May 2012
3 posts
Parts of a Whole
Another busy week began with a lively videoconference all about Butterflies! The students made their own butterflies and reviewed the lifecycle of our favorite friends in preparation for their arrival in the classroom.
We continued our work on personal narrative writing. The students are developing their writing about memories. We are also working on our Homes and Shelters Unit in preparation...
Butterflies!
Mrs. Marcantonio began her SWES (school-wide enrichment services) push ins this week. We have been looking at houses and families from around the world and comparing them to our own lives and homes to make connections.
We began to write another personal story. This one is based on a memory of when we were younger. The students had a lively brainstorming session the other day coming up with...
Writing to Celebrate!
This week the students were very excited as we prepared for our Writing Celebration on Friday. We finished up our projects by using the writers’ statements “Writers use illustrations to make their work more intersting.”, “Writers choose titles that make sense.”, and “Writers create a cover that makes people want to read their book.” Their work was maing...
April 2012
2 posts
Busy Times!
These last two weeks have been very busy for the students! They are working on their Personal Narrative Writing pieces and they have been learning about how to make choices in writing, how to add sensory details, how to use quotations properly, and why writers use illustrations. All this and we have been following a different schedule due to the New York State Tests for the 3rd, 4th, and 5th...
Spring Has Sprung!
I hope everyone had a wonderful and relaxing Spring Break. We had a great week to prepare the students for it.
We began the week with our parents coming in for the CREW Read-In. It was so nice to have the parents who were able to join us in the classroom. Thank you both so much! Then we left immediately for Hofstra to see the Paperbag Players perform “Laugh, Laugh, Laugh!” The...
March 2012
4 posts
Great Guest Reader!
As we continued our Personal Narrative unit this week the students explored writing about special places and special people in their lives. They were very excited to share these special parts of their lives with each other.
In Math we learned about Timelines and how we can use them to look at the past. We looked at our lives on a timeline. We looked at our daily schedule, and we are building a...
Sailing into Outer Space
The first week of C.R.E.W. has been a wonderful success! We have enjoyed our exploration of Space as we learn a new word each day and read some non-fiction books on the topic. We are also beginning our new writing unit, Personal Narrative. We have begun to look at how writers write about their own lives and experiences.
In Math we worked on the concept of telling time to the quarter hour. We...
We Will Fix It!
The Nursery Rhyme Celebration was a terrific success and the Kindergarten students did a wonderful job with their lines and their songs. Their enthusiasm with the line “We will fix it!” for the nursery rhyme “London Bridge” brought a smile to everyone’s face. We were so glad that so many family members were able to join us for this event, see the Photo Story...
And We All Lived Happily Ever After...
What an AMAZING week for our class! First, everyone had such great vacations to tell about during “Weekend News”. Then we WON the class trophy in the Science Fair for our experiment about “Why Do Scientists Need To Follow Directions?” And to top it all off there was the MAGNIFICENT Fairytale Ball on Friday! We were so happy to have all of you come and visit us and see...
February 2012
2 posts
What a Wonderful Week We've Had!
We have had no shortage of activities to keep us busy this week! The students are continuing to work on their Fairytales and Nursery Rhymes Units. We are tying together all the things we have learned so far about characters, setting, plot, moral, problem and solution and seeing how it all fits to make a story work.
In math we started to investigate thermometers, and explore how to measure and...
And the Moral of our Story...
This week we explored the morals in Fairytales. The students looked at the lessons the characters learned in the stories we have been reading. We also began working on creating characters and settings of our own.
In math we investigated dimes. We counted and exchanged them for pennies or nickels, and then went back the other way.. The students worked very hard on this new concept and did great...
January 2012
4 posts
The Plot Thickens...
This week our Fairytale study explored to element of Plot. We learned that the story can also be called the plot and that the plot explains the main ideas of the story. We learned how to do a “Stop and Draw” - a technique where students draw and\or use a few words to capture ideas from the story while listening to a Read Aloud to help them retell the story later. Then we used the Stop...
The Best Setting
This week we learned all about setting in Fairytales. We discovered that the setting is WHERE (the place) and WHEN (the time) a story happens. We looked at a lot of fairytales and investigated the different settings to see if we could identify the Where and the When. It was very fun to be Fairytale detectives together!
Our Nursery Rhyme of the week was “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”...
Once Upon A Time
It has been a very exciting week as we began our Fairytale Study. There were a lot of wonderful ideas floating around the classroom!
We began by learning that characters are the people and animals in our stories and talking about how these characters are important to what we read and write. We looked at characters in Fairytales, in our reading, and in our writing. We also learned the rhyme...
Happy New Year!
Welcome to 2012! It promises to be a wonderful new year for everyone!
The children all came back with many tales to tell about their delight and excitement of the break and the adventures they had. This week we re-established our routines and got used to being together again. We wrote about what we did over the vacation and made New Year’s Wishes. We wrote winter poems to decorate our Poet...
December 2011
4 posts
Sing Along Fun
The Sing Along on Friday was a great success. Thanks to all who came to join in the fun!
This week was filled with lots of excitement and anticiption! The students worked hard on their gifts and created beautiful decorations for the classroom. We learned all about Christmas. We talked about how our families celebrate the holiday, and what a great guy Santa Claus is to do such nice things for...
Happiest of Holidays!
The excitement is growing with every passing day in our room! This week we learned all we could about Hanukkah. The students really enjoyed playing dreidel in the afternoons. They became very professional at it!
We continued our Mo Willems Study and learned more about the way he helps us think about friends, family and believing in ourselves. We read some of our favorite books again and it was a...
Winter is Joy
That is the title of our winter interactive writing piece…offered by one of the students…and echoed by Lisa and me! So far we have been very joyful and excited these days…sometimes very much so!
This week we have been learning all about winter. We began by brainstorming ideas about what we like to do in winter, then worked on the interactive writing piece (which will continue...
A Month of Celebrations
December has crept up on us pretty quickly! The students are were very excited to turn over the calendar to month number 12 as we get ready for all the exciting things December brings!
This week we have been learning skip counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s. We have tried counting many different things in these ways, particularly pennies (another thing we looked at this week). We have been continuing...
November 2011
3 posts
A Quick Update for a Short Week
Happy Thanksgiving! The students were thrilled to have only two days of school this week but we packed in a lot of learning into those two short days! We learned all about the Pilgrims and their long journey to America on the Mayflower and how they were so thankful to find the Native Americans to be so willing to help them. We learned how the Native American taught them to grow crops, to fish, and...
So Many Things To Be Thankful For...
The last two weeks have been filled with many exciting activities! We had a wonderful time on the trip to the Brookville Outdoor Education Center. We learned all about what life was like for colonial children. We dipped candles, pressed apples into cider, went to a colonial log home, and even tried being blacksmiths! It was so much fun we were sad to come back to our own time!
We have been...
Happy Halloween!
Starting out the week with the Halloween Parade made for a very fun time! Thank you to all the parents, grandparents, and great aunts who came to see our handsome ninja, power ranger, Ben 10, and Dragonoid march across the field! They had a wonderful time and I know they truly enjoyed the day all the more because they were able to share it with you!
This week we began working on our culmination...
October 2011
5 posts
Let's Take a Look at Library!
Our week has been very busy! We continued to work on our Functional Writing Unit with letters and notes this week. We talked about all the different reasons writers write letters to friends and family. In Reading, we continued to we continued to reinforce good habits of reading during group work, and address individual needs during 1:1 reading. In Math, we explored tally marks, collecting data,...
A Change in the Weather
It looks like the fall weather has finally taken hold. We had a great week…especially when we were able to go outside for recess! In class we learned about how writers make ads to show that their “stuff” is the best, and we learned about how writers make maps to show information in different ways. We had a treasure hunt on Friday to use a map and find our missing prize box! In...
Fall Fun
Our first field trip was FANTASTIC! We had a great time at Schmidtt Farms! The rain held off until we got back on the buses to go home so we had a grand, albeit muddy, day! Our teacher at the farm Miss Carmelina was very nice and she taught us many things about nature. We learned about the life cycle of the pumpkin, we picked pumpkins, radishes, and peas, we saw baby ladybugs, and we...
October Already?!?
Wow! I can’t believe it’s already October! The first month seemed to fly by. The students did very well adjusting to their new classroom community, making new friends, and establishing new routines.
This past week we learned about how writers use letters to communicate their feelings, and to ask for things they need. We worked on an acrostics poem using our names. We also had...
A Short but Busy Week!
Despite the short week we were very busy! In reading we began guided reading instruction, a real benefit of our small class size…each child is able to have one to one individualized reading instruction tailored to their needs…such a gift at this crucial time! In writing we learned how writers use letters to communicate and stay in touch with friends and family. In math we learned about...
September 2011
3 posts
Working Well Together!
We are well established as a community of learners now…therapy pull-out and push-ins are up and running (your child’s schedule will go home next week), we have gone to Library and Computers (the students really enjoyed these specials), and we even got to enjoy a very special treat this week! We visited with Mrs. Marcantonio for the Tipi Ted experience and shared a Native American...
Settling In To Our Routine
The first full week of school is always a big “test”of how things are going for the students…no more half days…specials, and therapies are all starting…we are beginning to get used to our routine!
I was so glad to see so many parents at Back to School Night. Your children were so excited to see your letters this morning! They all shared them together and read them...
What a Wonderful Week!
Well, the first week was a great success! They may have come in the door a little tentatively on Tuesday morning, but by this afternoon all four of the students said their favorite thing about this week was their new class and their new friends! Now that is definitely what a teacher wants to hear on the first week of school!
This week we read:
We Are In A Book by Mo Willems My Many Colored Days...
June 2011
6 posts
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
What is essential is...”
– Antoine de Saint Exupery - The Little Prince
Welcome Back to School!
Hello and welcome to Kindergarten and First Grade!
We hope you have been enjoying a wonderful summer with your family!
This year we are planning lots of fun and exciting things! We will be learning and growing together in our beautiful new classroom.
We can’t wait to see you!
love,
Mrs. Ebert & Mrs. Guiliano
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About Your Teacher - Mrs. Ebert
I live in Levittown with my husband, Mr. Ebert. He is a great guy! We have a cat named Theo, who is very bad! He gets into lots of mischief. We don’t have any children yet but we will be adopting a baby very soon, and we are excited to become parents.
This summer I went to Woodloch Pines with my family for a big reunion, and to California to visit my mom and dad. I love to read and to...
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is...”
– Antoine de Saint Exupery The Little Prince 