Week of November 26

Upcoming Events:

J Dec. 12 Early Out (2 hr.)

JDec. 18 K-1 Music Concert at 7pm at Emmetsburg High School auditorium.  Students need to arrive by 6:30.  (More information to come.)

J Dec. 21 Early Out (1 hr.)

Notes:

JWhen you pick up your child from school please pick them up at the south doors in the parking lot.  This will prevent students from walking across in front of the buses and other cars.

JThis week our word work choices were: newsy words, memory game, boggle, write-stamp-decorate, and write spelling words across and down. 

JLast week we started picking our own daily 5 choices and students are really enjoying this responsibility.  I am pleased with how well they are staying on task and working.

JOur testing strategy that we worked on this week was:

          -Listen to the sentence.  Think before you make your choice.

Things to Work on:

JPlace Value: Say two digit numbers and have your child tell you how many tens and how many ones.

What we have been up to:

Reading: This week we read the story If You Take a Mouse to School.  We worked on sequencing this story with first, next, then, and finally.  We also talked about how important it is to visualize while you are reading a story to help retell the story later.  This week we worked on cl, fl, and bl blends. 

Math: We have continued our study on place value.  We talked about two-digit numbers and how many tens and how many ones each number has.  This week we completed some story problems by adding tens. 

Science: We have finished our unit on animal classifications and taken our test.  We started talking about the habitat of animals.  We started the week by drawing habitats and making a forest with construction paper.  We also compared a lake habitat to an ocean habitat.