News From Mrs. Straw

Events:

-Dec. 20 (1 hr. early out)

-Jan 6 (1^st day back from winter break)

What’s Happening in BUILD:

**(We have continued the same BUILD due to Christmas program practice.)

B (Buddy Games)- Games with addition and subtraction

U (Using Manipulatives)- Roll two dice, add the sum and color the matching sum

I (Indpendently Working)-Christmas math packet with number identification

L (Learning with Numbers)- Problem solving by adding three numbers

D-(Doing Math)- Scootpad on laptops

Notes:

-Some fun writing ideas are:

          -use fun writing tools such as

markers, gel pens, crayons, pencils,

etc.

-Take turns writing back and forth to your child! Leave a note by their bed or in their lunchbox.

-Math game: Use an empty egg carton as a counting tool to practice addition and subtraction skills up to 10.  Simply place objects in the slots, and use the empty slots to count up to/from 10.

What’s Happening in Daily 5:

*Listen to Reading (Bookflix)

*Read to Self (I Read, You

Read…Snowman)

*Read to Someone

*Word Work

        -Highlight specific features in   

           poems

        -Practice reading sight words and

          Phrases

       -Word Journeys (cut and sort words

         and write sentences with words)

*We will be using our work on writing time during our class writing block.

Week in Review:

- This week we wrote about what the Holidays mean to them.