Sunday Post

 

Happy Sunday Families!

A sunny weekend was long overdue!  I hope that everyone has had time to enjoy the sunshine!  Come on spring time!  I am excited for a full week of learning.  I will be out on Monday afternoon…just a heads up.  I’m having some trouble uploading pictures today.  Stay tuned…hopefully it will work this week.  I have many pictures to share.

ü Monday we have a library lesson

ü Thursday evening from 6-7 is literacy night!

ü If your student is getting close to filling their homework journal, please send another journal to school.  We have used our other journals for poetry and math.  Thanks in advance.

ü We will visit the computer lab this week to explore a new program called Pixie.  It is like an ActivInspire for children.  Students are able to draw, type and use various stickers/labels.  We will practice this a few times as a class, then they will hopefully be able to use it independently in the classroom (during center time).

ü My goal this week is to finish calling families about current reading levels.  If I don’t catch you….please feel free to call back before or after school (the snow days have made this difficult).

ü March 12^th book swap—each student will get to choose a used book to keep.  If you have any used books that you are willing to donate, please send them to school.  There are collection boxes when you enter the school building.

This week…

Sight words: saw, went, they

Poem: Feelings Poem

Reading:

RL4 understand relationship between words and feelings

RL3 identify characters, setting, and major events in a story through use of dramatization, puppets, discussion, developmentally appropriate writing, drawing, etc.

Last week, we discussed emotions and feelings in books we read.  This week we are going to discuss them more in the context of story elements.  We will use a tool called a “feeling tracker” to track the characters feelings throughout the story.  We will also discuss other words we can use to describe feelings like “happy” or “sad.”

Writing:

In Writing, we are describing our emotions within a small moment story.  We have discussed that we are the authors of our own writing pieces.  The friend/teacher/parent who reads our writing is the reader.  Our job as the author is to make the reader feel like they were there while this story took place.  One way to do that is to describe our emotions.  I had the students close their eyes and I read them a few of my stories.  After each story I asked if they could imagine what happened in their brain.  It was a very fun activity!

Science:

We will spend the week working on our science fair project.  We still have not picked a topic.  We are exploring several ideas and discussing the scientific process.  My favorite idea is creating an egg that looks and feels like a real penguin egg.  We would research how penguins are able waddle with the egg on their feet.  The students would get to try walking with the egg. Fingers crossed that this is the project they choose!!

The science fair is March 20^th.  Please come and check out all of the students’ hard work!!

Math:

We are working on rote counting, number patterns and ordering numbers. We will play a card game where students have number cards 1-20.  In pairs, they will put the cards in order 1-20.  One student will pull a card and the other students will ID the missing numeral.  Students will use the same number cards to pull and numeral and 2 more.  Using Popsicle sticks with numbers 1-20 and play dough snake, students will stick the numbers in order from 1 – 20.  On Thursday and Friday we are going to explore the 50s chart.

 

Have a super week!