Feb. 4 news

Upcoming Events

·       Friday, Mach 1^st -reading month kick-off theme Red Carpet Reading – Wear Red this Friday!

·      Friday, March 1^st – Pastries with Parents (grades K & 1) 7:30-8:10 to eat together and then 8:10-8:40 in the room for activities.

·      Friday, March 8^th – Wear Your Words Dress-up Day

·      Sunday, March 10^th – Daylight Savings – Spring Forward

·      Friday, March 15^th – Dress up as a Movie Star Day

·      Friday, March 15^th – Irish Dance Assembly at 1pm

·      Sunday, March 17^th – St. Patrick’s Day

·       Monday, March 18^th – Delayed start & Wear Green Day

·       Friday, March 22^nd – ½ day of school before break

·       Friday, March 22^nd – PJ day, popcorn, & a play.

·       Spring Break – March 23^rd – March 31^st

·       Monday, April 1^st – Classes resume

·       Friday, April 5^th – Sophomore Carnival

·       Fridays, April 12^th & 26^th – Kindergarten Round-up – No K

·       Good Friday, April 19^th – No School

This week in class!

Language Arts:  - Essential Question –How are the seasons different?

Letters of the week – Bb & Ll

Sight words of the week – is & little

Vocabulary words – weather, seasons, migrate, active, spot, pattern

Category words – season words

Reading –CAFÉ reader friend – Digger Dog, Repair Bear, Skippy Frog (skip it and then come back, if you are stuck on a word)

Reader’s workshop – Monitor and fix p while you read, check for understanding. Fluency practice and practice RAZ kids (online reading program), I pick – a Good Fit book, reading to self – student selected books, partner reading too.

Grammar – Nouns & plural nouns

Writing – Journal entries, small moments - immersion, opinion sentences, handwriting practice Bb & Ll

Math:

5.11 – Growing train (homelink)

5.12 – Number scrolls

5.13 – Shape combinations

6.1 – Body Heights & String (homelink)

Social Studies: - Open Book Ch. 3

Maps – Where Are We?

1.      How can we tell where we are?

2.     What are the most important places in our school?

3.     How can we show people where we are?

Science: - completing our slides & barrier building.

Technology: - RAZ kids, hideout, Splash Math

Our Report Cards!

I’m going to be trying very hard this week to finish up all my math assessments so that I can get the reports & test scores out to you.  My goal was to have it all completed and ready to go out by this Friday, and then we got another snow day!  I’m going to be checking with the other teachers and see where they are all at to determine what day will be best to send them out.  Thank you for your patients! 

I have contacted most parents via phone or in a conference to give you a heads up on your child’s progress.  If I somehow missed you, please email me or call so we can set up an appointment or we can have a quick phone conference.

Happy March Birthday

To Hannah!

Pastries with Parents

On this Friday, March 1^st, there will be Pastries with Parents in the morning, in the cafeteria.  This is taking place of Muffins with Moms & Donuts with Dads.  Parent are to enjoy treats together in the cafeteria from 7:30 – 8:10am.  Then parents are welcomed into the classrooms for fun activities that they can do together until 8:40 am. All parents are encouraged to attend.  Please return the purple slip if you plan on attending, so the cooks can prepare enough.  Looking forward to seeing all of you there.

It is also our Reading Month Kick-off day – The students are asked to wear Red this Friday, for our RED CARPET READING Theme.

Kindergarten Round-upIt is just around the corner for anyone looking for kindergarten next school year.  There will be two Fridays in April, where we will not be having class for our kinders due to round-up. The dates are April 12^th & April 26^th.  If you know of anyone interested in kindergarten for next school year, please have them contact MaryBeth in the elementary school office to schedule an appointment.

Due to so many snow days, the kiddos have seemed to have really lost some basic skills.  Handwriting practice, blending CVC (consonant vowel consonant) words, and reading skills.  Please devote a few extra minutes to your kiddos to practice reading the attached CVC reading sheet and fluency practice pages.  The kiddos should be able to smoothly blend these words into what they are, not so slow like [r]….[e]….[d].  I am also sending home some of our Ee pages that we were unable to get through due to so many days off.  They do not need to be returned but it would be good practice for everyone to complete at home.  Thank you for your commitment to helping out your sweet kiddos, they have progressed so well this year and I just want to see that growth continue until the end of the year!  Again, thank you for all that you do for your little angels.