Habitat Presentations

THANK YOU to everyone who came for our animal presentations.  This was the first year we had parents in and had kids present their hard work.  I think it was a huge success and something we plan to continue each year.  The kids worked so hard on this project.  They were so excited to share it with all of you.  Thank you for taking time out of your day to celebrate with us.

Family Fitness Night

I hope your calendar is marked for this Friday, February 27th!  Come join us at Carmel Elementary for Family Fitness Night from 6:30-8:30.  Come ready to have fun and exercise with your family!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Thanks to all the moms, dads, and grandmas who helped make our Valentine's Day party a success! The kids always have a great time.  Happy Valentine's Day to all!

What's In Mrs. Selm's Purse???

What a fun week it has been!  This week we learned that good readers sometimes have to infer when they read.  The author doesn't always tell us what we we need to know so we have to be good detectives to figure out the meaning.  We learned to use the following thinking stems:

*I think it means...

*Perhaps...

*I infer...

*Maybe it means...

Today we practiced making inferences and the kids got to see things in Mrs. Selm's purse!  Here are a few things they found:  keys, wallet, lip gloss, cell phone, medicine, mints, etc.

The kids worked with a partner to pick two items and infer what it meant or why I had those items in my purse.  

Yesterday we worked on compound words so each student was given a card with part of a word and they had to find their partner that had the other matching half to make a compound word.  They were such hard workers!  Check out some of their inferences and partner work!