What is Compass Odyssey?

CompassLearning Odyssey® is another online resource available to all DCPS students. I use this software in the classroom as a tool to help reinforce or build skills and concepts in language, reading, math and science. This software is available to your child on any computer that has Internet access.

To access Compass Odyssey, your child’s needs his/her assigned username and password.

Has your child checked what in his/her Compass backpack lately?

What is Destination?

Destination Learning Management™ DLM4 gives educators the tools and training they need to provide effective, individualized, standards-based reading and math instruction and assessment. This is another online resource available to all DCPS students. I use this software as a tool to assess or help build foundational skills and concepts in math and reading. This software is available to your child on any computer that has Internet access. To access Destination Learning, your child’s needs his/her assigned username and password.

Has your child had a chance to access Destination lately?

What is Number Worlds?

To me (the teacher)… Number Worlds is an online resource I use as a tool to assess or build foundational skills and concepts in math. To your child (the student)… it’s computer fun time!

To access Number Worlds, each child is given a membership card containing his/her unique login name (username) and password.

Remember, this is a tool available to your child in the classroom. In addition, this fun interactive software is accessible to your child wherever he/she uses a computer with Internet access (i.e. at home or library).

Has your child had a chance to explore Number Worlds lately?

We Are Family!

Fact Families are used to help students learn the relationship between addition and subtraction. Understanding the inverse relationship between addition and subtraction can be used to find subtraction facts.

How can you help at home? Give your child a math sentence/equation (i.e. 10-4 = 6) and asked them to tell you all of the related math sentences/equations. Remember, the same numbers are in each math sentence/equation in a fact family.

Have you visited this month's Standards Based Bulletin Board (SBBB)?

How's My Child Doing?

Wondering about your child's progress at school? Remember your child's grades can now be viewed online. All it takes is logging onto the parent's grade portal with your user name and password for each child enrolled in Duval County Public Schools.

Do you have your user name and password?

Spring Break Activities

Looking for more activities to do during Spring Break? There are resources and activities availalble online. Remember to check your binder for your login information and password.

Sharing our Family Work

During closing, sharing our work after determining with a partner a fact family.

This group pulled the cards 4 and 7 (the parts) and determined together it makes 11 (the whole). Then they wrote the equations that had a relationship with those three numbers:

4 + 7 = 11

7 + 4 = 11

11 - 4 = 7

What is the missing related subtraction math sentence?

Previewing the Show

Today, we were invited to a kindergarten classroom to view their Reader's Theater in preparation of their upcoming Eric Carle Celebration.

Thank you for the wonderful show!

End of Day Read Aloud

After cleaning up and packing up, we relaxed for our end of day read aloud of Second Grade Rules, Amber Brown, by Paula Danziger.

The book is placed under the document camera and projected onto the board for all to follow along as text is read and illustrations are displayed.

What is your favorite way to end your school day?

We Love Writing Time!

Today, we worked on writing character comparisons.

What did you write about today?

Kevin Henkes Celebration Day

Today, we dressed as mice, made purple purses & movie star glasses, ate cheesy snacks while watching a movie, played KH BINGO and board games.

What was your favorite part of the day?

Happy St. Patrick's Day

A playful leprachaun visited our classroom today while we were at lunch/recess...

Did you have anything unusual happen to you today?

Book Club

Today, we read Lilly's Big Day, by Kevin Henkes. Lilly wants to be a flower girl.

Then we had group discussions...

Can you give an example of a time when you were really dissappointed?

Rehearsal Time

Reading through our scripts for our Henkes Reader's Theater...

Did you practice reading your lines today?

Compound Words

Working on what makes a compound word.

Our favorite activity this morning, was this interactive song.

Want to hear the song? Check out the Compound Boogie...

Can you list any other compound words?

Reading in Science

Today's read aloud included the book The Housefly, written by Peter Garland.

Do you know the life cycle of a housefly?

Discussion Groups

Discussing comprehension questions with our Book Club members.

How do you prove your answer from a reading passage?

Retelling Favorite Story

Do you have a favorite story? Can you retell it?

Alphabetizing Weekly Words

Morning Warm Up: Putting my weekly words in ABC order.

Tinkering with Birdhouses

Working with our partners to build on our designed birdhouse.

What have you tinkered with lately?

What is the Difference?

Today, we worked with number lines in order to figure out the difference.

Listen to this first grader try to explain someone else's strategy during closing discussion:

What strategy would you use to figure out the difference?

Retelling with Puppets

Today, we worked with a partner and puppets on retelling Owen.

Here a couple of first graders retelling an event...

How would you retell the story?

Farm-tastic Field Trip!

Today was a wonderful day at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens.

What was your favorite exhibit?

Batter Up!

The Past...


The book Apple Batter by Deborah Turney Zagwyn was a Book of the Month eleven years ago.



The Present...
Today, we had a guest reader. Our principal, Mrs. Phillips, visited our class and read to us this former Book of the Month.

The Future...
"Persevere to meet your goals. Today's practice helps you become better tomorrow." ~ Susan Phillips