A Great Visit!

We enjoyed another great visit today from our friends in Ms. Stegall's Kindergarten class! We sang songs, laughed, and danced! It was a fun time!

We also received a visit from one of our new friends, Ms. Jodi! Ms. Jodi is the daughter of Ms. Walden, one of our first grade teachers at South Salem. She is in high school but wants to be a teacher "when she grows up". She loves coming to visit our students and works so well with them. We look forward to her visits and enjoy spending time with her as well! Thanks so much Ms. Jodi!

I also have to brag on La'Shawn once more (I told him that I would put this on the blog). When we were singing today, Ms. Stowe asked La'Shawn if he wanted to come up to the front. He said "yes" and we got his walker so that he could stand in front of the class!

La'Shawn was so proud and stood up in the front of the classroom the entire time. He stood in his walker independently and participated in the song. Way to Go La'Shawn!

We Can Read!

What a GREAT day! That's all I can say! I am so proud of our students. They have worked so hard learning their sight words so that they can read. Today, their hard work really paid off. During Reading, each student was given their reading books and together we read "The Cat Sat". After reading it together, La'Shawn volunteered to come to the front of the class and read it to the class all by himself. He did an excellent job! Way to go Everyone!

Ms. Higdon and Enoch read one of the pages from "The Cat Sat" together!

Along with learning our sight words, we have also be learning how to follow along with our "reading finger" as we read. Joyria did an excellent job following along as La'Shawn read the story to the class!


La'Shawn was so proud of himself and we were so proud of him too! He had the biggest smile when he was reading in front of the class! He is also doing an excellent job following along with his "reading finger" as he reads!

We are learning so much! Thanks to all of our wonderful students for their hard work and all of their wonderful parents for working with them and encouraging them to do their best!

What on Earth??

Today was a GREAT day! We have been learning about Earth and what Earth looks like from Space. Last night, the homework assignment was to color a picture of what Earth looks like from Space. We were so happy because EVERYONE COMPLETED THEIR HOMEWORK!!! Way to Go! In celebration of everyone completing their homework assignment, we asked everyone to come to the front of the class and share their homework with the class!

Enoch went first! With Ms. Malcom's help, Enoch showed the class that the color green on the model of Earth represents land!

DeAsia was so excited to share her homework assignment with the class. She wanted to tell us about it and that's exactly what she did! :-)

Joyria showed the class that the Earth is round and the shape of a circle!

La'Shawn showed the class that the color blue on the model of Earth represents water!

After sharing our completed homework assignments, Ms. Malcom taught the class about how parts of the Earth look in the day and night! This was fun!

We have learned so much about the Earth! Great Job everyone for completing your homework!

The School Stars!

Every morning we look forward to watching the Morning Announcements on the ActivBoard. Two of the starts of the Morning Announcements are Schylar and Morgan. They are both in the 5th grade and are such great role models for the students in our school. Last week, they were so kind and came by our room for a visit. We were so happy to have them visit our classroom. We even asked them to do a version of the Morning Announcements live in our classroom!

We also asked them questions about the Morning Announcements. We asked them if they like being on the Morning Announcements, where they get their material for their broadcast each morning, etc.

The next morning, Morgan gave a "shout out" to our class on the Morning Announcements. How sweet! Of course, before Schylar and Morgan left, we had to get a class picture with our two new friends!


Thanks Schylar and Morgan for taking the time to visit our class! Thanks for being such great friends!

Celebrating the 100th Day of School!

On Wednesday we celebrated the 100th Day of School! Wow!! It's so strange to think that we have already been in school for 100 days!

On this day, we made really cool celebration hats! We used white pipe cleaners to make white hair. We also made models of what we will look like when we are 100 years old!

We also completed an activity where we counted out 100 paper clips, 100 pieces of popcorn, and 100 beans. We glued these items on a big model of 100!

Below, Joyria and Ms. Malcom glue the 100 paper clips on the number zero!

La'Shawn and Ms. Stowe counted out 100 pieces of popcorn and glued them on the other zero!

When Joyria was finished with her paperclips, she assisted La'Shawn with the popcorn! Ms. Higdon glued the 100 beans on the number one!

Joyria's celebration hat fell off when she was working so hard on her project. When we looked over, she had put it back on by herself. We all giggled when we saw that her white "hair" was upside down!

The finished product!

When I look back on the last 100 days, I can't help but be so proud of how much our students have grown (academically and socially) since the first day of school! It is quite amazing! They have truly worked so hard and I am so blessed to be called their teacher! Way to Go!

It's A... Baby!

Yesterday our room mother, Kelli (also Ms. Malcom's sister), came by to visit! She is expecting in late July and had been to the doctor to get her first ultrasound picture. She came by to show our class the first picture of the baby!

Ms. Kelli's husband, Mr. Russell, came with Kelli! He had a great time and loved our students! They loved him too!

Below, is one of the ultrasound pictures of the baby! We are so excited and would like to say Congratulations to Kelli and Russell from our class!

So Much to be Thankful For!

With the upcoming celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday as well as the Presidential Inaugaration, WE HAVE SO MUCH TO BE THANKFUL FOR!

We should be thankful for the opportunities that we are given, the people that we are blessed to meet, and the path that history has paved for us! In celebration of these events, we created a beautiful tribute to Martin Luther King outside of our classroom!

Below, Enoch helps Ms. Malcom add some of the handprints to our bulletin board!

La'Shawn was so happy to help!

Joyria also helps Ms. Malcom add more handprints to our display!

We were missing some people on this day but this is our "class" picture with the finished product!

Joyria, Enoch, and La'Shawn with our tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King and his contributions to U.S. history!

Letter Ff Show and Tell!

We had a FABULOUS letter Ff Show and Tell!

Everyone did their homework and brought something (beginning with the letter Ff) to share with the class!

Joyria brought a FORK!

Ms. Malcom brought a picture FRAME with a picture of her best FRIENDS!

Ms. Higdon let us know that FEET begin with the letter Ff!


Ms. Stowe brought a FRISBEE that her and Ms. Malcom's class two years ago bought when they climbed Stone Mountain!

La'Shawn brought a bag full of FEATHERS!

Enoch showed the class that FLOWERS begin with the letter Ff!

GREAT JOB everyone for completing your homework and making the letter Ff Show and Tell FABULOUS!!!

Random Pictures from This Week!

Below are some random pictures from this week!

Ms. Higdon and Enoch work on one of the Boardmaker books! Enoch did a really good job on this!

Calendar Time!

A cute picture of La'Shawn!

Enoch trying to find out what is going on inside the camera!

Joyria giving Ms. Higdon a big hug! How sweet!

The Letter of the Week is the Letter Ff!

The Letter of the Week is the Letter Ff! Ms. Higdon is such a great artist. She drew the picture of the Alphafriend, Fifi Fish, below!

Today, we created a "Word" web of things that begin with the letter Ff. Each student was given several picture cards of things that begin with the letter Ff. They were required to take their picture card to Ms. Higdon so that she could draw a picture of it on our "Word" web.
Enoch looks on as Ms. Higdon draws the object that was on his picture card!

La'Shawn watches as Ms. Higdon draws the object that was on his picture card. La'Shawn has been doing so well identifying letter sounds. He loves Language Arts, when we work on letter sounds!


Joyria loved this activity. She shows Ms. Higdon her picture card!

Our completed "Word" web for the Letter Ff!

Thanks Ms. Higdon for always sharing your gift of art with us!

Oh Happy Day!

Yesterday was a GREAT day! Everyday Ms. Malcom, Ms. Stowe, or Ms. Higdon write a Daily Message on the board. This Daily Message tells the students what we will be learning each day. Everyday, Ms. Malcom reads the Daily Message, pointing to each word, waiting to see if anyone is able to read the word, reading it, and waiting for the students to repeat what was read. Yesterday, Joyria and La'Shawn INDEPENDENTLY read some of the words off of the board. We were so amazed so we circled the word that they were able to read and put their name beside it. Enoch also did a great job. When we got to the word "more", he INDEPENDENTLY signed the word "more". We were so proud of him and let him claim that word! Way to Go!!!

The United States Flag and K-W-L Chart!

This week, in Social Studies, we have been learning about the United States Flag! We also learned how to complete a K-W-L Chart!

Below, Ms. Stowe reviews what is written on our K-W-L Chart! The first column represents what we already know about the U.S. Flag. The second column represents what we want to learn about the U.S. Flag. After filling out the second column, we watched a video and read a story about the U.S. Flag. The third column represents what we learned about the U.S. Flag.

Joyria was the teacher's helper during this lesson. While Ms. Malcom took pictures, Ms. Stowe and Joyria pointed out different things about our flag. We learned that the flag is red, white, and blue!

Enoch came to the front of the room to point out that our flag had stripes!

La'Shawn pointed out, to the class, that our flag had stars!

We learned so much about our flag. We learned that we make a promise to our flag and country by saying the "Pledge of Allegiance". We also learned who wrote the "Pledge of Allegiance". Below, Ms. Higdon completes the last column of our K-W-L Chart, representing what we learned about the flag!

This was a great lesson and the students learned a lot from it!