Playing the Mbira!

On Monday we read a story called A Lion on the Path. In this story, a farmer (in Africa) came across a fierce lion while walking on a path. The farmer had a mbira, a small musical instrument, that he played to calm the lion and escape. After reading the story, we broke up into groups and attempted to make our own "mbiras"!

Aaron LOVED making and playing his group's "mbira"!

Santoes practicing for his debut. He was chosen to play for his group!

Jonathan and La'Shawn trying out their "mbira"!

Aaron's group presenting their "mbira"!

I just love this picture of Jonathan! So cute!

The video below is of Jonathan and Santoes playing their "mbiras" to the tune of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star". ENJOY!

A Week of Working Hard!

Our students have shown such great progress this year! I am so proud of them! All of this progress is due to their hard work! Below are a few pictures of them working hard. Of course, we still have fun!

La'Shawn and Mrs. Higdon work on sight words!

Lucy is learning to type sentences on the computer! She is doing so well and is so proud of herself!

Mrs. Stowe, Enoch, and Santoes make such a good team. While completing the number train floor puzzle, Santoes would identify the number and give it to Enoch. Enoch would then put the puzzle pieces together!

While reading this book, La'Shawn came across a page that showed a child yawning! Of course, La'Shawn showed us that he could yawn too! Ha! Ha!

Lucy has become quite the little "teacher" herself! At indoor recess, she decided to "teach" Enoch a few things!

Santoes was the TOP TOUCAN last week. Therefore, he was responsible for taking the lunch count to the cafeteria every day. Of course, Lucy was more than willing to show him the way!

Keep up the hard work everyone!

Good Friends!

Last week, due to the weather, the students had indoor recess. Independently, Enoch went to the reading center, picked out the book "Two Good Friends", and walked over to Ms. Malcom's desk. When Ms. Malcom asked him what he wanted, Enoch handed her the book. Ms. Malcom was so happy that Enoch wanted to spend his free time reading with her! That is definite points towards "Teacher's Pet". Ha! Ha!

Lucy decided to spend her free time playing "School" with Mrs. Higdon! Lucy was a great teacher and Mrs. Higdon was a great student!

Joyria decided to spend her free time making music!

Enoch, Lucy, and Eliana are great friends!

Santoes is so sweet! Recently he runs up to his teachers when he gets to school and gives them a huge hug. Before he leaves school in the afternoon, we all get another big hug! What a sweet boy!

Enoch loved this special attention from Mrs. Stowe!

We are all such great friends in our class! We are so lucky to have each other and enjoy our time together!

Lucky the Leprechaun Makes a Visit!

It looks like Lucky the Leprechaun made another visit to our classroom this year!

Oh my goodness! Lucky definitely made a visit!

Below is a picture of the kids coming to the classroom on St. Patrick's Day! Little did they know, they had a big surprise waiting on them!

When they entered the classroom, some of the students looked at the room and continued with their regular routine. Ha! Ha! La'Shawn was quite distraught and kept saying "Oh No! Mess".

Lucky left a path of green leaves. We followed the path!

At the end of the path were a few treasures that Lucky left behind. He left gold chocolate coins for all of the kids and a special gift for Lucy, our Top Toucan!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Reading Success! :-)

Eliana has been working so hard to progress in her reading abilities! She is doing such a fabulous job, as you can see from the video below!

WAY TO GO ELIANA!!! We are so proud of you!

Green Eggs and Ham!

Last Tuesday was Dr. Seuss' birthday! It was also Read Across America day! In celebration of this day, we read the story "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss. We also made our own green eggs and ham!

All of our students loved the story! It is a fun story!

Ms. Malcom put a recipe for green eggs and ham on the ActivBoard. We had a great time following the recipe step-by-step to make our green eggs and ham!

First, we had to crack the eggs!


We had to add milk and green food coloring!

Then, we had to mix them!

We had to add the ham and mix some more!

We had to spray the electric frying pan and cook the eggs!

I must say that I think green eggs and ham were a hit! They were wonderful! Most of our students even asked for seconds!

Ms. Malcom even loved them!

At the end of the lesson, everyone had to decided whether or not they liked green eggs and ham! As a whole, the answer was "YES!".

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

Newton County Art Show!

I am so proud that the art work of two of our students was featured in the Newton County Art Show that took place at the Newton County Library last week. Joyria and Santoes worked very hard on their art piece titled "The Seashore". It was chosen to be one of the art pieces shown at the art show! I had a chance to go to the library on the night that the art show took place! It was so nice to see one of our art pieces on the wall with many other beautiful masterpieces! The pictures below are from the art show!

WAY TO GO Joyria and Santoes! You represented South Salem Elementary and Ms. Malcom's Class very well!

Updated Class Picture!

Below is our most recent class picture! It is so amazing to look at this picture and look back at the first one that I posted! I am sooooo proud of all of our students. They have worked so hard and made such great progress! I am blessed to have such a wonderful class and I love them all!
I must admit, they are a cute bunch!

Hop Scotch!

Last week, while working on number identification, we set up a hop scotch board in our room to play a game of hop scotch. The object of the game was this: First, each student had to pull a card that consisted of a number. They had to then throw the bean bag on the correct number and complete the hop scotch board! This was such a fun way to practice our number idenification. We had a blast, as you will see in the pictures below!

DeAsia did a great job completing the hop scotch board! Mrs. Stowe wasn't so bad herself!

Enoch loved throwing the bean bag and would always land on the correct number!

Eliana and Aaron are such great friends. In the picture below, they are waiting for their turn at hop scotch!

La'Shawn had a cool new hairdo! We LOVED it!

La'Shawn did a great job at hop scotch too! He laughed the entire time!

Go Eliana Go!

Exceptional Children's Week!

During the week of March 1st-5th, we celebrated Exceptional Children's Week. This year's theme was "Fueling the Road to Success". In celebration of this week, our class made pins for all of the staff at our school to wear the entire week. We also had special features on the morning announcements as well as special visitors (classes from our school) sign up to visit us for Music and Book Buddies!
Below are a few pictures of us working so hard to make the pins for everyone! They turned out great and we hope that they enjoyed them!

Once the pins were complete, Eliana helped Mrs. Malcom place them all in a basket! She was such as great helper!

Happy Exceptional Children's Week!