Glad to be up and running!!!
**Our 100th Day Celebration was a smashing success! Thanks to all who helped. Come and check out our 100 item collections on our hearts. They are up in our hallway.
**Our ART START program, in conjunction with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, has concluded. Our final project was an exploration of art glass. The students saw a slide presentation of art glass in FLW's home. They discussed the types of shapes and use of symmetry. The students then created their own stained glass using tracing paper and colored pencils. Come check them out on our windows. What a great experience for the students. Ms. Shannon would like to publish some of the pictures of our experience. A release form will be sent home Friday.
**Check out the new STATION DAY HELPER list by clicking on the link. Spelling City, Xtra Math and Starfall are also up and running. I will be looking for another suitable math link.
**NO SCHOOL on MONDAY, February 21st----President's Day.
**Thanks to Hannah and Ethan for their work on Student Council this trimester. We will be looking for 2 new reps. Look for information this Friday.
**The FUN FAIR is coming! The FUN FAIR is coming! Games, food, desserts, prizes, pie in the face--play a game with me. Saturday, February 26th from 11-3 pm. at Irving.
**Reading Grandma is reporting that I need to provide more challenging books. They are ready for it!
This Week
READING-We are finishing our unit on "Wind." We continue to work on oral comprehension, story elements, problem and solution, decoding strategies, recognizing the beginning, middle and ending of a story, reading for meaning and vocabulary development. We have been working on segmenting and blending 4 and 5 phoneme words.
MATH-We have been working on writing 2 and 3 digit numbers, place value, counting to 100 and beyond, listening to information in story problems, counting by 2's and 5's and investigating the process of addition and subtraction and coins and their values.
HANDWRITING-We continue to work on lowercase formation with "Magic C" letters, a,g,d. We are writing 2-3 sentences in our journal reflections, continuing to work on spaces between words in a sentence, punctuation, and placement of letters on a given line.
SCIENCE-We are finishing our last experiment--What dissolves in water? and studying the water cycle.
LITERATURE-"Water can Change", "The Water Cycle", "Abraham Lincoln", "Harriet Tubman", "The Story of Ruby Bridges", "A Picture Book of Jessie Owens", "Rosa Parks", Magic School Bus Has a Heart", "Big Heart",
"A Book of Friends", "Friends" and "A Picture Book of George Washington".
