Mrs. Heinlein's Class

Friday, August 29, 2014

Open House

Thank you for coming to Open House! Here is the Presentation if you missed it :)

Also, if you are interested in helping our classroom and have any of these items at home, here is our wishlist that was on those little pink cupcakes :)

iTunes gift card for iPad apps
Colored card stock paper
White card stock paper
Craft supplies
Hawaiian Books
Liquid hand soap or paper towels (unfortunately, the school doesn't provide this for our rooms :(
Smelly Markers (Scentos or Mr. Sketch)
Old iPods that we can use for listening to audio books
Digital timers
Ink cartridges for my classroom printer - Cannon 226 Combo

Thanks again to everyone who came! Don't forget to sign up for Remind to get text message alerts from me! Go to http://remind.com and enter the class code @mrsheinl. You can also download the Remind app and enter the class code from your phone.

Thanks!

Thursday, August 21, 2014

Welcome to First Grade!

Aloha!
Welcome to first grade at Princess Nahienaena! I am so excited to be a part of your ohana!

Please make sure to come to Open House, next Thursday, August 28th at 5:30. I can't wait to show you our classroom and answer any questions you may have!

Having fun on the first day!

Saturday, May 31, 2014

Summer Reading

UH West Oahu campus has an online program for incoming 3rd graders to help with reading this summer!

These are the skills included in the program:

Learn long-word decoding skills
Develop fluency
Build comprehension
Become a strong, independent reader

Click here to learn more!

Monday, May 12, 2014

Author's Faire

We are amazing authors! All children did a wonderful job researching and creating a brochure about an animal from the Amazon Rainforest! They learned so much!

To help make sure all people at the Author's Faire could see our book, we made a quick video. It's not perfect, but I still think it's pretty special!

We wrote a book, The ABCs of Lanai, that inspired the song Mr. Matt Glickstein wrote for our school! Click on the picture below to see our video!

Here are some pictures of our Rainforest Unit:

Layers of the Rainforest

Leaf Cutter Ants

Green Iguanas

Colorful Fish

Jaguars

Toucans

Sloths

A brochure

Our songs

Getting ready to sing for our friends and family!

Monday, March 24, 2014

Economics

Quarter 4 brings the start of our economics unit in social studies! We kicked it off today by learning the difference between natural, human, and capital resources. We wrote about them in our journals and then found examples of them in magazines. The kids are great at distinguishing between them!

Digging through the magazines.

Finding the perfect photographs.

Deciding if its natural or capital.

Example of a journal.

Table 3 is all on task!

Table 4 is hard at work.

Table 5 is finding some great examples!

Table 1 is working together!

Definitions

Natural Resource: materials that are found in nature and that can be used by people in many ways. Fresh water, soil, coal, and forests are all examples of natural resources.

Capital Resource: goods produced and used to make other goods and services. Basic categories of capital resources include tools, equipment, buildings, and machinery.

Human Resource: the people who work for a business.