News from Mrs. Straw

Events:

-Jan. 20 No School (MLK Day)

-Jan. 23 Sub (I will be in the building doing testing all day)

-Jan. 28 100^th Day

-Feb. 12 2 hr. early out

What’s Happening in BUILD:

***We continued the same build this week.  On Thursday and Friday we learned a new math game to practice counting money.  It is called Penny, Nickel Dime Exchange.  A student rolls a die and then takes the appropriate amount of pennies.  When they have 5 pennies to can trade for a nickel, when they have 10 pennies or 2 nickels they can trade for a dime. 

B (Buddy Games)- Top it with greater than, equal to, and less than symbols.  Students flip over a card and record which number is greater.

U (Using Manipulatives)- More Before and After.  Students draw a number and record the two numbers before and after their number on the card.

I (Indpendently Working)-Fact Family Houses

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

D-(Doing Math)- Scootpad on laptops

What’s Happening in Daily 5:

*Listen to Reading (Bookflix)

*Read to Self (How to Talk to Your Snowman and Perhaps…)

*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 learned about contractions with not.  We played a game on the smartboard to help us learn this new concept. 

Notes:

-Thank you to the families that attended our literacy night on Tuesday.  It was great to see families reading together. 

-The pajama drive has started.  Please send in new pajamas and a book to be donated to Palo Alto County Hospital or Mason City Hospital.