March

Celebrating Curiosity! On Friday, March 16, Webber will host our fourth annual Discovery Fair, an evening celebration of science, technology, and the arts. Many exciting activities are planned! All Webber students are invited to submit projects to the Discovery Fair. Students can enter anything that allows them ask questions and make discoveries about themselves and the world around them.  Project entry forms with complete details will come home soon. What will YOU discover? 

March is Reading Month Information and Dates! 

Our theme for this year is "PAWS FOR BOOKS!" We will be nurturing students’ love of reading at Webber with a month full of fun activities! Here is a look at our upcoming festivities…

• Week of March 1-2
• Students are encouraged to bring in a printed picture of them reading to a pet.  The pet can be real, stuffed,  grandma's, etc.  The pictures will be going up together on one big display. Please bring them in as soon as possible! 
• 3/2 - Furry Friday Reading (bring in a blanket to stuffed animal up with as we read)
• Week of March 5-9
• Wacky Wednesday’s Begin: March 7 Mismatched Day.  To participate students should bring in a small donation from loose change to a few dollars.  All funds collected will be donated to the Oakland County Animal Shelter in Pontiac.  It is going to be a ‘Dog vs. Cat’ collection.  Student council members will be coming around in the morning to collect the money from each class.  Your students will choose if they like dogs or cats best, by placing their donation into the correct bin. The totals collected for ‘Dog vs. Cat’ will be announced on the News Show each Friday.
• Oakland County Animal Shelter will be visiting Webber on Friday,  March 9.  The students will have the opportunity to meet a furry friend and hear about how to be a responsible pet owner, pet care and correct way to approach a stray animal. Dogs will be leashed at all times. Please let me know of any pet allergies. 
• 3/9 - Furry Friday Reading (bring in a stuffed animal to snuggle up with as we read)
• Week of March 12-16
• One day this week students will swap with another class and listen to a teacher read his or her favorite animal read aloud
• Wacky Wednesday, March 14 - Dress to Impress Day (donations to Oakland County Animal Shelter)
• 3/16 - Furry Friday Reading (bring in a stuffed animal to snuggle up with as we read)
• Week of March 19-23
• One day this week, students will have a classroom Read-in ‘Paw’ty where they can wear pajamas, bring in their favorite stuffed pet and enjoy a ‘Doggy Bag” of treats. Details to come! 
• Students will get to meet a therapy dog this week
• Wacky Wednesday, March 21 - College Day (donations to Oakland County Animal Shelter)
• 3/23 - Furry Friday Reading (bring in a stuffed animal to snuggle up with as we read)
• Week of March 26-29
• Students will meet a K-9 Unit dog and handler
• Wacky Wednesday, March 28 - Dress as your favorite Book Character day

*To keep our reading celebration happening at home, reading BINGO packets will be sent home this week. Please return each BINGO on the due date. Your child will earn paw tickets for each BINGO they return. These paw tickets will be entered in a drawing to receive book fair cash!*

Photos of  students marking interesting parts in their nonfiction books becoming read aloud experts

This Week

Valentines Day Party Photos

More Valentine's Day Photos from Mrs. Shaw can be viewed here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/Yi0zTBDK3wRhATR72

On Thursday, Eni and his mom spent time teaching us about the Chinese New Year that starts Friday, February 16th! We learned about the legend of the dragon, made Chinese lanterns, and celebrated by receiving a red envelope with "white rabbit" candy and a gold coin!

...and here is a video of friends saying thank you in Chinese

News for 2-5

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!  
• We will make bags the week of Valentines Day in class to store our cards. You DO NOT need to bring in a box or bag for cards. Thanks! 

• 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...
• work on fluency, including stress and intonation while reading
• celebrate learning and create new goals
• not let the hard words get in the way
• crash word parts together to solve the whole word
• be flexible with vowels
• Writers will...
• expect disagreement
• award booby prizes for more practice and more fun
• boost arguments by being more convincing
• use quotation marks to show dialogue
• Mathematicians will...
• add and subtract with teen numbers
• play the number grabber game
• use addition to solve subtraction 

Specials This Week:

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

Dates to Remember:

• 2/14 - Valentines Day Party 8:30-9:15
• 2/19-2/20 - Mid Winter Break, No school for students
• 2/23 - Snowball 6:30-8:30 pm

Pictures from our Ice Race Experiment

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