Coming Up:
Tuesday, January 16: Jet's Pizza Night
Friday, January 19: PJ day
Friday, February 2: Early Release Day
Monday - Tuesday, February 5-6: No School, Mid-Winter Break
Friday, February 9: Valentines Due
Wednesday, February 14: Valentine's Day Party at 9:00am
Valentine's Day:
I will be including a class list of names for valentines in your child's take home folder tomorrow or Tuesday. Please watch for this. If your child wishes to give valentines to the class, please include one for everyone. Please bring valentines to school by Friday, February 9. If they are done earlier, send them in as soon as they are done.
I will be including a class list of names for valentines in your child's take home folder tomorrow or Tuesday. Please watch for this. If your child wishes to give valentines to the class, please include one for everyone. Please bring valentines to school by Friday, February 9. If they are done earlier, send them in as soon as they are done.
Reading:
We have started a new reading unit exploring nonfiction text. This unit is always exciting for students. Be sure to point out any nonfiction reading you are doing at home to your child (cook books, how to directions for a game, etc).
We have started a new reading unit exploring nonfiction text. This unit is always exciting for students. Be sure to point out any nonfiction reading you are doing at home to your child (cook books, how to directions for a game, etc).
Writing:
We finished up our how to unit last week. I hope you enjoyed the story your child brought home. This week we will begin our opinion writing unit.
Here is a game you can play at home to go along with our unit: Would you rather:
This is a great activity when traveling in the car or over dinner. Ask your child(ren) Would you rather ___ or ____? For example, Would you rather have summer year round or winter year round? When they reply, make sure they use a complete sentence, restating the question and giving good reasons (if they don't really explain why, probe them to explain a little more.
For example, I would rather have summer year round because it is fun, is not descriptive enough.
I would rather have summer year round because I enjoy summer outdoor activities like swimming and golf better than winter activities, is much more descriptive.
Math:
We are exploring tens and ones as we move into numbers through 100. We have been learning how to represent tens and ones with tens sticks and circles.
Social Studies:
We have begun a history unit, starting with learning about time lines. We will be learning about some influential figures in American history in the coming weeks. Our Martin Luther King Jr.lesson happens to line up perfectly with Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
We are exploring tens and ones as we move into numbers through 100. We have been learning how to represent tens and ones with tens sticks and circles.
Social Studies:
We have begun a history unit, starting with learning about time lines. We will be learning about some influential figures in American history in the coming weeks. Our Martin Luther King Jr.lesson happens to line up perfectly with Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Whiteboard Tip:
Time to dust off those whiteboards and put them to use again!
Before break dove into three super tricky homophones: there, their and they're. These are tricky for many adults, but teaching them now, we hope this isn't an issue for these kiddos.
Have your child draw each of these out for you:
there (draw an arrow to point over "there")
their (draw a house with two people inside to show it is "their" house, it belongs to them)
they're (draw 2 stick figures to show "they're" (they are) walking together)
Then read the following sentence and have your child write it while really thinking of which form of the word to write. Remember to correct an errors!
"Their dog ran over there and they're watching her run."
Here's to a great week ahead!
Time to dust off those whiteboards and put them to use again!
Before break dove into three super tricky homophones: there, their and they're. These are tricky for many adults, but teaching them now, we hope this isn't an issue for these kiddos.
Have your child draw each of these out for you:
there (draw an arrow to point over "there")
their (draw a house with two people inside to show it is "their" house, it belongs to them)
they're (draw 2 stick figures to show "they're" (they are) walking together)
Then read the following sentence and have your child write it while really thinking of which form of the word to write. Remember to correct an errors!
"Their dog ran over there and they're watching her run."
Here's to a great week ahead!
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