Grandma!

Mrs. Doiron is a grandma!  Savannah Grace was born on Friday, December 13th at 9:53 p.m.  She is 6 pounds, 11 ounces, and 19.5 inches long.  Mommy, daddy, baby, and grandparents are all doing well.

Functional (Procedural) Writing

Students in our class made their own peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in preparation for a Functional Writing assignment.  After making (and eating) their sandwiches, children identified the steps they used to make their sandwiches.  The next day, they wrote their directions for how to make a sandwich and drew illustrations to match.

Our Jack-o-Lantern

A few days before Halloween our class carved a pumpkin.  Students had an opportunity to pull the "guts" out of the pumpkin and separate the seeds from the "guts".  Students helped choose the shape for the eyes and nose, as well as the number of teeth he had.  We also toasted the seeds (Yes, Mrs. Doiron brought her toaster oven to school.) and enjoyed eating them.  We all agreed that they taste like popcorn.

Can you guess why we named our Jack-o-Lantern "Scar"?

Nonfiction Elements

During the month of October, our student learned the Elements of Nonfiction, such as Table of Contents, Index, Photographs, Labels, Diagrams, Maps, Bold Words and Highlighted Words.  These photos show our students finding these Nonfiction Elements in books and showing them to Mrs. Tremble, our FSCJ Intern.

Connor's A-Maize-Ing Acres

What a great field trip!  We all had a wonderful day!

Connor's A-Maize-Ing Acres

Lunch and Playground

(Mrs. Doiron decided not to post photos of the children who fell asleep on the bus going back to school!)

Thank you so very much to the five parents who came along on this field trip as chaperones!

Connor's A-Maize-Ing Acres

We thought we might get lost in the Corn Maze, but we followed the twists and turns, and found out way out eventually.  
What a fun adventure this was!

Connor's A-Maize-Ing Acres

We took a hayride and got to feed hay to the cows!  

Some students even got to pet the cows.

Connor's A-Maize-Ing Acres

The "Cow Train" was REALLY fun!

Did you know that Connor's A-Maize-Ing Acres is open in the evenings and on Saturday?  For information, go to their website at http://www.conners-a-maize-ing-acres.com.

Connor's A-Maize-Ing Acres

Here is a photo of the farmer who spoke with us about the farm, as well as some of the animals we saw.