess some of us played soccer.

                                                                                                                                  

By: Dalton

Veteran's Day

We had an assembly about Veteran's Day.  We had a couple of speeches.  Remember the Veterans.  It was Buddy Test today.  It was fun.  Everyone worked hard. 

By Gabriel

Blogger Notes for Today

We learned how to use an Elmo.  The Elmo makes things show up on the SMARTBoard and computer.  We learned how to play Magic Number Concentration.  There is a big question mark in our classroom because it has nice words to say when you are asking questions.  We read The Bald Bandit on the Elmo. Mr. Johnson showed us our Elmo.  Soon we will be getting a SMARTtable for our classroom.  We are making mind maps about air.

By Kaleigh

The News for Today

We learned how to do the actions with our Christmas songs in Music.  We had a substitute in the afternoon named Mrs. Gould.  Mr. Johnson was at a meeting.

By Harley

We learned about windsocks.  It looks like a rocket ship.  And it has streamers.  There is not going to be school on Monday.

By Angel

Helping Mr. Johnson

Today we answered some of our questions about air.  We sharpened our pinwheel pencils.  We helped Mr. Johnson do homework for his college class.  We wrote about making mistakes.  We can learn from our mistakes.  Today we put words on our word wall.   We also wrote some words in our newsletter.  Today we sang our songs in Music.

By Destiny

The Map

We learned about maps with people from Wayne State College in the new gym.  We found where the places were at.  The map was huge.  We got to walk on it!  We played Simon Says on it.  We had to try to find countries during the Simon Says game.  It was exciting!

There is no school next Monday.

By David

Our Day at School

We learned about wind pushing against some crepe paper.  We got to go outside.  We learned that if there isn't much wind, the crepe paper doesn't move at all.  We kept on going to the rug and our desks!  We got to do our checklist.  It was fun.

By Lauren