Spelling Lists

Jan. 4 

Tommy/Maria                                                        

1. tiger                                                                 

2. clown                                                               

3. acrobat                                                             

4. lion-tamer                                                        

5. circus                                                               

Emma/Matt

1. game

2. toy

3. doll

4. ball

5. train

Greetings Everyone!!

I hope you all had a lovely holiday.  Ours was very nice.  Well, the days are winding down to the end of the holiday break for the students and also are winding down to the day of my surgery.  I am here at school today continuing to work to leave good lesson plans for my students.  I will be checking my school email periodically to make sure everything is going ok.  Please remember that you can contact Mrs. Holton through my school email darleen.cordero@dmps.k12.ia.us -- please let her know if you have any concerns or questions.  Thank you so much.  

Mrs. Cordero 

                           We Made Holiday Fun!

     On Wednesday, December 16, 2009, we made a card and candy pretzels.  It was fun!  When we finished our activity, we had hot chocolate and holiday cakes.  Yummy!! 
     Happy Holidays, Everyone!! 

Greetings

We had a fun day yesterday making some Christmas goodies.  We will write about our activity tomorrow and post it in the blog.  Stay tuned... 

Mrs. Lisa Holton

Greetings Parents and Friends,

      I would like to introduce you to Mrs. Holton.  She will be my substitute teacher for the next 6 to 8 weeks.  Unfortunately, I will be out due to medical needs.  I will have surgery on Dec. 31st.  I hope to be back with my students sometime in February.  I will miss them but am greatly encouraged to know that a very capable substitute teacher will be with them during these next several weeks.  Mrs. Holton is from Minnesota.  She recently moved to Iowa with her husband.  She has worked as a teacher of the Deaf/HH in Minnesota for the past several years.  She is a SKILLED signer!!  I couldn't be happier to be able to leave my students in such capable hands!  Please know that you can contact her at my school email address after Winter break.  She has access to my email account and can reach me at home, if needed. 

      Today Mrs. Holton was with me all day as a "shadow substitute" so that she can make a smooth transition into my classroom.  She has been updated on all of my student's IEP's and important information.  She will be provided with lesson plans/schedule, etc. to facilitate the students receiving all of the lessons and instruction that needs to happen for them.  Please let me or Polly know if you have any concerns or questions.  I want you to know I've worked hard to make the transition as smooth as possible.  

Thank you so much, 

Mrs. Cordero

Hmmm...Will it look like this tomorrow?

If yes, stay warm, stay safe, and enjoy the snow day!

Greetings Everyone!!

I'm told that snow could be arriving soon!  It feels cold enough for it!!

We've been experiencing some illness here at school.  I was out for the afternoon yesterday but the students did well.  One of our classmates has been out since Tuesday  :(  

We're working hard to make sure everyone is washing their hands!!  Several staff members have been out, as well as many students.  Yes, 'tis the season...  :(   -- Hopefully, we will get our "bugs" out of our systems before the holidays! 

We've been working hard to add new words to our vocabularies!!  Please continue to fingerspell words to your young folks with explanations of meaning.  They need lots of exposure to words, words, words!!  

Hope you have a nice weekend!

Mrs. Cordero 

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

I hope you all enjoy a wonderful family holiday. No homework for my students. Enjoy your 5 day weekend!

Mrs. Cordero

We had a good day today.  I needed to be out this a.m. and the students did very well with the substitute teacher.  Good job, kids!!  This afternoon, our students worked on verb charts.  We are learning about how verbs are used in sentences.  If you happen to have situations where you are talking about "actions" - you might discuss with your child what the verb is and how it changes depending on when the action happened.  Thank you for any support you can offer.  Remember, it takes a village to raise a child :)  Have a wonderful weekend!  

Mrs. Cordero 

Field Trip

Weaving at the Historical Museum

Mrs. LeBlanc's students enjoyed a field trip today!  One of the things they learned about was weaving and looms!  Very interesting!  If they come home this evening trying to describe what they experienced, perhaps this blog entry will help!  :)   I hope they will write to me in their journal all about their experience!  

News Flash!!

Capitol View Principal, Mrs. Johnson has told the students they must have a coat to wear outside.  If no coat, they cannot go outside for recess. 

Greetings Everyone!

Early dismissal today means a short time for reading and writing instruction.  I hope the students will work on writing in their journal and doing their evening reading.  Everyone did good work today!  Most of the students have finished writing about their sewing activity.  We will be putting together our "books" soon.  I'm waiting to hear if we can get our pages printed by the East zone office.  Hopefully we will be able to get nice color pages printed for our books.  Hope you all have a nice evening!  

NEWS FLASH!!

No homework for Mrs. Cordero's students tonight due to Music Concert at CV

Good Worker Prize Winner of the Day!!

Great job!!

Several students are coming to school with unfinished homework.  Also, some students are doing the homework on the bus or in the transportation car and asking the driver to sign for their homework.  Parents need to sign the homework sheet please.  Please check to make sure your child is doing their homework.  Thank you. 

Good Worker Prize Winner of the Day!!

Great job!!

Good Morning!

Our new spelling lists are here!

E.K.             T.N.
buy               sparkle
again             floor
come            walls
bring             almost
                
M.R.
bear
fish
come
grow

We appreciate any and all support from families  : o )

Hi everyone!

We've worked hard this week! Two great spelling tests! Congratulations to E.K. AND K.Y.

Great job!

We have survived the sugar rush of Halloween 2009!  Yay!

Great job! T.N. and M.C. with your science explorations!

Happy Halloween!! Help our young ones to be safe! :)

Greetings!!

Our Halloween language experience project was fun!  Some students aren't quite finished yet.  They can finish up at home.
These are  "pumpkin mats" for sitting your Jack-o-Lantern on.  Now we can begin the work next week of writing about our experience.  Stay tuned to our blog for our stories...

A few pictures of our handiwork :

 

 

Hi Everyone,

 Here is the first pumpkin mat !!

We worked together to make the stitches.

Good job!!

Hi Everyone,

We've done some fun things today!  This a.m. we had a science activity with Mrs. Wood's class.   The goal was to estimate how many seeds were in each group's pumpkin.  We discovered there were many more seeds than we predicted!

We had a great time doing our investigation!  Many of us were happy to wash our hands at the end of the activity!!!



Tomorrow, we will eat roasted pumpkin seeds!!

Homework Time

Working hard!

Hi Everyone!

Whew! It's been a long week!  I think we're all still in the "vacation mode".  The students have worked hard though.  I think we're all ready for the weekend.  After all of our media forms are turned in, we can start posting some pictures and writing our entries into the blog.  That will be fun writing to do!  I look forward to some fun times ahead!

Greetings Everyone!

Wow, our 3 week break is almost at an end.  I look forward to seeing my students again! Here is my sewing studio - I spent a lot of time here during these past few weeks! Now, I'm starting to think about our project that we started.  I will bring your placemats to school and we will start writing about our sewing activity! See you soon!
Mrs. Cordero

Miss Cate

Greetings Everyone!  We discovered an abandoned kitty at our church doors.  She had been there for 2 days.  We brought her home and we are trying to locate her owner.  In the meantime, as you can see, she is making herself at home.  Since she was discovered at St. Catherine's , we've started calling her Miss Cate.  The lost and found ad will be in the Des Moines Register today, tomorrow and Friday.  If someone is searching for their kitty, we sure hope they find out through the church secretary, the ARL, or the newspaper. If no one comes to claim her, she will become our new found family member.  Miss Ally, our little Yorkie/Shih tzu has decided Miss Cate can be tolerated.  Miss Cate doesn't mind Miss Ally at all.   Stay tuned to Mrs. Cordero's classroom blog for further updates! :)

Have a wonderful Fall Break!!!!!

Please watch for some entries in the blog of Mrs. Cordero's travels.  Students can read the blog and see the pictures!! 

We worked hard today!!

Remember to study your spelling words and write in your journal!  

: )  See you at school tomorrow!  Only 2 more days of school!!

We had a great day today!

                        We started this week's language experience activity.  We are making a Halloween placemat.
                        When we are finished, we will write about our activity in our journal.  Please be sure to watch
                        for the journal entries with pictures!

We will post pictures and news on this blog everyday! Please join us!

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