Tuesday, February 26, 2019

HI!

It's hard to believe this is the last week of February!  Where is this school year going?   We have a very busy next few weeks ahead of us.  We are constantly learning new material so it is important to remind your child to follow our be safe, be respectful, and be responsible rules!  

Here is what our week of learning will look like this  week:  

Reading and Writing  Workshop-  We will  continue our unit on folktales.   This week we will focus on fables!  The students love reading fables and when we discuss the moral of the story, I love how they are relating it to their own lives!  We have had some great conversations!
              We have also started planning our fractured fairy tale writing! Ask your child which fairy tale they are using and how they are going to change it for their very own fractured fairy tale!
Science/ Social Studies-  This week we will continue our unit on maps and globes. We will work on reading a map and creating our own pirate map!

Math-   We are beginning our unit on fractions. This week we will focus on equal and unequal parts.  We will also focus on halves, thirds, fourths, fifths, and sixths. 

Important Information:   We will take our spring and  class pictures on March 7 .  I am not sure of the time but hopefully before lunch :)   I am super excited to announce we will have a student teacher who will begin next week!  Her name is Rachel Sorensen and she will join our class on Monday.   She  will begin by observing our routines and procedures and then she  will begin teaching lessons that we have  planned  together.   I am excited to share our excitement of learning with her.  If you are in the building, please feel free to say hi to her! 

STEAM Supplies:  As usual, we need paper towel rolls and toilet paper rolls!  For our STEAM project this week, we will also need wooden craft sticks, tissue paper,  and plastic Easter eggs!  You can send those in so we can have them for Friday.  

Class Brighteners:  We would like to wish Lori  a very Happy Birthday!  She will celebrate her birthday this week!  We would like to say Congratulations to Serenity!   She lost a tooth this week!    Our  Pleasing Penmanship Award goes to Farrah and Tyler  this week!  These two always put forth their best effort in everything they do!

Sunday, February 10, 2019

HI!

Welcome to a crazy week of learning! We will have our Valentine's Party on Thursday, February 14.  We will have stations this time so if you are planning on attending, don't be surprised if you are in charge of a station/ activity.  Also, since the day will be full of excitement,  we will do our STEAM activity that day instead of Friday! We will try to make a candy box that will hold five chocolate kisses! If they succeed, they will get to keep the chocolate kisses :)  

Here is what our week of learning will look like next week:  

Reading and Writing  Workshop-  We will  continue our unit on Folktales.   This week we will focus on classic folktales like the Three Little Pigs, Little Red Riding Hood, Tikki Tikki Tembo, and The Gingerbread Man. We will also begin looking at Fractured Fairy Tales which are my absolute favorite!
Science/ Social Studies-  We made our salt maps and a huge thank you to all the moms who mixed and made a mess with us :)  We are hoping they dry so we can begin painting our landforms this week! This week we will focus on our map unit. We will focus on cardinal directions and learning how to read a map.  

Math-   We will continue  our unit on three digit place value. This week we will focus on comparing three digit numbers and looking at three digit numbers on a number line. 

Important Information:   We will have our Valentine's Party on Feb. 14 at 1:30. We will hand out 
Valentine's cards.  I sent home a list of names so if you do not have one, let me know!  We had so many friends out sick it was hard to keep track of who received a list!  

Class Brighteners:  We would like to wish Tatum  a very Happy Birthday!  We hope your day was special!  This week we are beginning our Pleasing Penmanship Award!  This award will go to one or two students a week who display neat, quality work across the curriculum! They will receive special writing tools only they can use for the week. These include mechanical pencils, special erasers, and their own set of smelly markers in a fancy pencil holder! The two students who earned this award are Emma and Sebastian! Congratulations!

Have a great week!
HI!

Wow!  It's hard to believe it's already February!  This school year is flying by!  We are staying 
super busy and learning new things each week!  It is so important to remind your child to stay 
focused and on task! As the year progresses, I know it gets harder and harder!  

Here is what our week of learning will look like next week:  

Reading and Writing  Workshop-  We will  begin our unit on Folktales.  We will begin with fairy
tales and this week we will study Cinderella  around the world! This is such a fun unit and the
students really enjoy the texts we read.
Science/ Social Studies-  We will wrap up our landform  unit.  I would love to make salt maps
with our class so if you are willing to help make the dough, please respond to this email and I 
will send directions!  I would need the dough by Friday this week.  We will also begin our unit on
maps this week.  

Math-   We will begin our unit on three digit place value. This week we will focus on the various
forms of a number ( standard form ,  (124), expanded form,  (100+20+4=124), base ten blocks,
and word form.).  

Important Information:   We will have our Valentine's Party on Feb. 14 at 1:30. We will hand out 
Valentine's cards so I will send home  a list with our names. If your child passes out cards, 
please make sure they give one to everyone in the class. Thanks!

Class Brighteners:  We would like to wish Miguel a very Happy Birthday!  We  also want to say
Congratulations to Lori! She lost a tooth this week!

Have a great week!