News for 1-29

Announcements:

• Our Valentines Day Party will be Wednesday, February 14th at 8:30. We will enjoy a breakfast treat, play some valentines day games, and make a craft. We will end our party with students passing out their valentine cards. We have 23 students in our class. On your cards please have students leave the TO line blank and only have your child write their name in the FROM line. This makes passing out valentine cards much easier on the day of our party. Thank you! 

• SNOW GEAR - Please have your students bring in a separate bag for snow gear (let me know if you need one). It is too much to put in their backpack. Please label snow pants AND boots and make sure to send in shoes to wear in the classroom as we keep the boots outside of our classroom. I will be sure to communicate with specials teachers to make sure students have on their coats, hats, gloves, and boots when leaving their classroom at the end of the day.
• SNACK - please make sure your child has a snack each day and they know where it is located. At this point in the year they can be responsible for making sure they put their own snack in their backpack :) Thank you! 
• OPINION ORAL PRESENTATIONS - Please check the calendar sent home for your child’s presentation day. I am asking them to bring something to school that they love. This item should fit in a bag so they can easily transport it. Please have them describe what they are sharing and give at least 3 reasons why they love it. 

Learning This Week:

• Readers will...
• get started as a nonfiction writer
• learn how to study nonfiction pages in a book
• learn more by chatting about what they see in nonfiction books
• reread to make sure they understand their nonfiction books
• share facts they learn with a partner
• Writers will...
• be immersed into opinion writing
• take a position and give reasons why
• explore and write about their collections
• add reasons to be convincing
• Mathematicians will...
• use two digit addition in real world situations
• continue to practice adding with tens and ones
• subtract with teen numbers
• Scientists will continue to learn about cold weather (snow/ice) and conduct an ice experiment! 

Specials This Week:

• Monday: Art
• Tuesday: Media
• Wednesday: Music
• Thursday: P.E.
• Friday: Art

Dates to Remember:

• 2/2 - Report cards come home via email
• 2/19-2/20 - Mid Winter Break, No school for students
• 2/23 - Snowball 6:30-8:30 pm

News for week of 1-22

Announcements:

• Our Valentines Day Party will be Wednesday, February 14th in the morning. More details to come next week on the exact time for the celebration. We have 23 students in our class. If you are purchasing valentine cards for each student please leave the TO line blank and only have your child write their name in the FROM line. This makes passing out valentine cards much easier on the day of our party. Thank you! 

• SNOW GEAR - Please have your students bring in a separate bag for snow gear (let me know if you need one). It is too much to put in their backpack. Please label snow pants AND boots and make sure to send in shoes to wear in the classroom as we keep the boots outside of our classroom. I will be sure to communicate with specials teachers to make sure students have on their coats, hats, gloves, and boots when leaving their classroom at the end of the day.

Learning This Week:

• Readers will...
• think about the story to problem solve words
• think about what kind of word would fit
• be like editors by listening and fixing up parts that don't sound right
• slow down to break up long words
• Writers will be writing small moment narratives for the next two weeks focusing more on the who, what, and where of the story and adding details with dialogue.
• Mathematicians will...
• learn counting on strategies for two digit numbers
• practice adding with two digit numbers
• learn and play addition games
• take the unit 4 test

Specials This Week:

• Monday: art
• Tuesday: media
• Wednesday: music
• Thursday: P.E.
• Friday: NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS

Dates to Remember:

• 1/26 - Teacher Work Day, No school for students
• 2/2 - Report cards come home via email
• 2/19-2/20 - Mid Winter Break, No school for students
• 2/23 - Snowball 6:30-8:30 pm

FIRST GRADERS SINGING OUR "READING BOSS" SONG

News for this week

Announcements:

• SNOW GEAR - Please have your students bring in a separate bag for snow gear (let me know if you need one). It is too much to put in their backpack. Please label snow pants AND boots and make sure to send in shoes to wear in the classroom as we keep the boots outside of our classroom. I will be sure to communicate with specials teachers to make sure students have on their coats, hats, gloves, and boots when leaving their classroom at the end of the day.

Learning This Week:

• Readers will...
• make a plan for their reading
• get help when they need it
• create new reading goals
• continue to practice book talk in their reading partnerships
• Writers will..
• publish their nonfiction cover on the computer
• edit their writing using a checklist
• celebrate their nonfiction writing with 5th grade buddies
• Mathematicians will...
• learn how to quick add a group of 10
• add with 10's and 1's
• use stick and circle drawings to help with addition two digit numbers
• review how to solve story problems

Specials This Week:

• Monday: NO SCHOOL
• Tuesday: art
• Wednesday: media
• Thursday: music
• Friday: P.E.

Dates to Remember:

• 1/15 - MLK Day, No school for students
• 1/22 - PTO meeting 7:00 pm
• 1/26 - Teacher Work Day, No school for students
• 2/2 - Report cards come home via email
• 2/19-2/20 - Mid Winter Break, No school for students
• 2/23 - Snowball 6:30-8:30 pm

Students playing a game where they add numbers until they get to 100.

News for the Week

I hope you all had a wonderful, relaxing break. Thank you all who donated towards my donors choose project to bring more books into our classroom. The project was funded and I will upload pictures as soon as the new materials arrive!

Announcements:

• SNOW GEAR - Please have your students bring in a separate bag for snow gear (let me know if you need one). It is too much to put in their backpack. Please label snow pants AND boots and make sure to send in shoes to wear in the classroom as we keep the boots outside of our classroom. I will be sure to communicate with specials teachers to make sure students have on their coats, hats, gloves, and boots when leaving their classroom at the end of the day.

Learning This Week:

• Readers will...
• review procedures, partnerships, and routines
• be the boss of themselves saying, "I can do this!"
• learn to cheer their partner on
• use everything they know to solve a word
• celebrate the growth they've made from entering first grade
• use a checklist to self monitor their reading
• Writers will..
• continue to write all about books
• print off pictures to use for their topic 
• edit on the go using appropriate punctuation
• add speech bubbles and bold words into their nonfiction books
• Mathematicians will...
• add with groups of 10
• make a 10 addition 
• practice with 10's and 1's
• use place value to compare numbers (greater than or less than)

Specials This Week:

• Monday: P.E.
• Tuesday: Art
• Wednesday: Media
• Thursday: Music
• Friday: P.E. 

Dates to Remember:

• 1/15 - MLK Day, No school for students
• 1/22 - PTO meeting 7:00 pm
• 1/26 - Teacher Work Day, No school for students
• 2/19-2/20 - Mid Winter Break, No school for students
• 2/23 - Snowball 6:30-8:30 pm