News from Mrs. Straw

Events:

-March 5 (2 hr. early out)

-March 17, 18 Conferences (1 hr. early out)

- March 19-21 No School (Spring Break)

-March 31- April 4 Iowa Assessments

What’s Happening in BUILD:

***This is week we continued the same build groups.****

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:

- We learned about /oa/ and /ow/ making the long o sound (they say o).  We practiced this skill with a smartboard sort.

-We learned what an adjective is and then described ourselves with adjectives

Notes:

-We have started practicing a reader’s theater that we will perform in front of the school on March 13 when the Irish Dignitary visits.  Next week I will send home the lines that your child will be reading for them to continue practicing at home.  I will take pictures that day and post them on my blog.