News from Mrs. Straw

Events:

-Feb. 12 2 hr. early out

-Feb. 14 Valentine’s Day Party

-Feb. 17 School Day (This is a make-up day)

What’s Happening in BUILD:

**This is a continuation from last week. 

B (Buddy Games)- Money and Place Value Games

U (Using Manipulatives)- Graphing  

I (Indpendently Working)-Recording true or false number sentences

L (Learning with Numbers)- Problem solving by adding specific amount of tens

D-(Doing Math)- Scootpad on laptops

Notes:

-I have included a class list for Valentine’s:

         

Jameson	Ava B.	Ava F.	Mason
Alex	Makenzie	Dylan	Celia
Aleah	Jocee	Addi	Lyric
Jackson	Bryce	Nathan	Jose
Mrs. Straw

What’s Happening in Daily 5:

*Listen to Reading (Bookflix)

*Read to Self

(Poems: Icy and Winter Weather)

*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 went to our third grade buddies room for them to read us their favorite picture book.

-On Friday we celebrated our last Super Achiever with a special lunch for our December and January winners.  

News from First Grade

Upcoming Events:

* Feb. 12 2 hr. early out

*Feb. 14 Valentine’s Day

*Feb. 17 Snow Day make-up

Notes:

* This week we celebrated the 100th day of school.  Students rotated around the first grade classrooms completing various 100th day activities.

*Last week we had several students out sick with various illnesses.  Please remind your children of good hand washing.  If your child does get sick please keep them home for 24 hours fever free so that other students don’t get infected.  

Things to Work on:

* 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.   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 5 in math.  We took our test on Friday.  We finished the unit the unit with adding teen numbers in story problems.

Science/ Social Studies: We have continued our unit on United States symbols.  Some of the symbols that we have learned about so far include the bald eagle, the U.S. flag, and the Liberty Bell.

News from Mrs. Straw

Events:

-Feb. 12 2 hr. early out

-Feb. 14 Valentine’s Day Party

-Feb. 17 School Day (This is a make-up day)

What’s Happening in BUILD:

B (Buddy Games)- Money and Place Value Games

U (Using Manipulatives)- Graphing  

I (Indpendently Working)-Recording true or false number sentences

L (Learning with Numbers)- Problem solving by adding specific amount of tens

D-(Doing Math)- Scootpad on laptops

 

Notes:

-I have included a class list for Valentine’s:

         

Jameson	Ava B.	Ava F.	Mason
Alex	Makenzie	Dylan	Celia
Aleah	Jocee	Addi	Lyric
Jackson	Bryce	Nathan	Jose
Mrs. Straw

What’s Happening in Daily 5:

*Listen to Reading (Bookflix)

*Read to Self

*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:

- We had a sub on Wednesday while I did testing in all of first grade.  We have made great progress since fall testing.  Tests that were conducted were: nonsense words, word segmenting, sight words, and reading an on grade level passage.