100 Days Smarter

This week was quite a busy week! We celebrated our 100th day of school, Valentines Day and Donuts with Dad. Below are some pictures from our busy week!

We started our 100th Day with special 100 Day workstations.

 The children tried their best to help each other complete a puzzle with 100 pieces.

We saw how long it would take to stack 100 dominoes.

We experimented with stacking 100 cups.

We created hats that held 100 stickers.

We created necklaces that had 100 fruit loops on them.

We made a delicious trail mix that had 100 pieces in each bag!

We had a Hersey Kiss scavenger hunt- There were 100 kisses hidden around the room....

We took turns finding them...

and then matching the number on the bottom of our kiss to our 100 chart!

We answered the questions "I wish I had 100 ______" and "I would never want 100 ______"

Pre-K students traced their numbers 1-100

And kinder students wrote the numbers 1-100 all by themselves!

It was a very busy and very fun day!

Later in the week we were lucky enough to have another celebration- Valentines Day!

We started out Valentines day off with Donuts with Dad. 

It was wonderful seeing so many families come to school to spend time with their children. Here are just a few of the daddies that we saw on Friday!

Later in the day we celebrated Valentines day in several ways!

We practiced our patterning with giant conversation hearts....

We used real conversation hearts to practice estimating and counting out large numbers.

We each had a cup of conversation hearts and we graphed how many of each color were in our cups!

Finally we ended the day by passing out our Valentines into some pretty creative boxes!

I hope that you and your loved ones enjoyed your holiday weekend! I know I sure loved celebrating my little ones 1st Valentines Day!

-Mrs. Richardson

Hello February!

This week we finished our Chinese New Year unit and began getting ready for our 100th day of school and Valentines Day!

Below are some peaks into our week!

On Monday we learned all about Chinese letters 1-12! Pre-K placed the missing numbers in order and kinder students actually practiced addition with Chinese numbers!

To help us keep warm this week we worked with winter hats....and added some numbers! :) 

Pre-K recognized numbers 1-15 and placed them in order.

 Kinder students used the same hats but grouped them in pairs. After grouping the two random hats they had to decide which was the largest number in each group and placed it on top. When they finished that task I help them to create addition or subtraction problems using each hat! Some students had problems as hard as 15-12 and they did great!

 In preparation for Valentines Day we are creating "Heart Creatures" in class! The students are experimenting with different sizes of hearts to create an animal or monster! So far I have seen them create a tiger, a ghost, a monster ghost, and a butterfly! When each child is finished we will display them for Donuts with Dad on Friday!

 This week we have been creative with "Inside Recess"! Students learned several new games.

 Playing "Pass the Bean Bag"

 Practicing our handwriting, letter/sound recognition and math in shaving cream-always a favorite!

 I taught the students in room #11 and room #12 how to play duck duck goose!

 We enjoyed reading a wonderful book this week called "The Mitten"

After reading the story we had a blast creating puppets for each of the characters and then re-telling the story as a class!

I hope you enjoyed your peak into our classroom this week! Below are some important reminders and dates to put on your calendar!

2/10-100th Day of School! Kinder Black History Project Due

2/14-Valentines Exchange & Donuts with Dad at 10-10:45.

2/17- Regular School day due to inclement weather make up

2/20-African Attire for Black History Program

2/24- Open House 6-7 PM

2/28- Rodeo Attire!

As Always please feel free to call or email with any questions or concerns!

-Mrs. Richardson

Chinese New Year and a Sock Celebration!

This week at Reece Academy we celebrated Chinese New Year! The students learned about the Chinese new year and ended the week with a grand celebration!

This year in the Chinese calendar was the year of the horse!

Students created hats and dressed in Chinese attire to celebrate this happy time!

We learned several Chinese words, listened to the Drama Company, watched the Dance Troupe and heard songs from the violin students!

Selected students were also lucky enough this week to attend a field trip to the Aldine FFA live stock show at the M.O.C. building. Joanita, Samantha, Braylon and Elijah Yancy were invited from our class to attend!

The students were introduced to a new workstation this week- A sorting station! This week we sorted shapes! We sorted 2-D, flat, shapes and 3-D shapes. 

If your child has already mastered the names of the 8 basic shapes (square, circle, rectangle, oval, triangle, rhombus, star, heart) go ahead and start working on 3-D shapes!

In kindergarten students are tested on the following 3-D shapes!

We ended our week with a surprise for the students- A surprise party for all their hard work during our sock drive! Before Christmas break we came in second place in the school sock drive and on Friday our students enjoyed ice cream, a scavenger hunt and a special treat to show that their hard work was really appreciated!

I hope your little one enjoyed their surprise!

We have some very busy weeks coming up with our 100th day of school, Valentines Day and Black History month!

 In Homework folders this week you will find a letter requesting a food item for our 100th day of school- I appreciate your help in providing the specific item that is assigned to your child however if you are unable to provide it please check the appropriate box and return the slip so I can purchase it myself!

As always, thank you for your support and participation with your child's education!

-Mrs. Richardson

P.S.- I am curious to see how many of our families are visiting our website. So here is a little experiment! If you have read this page send a note with your child (just a little piece of paper) with the word "website" written on it in their Friday Folder, Homework Folder or backpack. I will collect all "entries" and send a special thank you home this Friday! Also if you have and comments, or suggestions for things that you would like to see on here you can comment below or add that to your little piece of paper!