Friday, January 11, 2019

News for this week


Important Dates:
  • 1/18 Half Day for Students
  • 1/21 - MLK Day, No School for Students
  • 1/25 - Report cards sent out electronically via email, to parent 1, in PowerSchool at 4:00 p.m.
  • 2/14 - Valentine's Day Celebration time: TBD
  • 2/15 - 1/2 day for students
  • 2/18-2/19 Mid Winter Break - No School for Students
Learning This week:
  • Writers will...
    • use all they know to plan for new chapter books
    • do research to help them say more
    • edit "on the go" 
    • use craft moves learned in small moments 
  • Readers will...
    • work on fluency (stress and intonation)
    • celebrate learning and create new goals
    • don't let hard words get in their way
  • Mathematicians will...
    • add 10's and 1's 
    • complete the quarter 2 common assessment
    • count on from 2 digit numbers
  • Scientists will...
    • be introduced to sea turtles hatching from their shells
    • observe animals and their babies
    • discover what will help a sea turtle survive
  • In phonics we will...
    • spell words part by part
    • use a vowel in every word
    • karate chop words to read them part by part
    • use snap word power in our writing

Photos from the week:
Breaking words apart and crashing them together in phonics

Our MLK Jr. Day project to be displayed at the High School



Studnets use 10's and 1's to add to 100 in the game 100 Ants




Having a mini celebration of our nonfiction chapter books with Miss Weaver's friends




Finding -ill and -ell word patterns


Using our nonfiction books to help us in our nonfiction writing


Using 10 sticks and 1's to represent 2 digit numbers