Week in Review

I am so grateful for full weeks of school.  We are able to get so much more done and the kids are loving the return to routine.  This week we were able to get in all of our rounds of Daily 5 which hasn't happened since January!

Everyone got a new reading group book this week.  Weekend reading bags are in backpacks.  Thank you so much to everyone who signed the form.  If you child reads the book more than once, you don't have to keep signing it.  We will use this paper hopefully until the end of the year.  One family kept a tally of how many times the book was read and I loved that idea too.  The kids were excited to tell me about who they read their book to.  

Here are our learning objectives for the week:

Reading:  segmenting and blending nonsense words, introduction to contractions, reading for punctuation, non-fiction text features

Writing:  Using diagrams in our work.  Anchoring our writing to the lines, Writing facts using the words can, are, have to help us.

Math:  3D shapes, adding numbers to 12, ordering numbers, understanding teen numbers

Sorting words into word families

Adding dominoes and putting them in numerical order

Using double tens frames to understand that teens are 10 + another number

Spelling 3 letter words

New puzzles at Daily 5

Each week we honor a new special me.  We read their favorite book, then we get to ask them questions about their favorite things.

 After that we write letters to them and draw pictures.

Things to Remember:

• Please return your child's reading group book in the weekend reading bag on Monday!  
• March 14 - Math Night - 6:00 - 7:30 - This was a really fun event last year.  We hope to see you there!
• March 20 - Spring Picture Day (We still don't have the picture forms.  Hopefully we will have them for you next week.)
• March 26-30 - No School - Spring Break

Five Days Finally!

It was so good to have a full five days this week.  We were able to jump back into our routines.  It was so nice to get back into our reading schedule with reading groups.  We also made it through a full five days of math stations.  This was new a couple weeks ago so it was wonderful for each student to make it to all of them in one week.  With hat day, crazy hair day, comfy day and dress up day, we definitely had some extra fun too.  We even got to visit a first grade classroom and read books with first graders.  This trimester our skills are really picking up.  The expectation for reading, writing and math is growing quickly.  Keep practicing at home!  Check your child's backpack for his or her reading group book from this week.  :)

Learning Objectives:  

Fundations:  e at the end of a word makes the other vowel say it's name.  We call this bossy e.  

Reading:  Reading strategies:  

• Look at the picture
• Tap it out
• Make the first sound and think what makes sense
• Look for parts of the word you do know.

Writing:  Non-Fiction Conventions - Diagram, Table of contents, pictures with captions.  We found these in read aloud books.  Next week we will try them in our writing.

Math:  Solving story problems, understanding addition and subtraction, using a number line to solve addition and subtraction problems.

Congrats to this friend for being a top seller of raffle tickets for the BEU circus!

Dancing about the nice weather

Library Check

PJ Day fun!

Dress like your favorite book character

Things to Remember: 

• Please return your child's reading group book in the special bag on Monday!  
• We have a daily snack.  Lots of our friends have forgotten to bring a snack lately.  I have a few fruit roll ups left from the valentine party to give when kids forget but they are going fast.  Please remind your child to grab a snack on the way out the door in the morning.  Our afternoon is long and I don't want anyone to be hungry!  Thanks!
• March 8 - Kindergarten Enrollment 4:30-6:30 - Tell anyone you know that has an incoming kindergartner!
• March 14 - Math Night - 6:00 - 7:30 (Information in the Friday Folder)
• March 20 - Spring Picture Day  
• March 26-30 - No School - Spring Break