Special Visitors

This past week we were so lucky to meet Linda Francis and Judy Kvaale, authors of The Gingerbread Cousins series.  They came to our classroom and read Skip, the Spacey Surfer which is a book about a gingerbread man who is in Florida trying to get away from different animals!

Linda and Judy talked about how they have to do research before they write a book and told us how they learn something new each time they write a new book.  They are currently researching North Dakota, and what they students don't know yet, is that they will be helping Linda and Judy with their research!  In the next few weeks, we will be learning about animals that live in North Dakota and we will send our research to the authors.  Maybe some of our ideas will be in their North Dakota book?!

You can read more about the authors here

Here is a video of Linda and Judy being interviewed on North Dakota Today

Thanks for coming, Linda & Judy! 

#celebsighting :)

News from the Week

Hello!  Here are a few highlights from our week!

We met Miss Guhlke, our student teacher!  

She will be in our classroom until Dec. 22nd. 

We also worked on the comprehension strategy of questioning.  When we don't understand something, or we want to know more, we MUSTACHE a question!

Our good friends in Mrs. Hawkinson's class wanted to learn how to use Seesaw so we taught them!

Peer-to-peer teaching.  

Doesn't get much better than this!

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Hello November! How'd you get here so fast?

This week we learned about how asking questions can help us be a better reader.  By asking questions, our minds stay focused on the story while we look for evidence in the text.  This group read a story about desert animals and asked the question, "What is in a camel's humps?"  We didn't find any evidence in our text, but luckily, we were able to find a reliable source to get the answer to our question!  Guess what! It's NOT water!  It's fatty tissue! Learn something new every day, right?

We also practiced asking questions during our 10 Feather Celebration.  After a friend showed their toy, we took turns asking a question about the toy.  

In math this week, we talked about positional words.  

"My hand is beside his head."

"My hand is below the table."

"I am going over the chair."

"He went under my legs."

Each day during calendar time, we stay engaged by using our white boards.  Sometimes we get to write on the ActivBoard!  We practice writing numbers, making patterns, and showing numbers in different ways.  We call these name collections!

How many ways can we show '7'?

And, sometimes, this happens.

CAUTION! KIDS AT WORK!!

See that pile of coats, whiteboards, water bottles, etc?? Those things are LONGER than a whiteboard marker.

See that lonely little eraser? He's SHORTER than a whiteboard marker.  

See those whiteboards all over the floor?  We were way too busy and excited to find and compare longer and shorter objects that we made a mess in the process!  But it was fun, so it's all good! :)

Great job this week, Little Learners!

Feature Teacher: Mrs. Rensch

This week we had the pleasure of interviewing Mrs. Rensch, one of our PE teachers!  She even danced with us as we're getting ready for FAMILY DANCE NIGHT on Tuesday, Nov. 10th!

Check out our interview!

And here's a SNEAK PEEK at what 

FAMILY DANCE NIGHT is all about!

Hope to see you there!

Our PE teachers went SOCIAL!

If you're on Facebook, make sure to 'like' the Osgood Physical Education page!

Miss Richard and Mrs. Rensch are SUPER TEACHERS!