Week 19 - January 25, 2019

Curriculum

Reading:
As readers we finished learning about what it means to read fluently.  Students learned that to read fluently, you should read using the punctuation, read with expression, read accurately and read at a good rate (not too fast or too slow).  Next week, we will begin a new unit learning about characters and character traits.  We will start reading books and noticing how the characters feel.  We will then talk about what the characters say or do and what they tells us about them as a person.

Book Baggies:
Please help the students remember to bring their book baggies every Friday.  I would like them to have an opportunity to read different books.

Writing:
This week as writers, we did a lot of practice writing How To books.  Next week, we begin a new unit writing opinion writing.  We will begin by reading mentor texts and noticing what published authors do in their writing.

Math:
In math this week, we focused on place value.  Students are learning to identify the tens and the ones.  They are learning to draw base-10 blocks and then identify the value of the digit in the tens place and the value of the digit in the ones place.  Next week, we will continue some of this learning.

IXL Skills - Use these activities as you wish to help your child with the skills we will be working on throughout this first trimester.

Science/Social Studies:
This week, the students had an opportunity to make paper cup phones as a way to communicate over a distance.  They are continuing to learn that sound travels in waves through different types of matter.  Plus, they are learning that sounds are made by vibrations.  Next week, we will compile our learning in our science notebooks.  

Purposeful Play
Please see the Purposeful Play tab on the blog to learn more about our weekly Play Time and donation items we could use for it!

Homework

• Read every night (you can read with your child, listen to them read or read to them - all of it helps).  Then talk about the book - who are the characters, what happened, why did it happen, make connections, what's the main idea, why did the author write the book, how did the author give you information, what features did the author use to help you as a reader
• Work on a math skill  
• counting forwards and backwards within 120 (and skip counting)
• adding and subtracting to 20 - play a board game for this
• telling time (What are the hands on the clock? How is a clock set up?)
• identify and count coins
• measuring - length and volume -  have your child cook with you to practice this
• talk about shapes - 2D and 3D - find items around your house, etc.) 

Specials Schedule

Monday: P.E. (Wear tennis shoes)
Tuesday: Art (Bring an Art shirt labeled with your child's name)
Wednesday: Music
Thursday: Media/Library
Friday: Rotates (See the back of your child's OWL folder (everyday folder) for a schedule.)

Important Dates

January 31: Multicultural Night (6:00-8:00pm)

February 7: Bingo Night (6-8pm)
February 18-19: No School - Mid-Winter Break
February 26: Science Fair (6-8pm)

Week 18 - January 18, 2019

Curriculum

Reading:
As readers, we've continued to revisit the 7 Habits of Happy Kids as a way to remember how to be safe, happy, and successful at school.  In addition, we have been learning to be fluent readers (to read accurately, at a good rate, to use the punctuation when reading).  Next week, we will continue to learn to be more fluent readers.

Book Baggies:
Please help the students remember to bring their book baggies every Friday.  I would like them to have an opportunity to read different books.

Writing:
This week, we wrote how to eat an Oreo.  Next week, we will continue to practice writing how to stories.

Math:
This week, we focused on subtracting 10 from a number.  In addition, we did some activities to continue to practice answering questions about data and adding and subtracting 10 to any number.  Next week, we will continue to work on building place value knowledge by using base 10 blocks as well as comparing numbers.

IXL Skills - Use these activities as you wish to help your child with the skills we will be working on throughout this first trimester.

Science/Social Studies:
As scientists this week, the students explored with tuning forks we also wrote what we learned from them.  We then read a book to learn more about sound waves and how to create a tool that will help us communicate over a distance.  After reading, the students decided they would like to make paper cup phones.  That is where we will start next week.

Purposeful Play
Please see the Purposeful Play tab on the blog to learn more about our weekly Play Time and donation items we could use for it!

Homework

• Read every night (you can read with your child, listen to them read or read to them - all of it helps).  Then talk about the book - who are the characters, what happened, why did it happen, make connections, what's the main idea, why did the author write the book, how did the author give you information, what features did the author use to help you as a reader
• Work on a math skill  
• counting forwards and backwards within 120 (and skip counting)
• adding and subtracting to 20 - play a board game for this
• telling time (What are the hands on the clock? How is a clock set up?)
• identify and count coins
• measuring - length and volume -  have your child cook with you to practice this
• talk about shapes - 2D and 3D - find items around your house, etc.) 

Specials Schedule

Monday: P.E. (Wear tennis shoes)
Tuesday: Art (Bring an Art shirt labeled with your child's name)
Wednesday: Music
Thursday: Media/Library
Friday: Rotates (See the back of your child's OWL folder (everyday folder) for a schedule.)

Important Dates

January 21: No School - MLK Day

January 31: Multicultural Night (6:00-8:00pm)

February 7: Bingo Night (6-8pm)
February 18-19: No School - Mid-Winter Break
February 26: Science Fair (6-8pm)

Week 17 - January 11, 2018

Curriculum

Reading:
In reading, we've been reviewing our Daily 5 expectations and practicing so that we can become better, more focused readers.  In addition, we've been reviewing the 7 Habits of Happy Kids.  We have talked about Habits 1-5 this week.  Next week, we will review the rest of the habits.  We will also continue to learn strategies that good readers use when they are stuck on words and strategies that help us better understand our reading.

Book Baggies:
Please help the students remember to bring their book baggies every Friday.  I would like them to have an opportunity to read different books.

Writing:
As writers, we began a class How To book.  We also did some other different types of writing this week.  Next week, we will continue to write How To books to help students learn the informational format of writing.

Math:
This week we learned how to add 10 to a number.  The students are starting to see how adding a ten changes the number.  This will help them build their place value knowledge and will help them later when adding harder numbers.  We have also been working on adding 3 addends and measuring items when units are already laid out for the students next to the item.  Next week, we will focus on subtracting 10 from numbers.  

IXL Skills - Use these activities as you wish to help your child with the skills we will be working on throughout this first trimester.

Science/Social Studies:
This week we learned more about sound.  Students were able to listen to different sounds to try to identify them.  They also saw a tuning fork and were excited to explore with them to see how to make different sounds and change the volume of them.  Next week, we will continue to explore with the tuning forks as well as other experiments that help the students to learn about sound, vibrations, volume and pitch.  

Purposeful Play
Please see the Purposeful Play tab on the blog to learn more about our weekly Play Time and donation items we could use for it!

Homework

• Read every night (you can read with your child, listen to them read or read to them - all of it helps).  Then talk about the book - who are the characters, what happened, why did it happen, make connections, what's the main idea, why did the author write the book, how did the author give you information, what features did the author use to help you as a reader
• Work on a math skill  
• counting forwards and backwards within 120 (and skip counting)
• adding and subtracting to 20 - play a board game for this
• telling time (What are the hands on the clock? How is a clock set up?)
• identify and count coins
• measuring - length and volume -  have your child cook with you to practice this
• talk about shapes - 2D and 3D - find items around your house, etc.) 

Specials Schedule

Monday: P.E. (Wear tennis shoes)
Tuesday: Art (Bring an Art shirt labeled with your child's name)
Wednesday: Music
Thursday: Media/Library
Friday: Rotates (See the back of your child's OWL folder (everyday folder) for a schedule.)

Important Dates

January 21: No School - MLK Day

January 31: Multicultural Night (6:00-8:00pm)

February 7: Bingo Night (6-8pm)
February 18-19: No School - Mid-Winter Break
February 26: Science Fair (6-8pm)