Friday, February 1, 2013

Week of Jan. 28


Upcoming Events:
J Feb. 13 2 hr. early out
JFeb. 14 Valentine’s Day 
JFeb. 18 No School, President’s Day

Notes:
J Our snow day from Monday will be made up on May 22.
J This week we celebrated the 100th day of school.  Students rotated around the first and second grade classrooms completing various 100th day activities.

Things to Work on:
J Make a mental picture or mental image when reading.  This will help build comprehension.  

What we have been up to:
Reading: This week we worked with long /u/ words.  Students who passed the spelling test on Monday received a challenge spelling list with the same skill that we are working on.  Our theme this week was about recycling.  We will spend more time talking about this closer to Earth Day.  Students did a great job understanding what recycling means.    
Math: This week we finished Unit 6 in math.  We will take our test on Monday.  We finished the unit talking about congruent shapes, 3D shapes, and continuing patterns.
Science/ Social Studies: We have started a new science unit on matter. This week we worked on defining matter with an activity using a balloon and a block.   

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