News from Mrs. Straw

Events:

-Feb. 27 Special DEAR day (Wear pajamas)

-March 5 (2 hr. early out)

-March 17, 18 Conferences

- March 19-21 No School (Spring Break)

-March 31- April 4 Iowa Assessments

What’s Happening in BUILD:

B (Buddy Games)- Going for the Gold (Working on greater than and less than)

U (Using Manipulatives)- Penny, Nickel, Dime Exchange (Students roll a die and then get the corresponding amount of coins out of the bank.  When they have five pennies they trade for a nickel, and then two nickels they trade for a dime.)

I (Indpendently Working)-President’s Day packet (graphing and counting money)

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 and Tumblebooks)

*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)

Week in Review:

- This week we played a Smartboard game to learn about the long e with the letter y. 

-We meet with our third grade buddies on Friday and practiced some games.  We worked on long and short vowels, nonsense words, and sight words.

Notes:

-Thursday, February 27 will be a special DEAR day.  We will have an all school assembly to get rejuvenated about reading at home.  On this special day we will be wearing our pajamas.  Please no slippers.