**Happy New Year and welcome back! I hope you all had a restful break. The cold and snow led to a delay in beginning our new school year but the students returned excited and rested. Please welcome a new addition to our class, Samantha Shelton! Even thought the temperatures will rise next week, please continue to send snow pants and boots. It is going to be quite messy and wet and we want the students to remain as dry as possible. Thanks!
**Eagle Extras classes begin on Monday, January 13th. I have a listing for each day. The students will be picked up from our classroom at dismissal.
**Keep sending in permission slips and money for our Field Trip to see the play "Alexander and the No Good Horrible, Very Bad Day" at the Museum of Science and Industry. All slips and money need to be in by Wednesday, January 15th for our January 23rd trip.
**You will receive a notice on Tuesday about Midyear Parent/Teacher Conferences that will be held on Monday, January 27th, Tuesday, January 28th and Wednesday, January 29th. Please note that Thursday and Friday, January 30th and 31st school will be in session in the MORNING ONLY. Dismissal will be at 11:00 am. Hephzibah and bus pick up is at 11:00 am.
**I am beginning mid year assessments with students this week. DIBELS, DARRELL MORRIS, as well as midyear assessments in math, reading and writing will be shared with you at conference time.
**Students participated in a VISION SCREENING on Friday, January 10th.
**Route to Reading Rotation 4 began on Thursday, January 9th. All students received notification of the skill they will be working on.
**NO SCHOOL on MONDAY, JANUARY 20th in observance of ML King Day.
**There was no Friendship Club this week. It will resume next Friday.
** In Mr. Packer Math Enrichment this week, Mr. Packer completed his activity on yesterday and today.
**Our Reading Grandma Mary will begin her 8th year of listening to young readers. She will be here every Monday morning from 9-11:30 am. She is thrilled to be back and we are so happy to have her!
** Please note a new date for our 100th Day/ Valentine's Day Celebration. It is now FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7th from 1:00-2:55 pm. We need LOTS of volunteers to help with activities that focus on the number 100 and counting by 10's. Let me know if you can help.
This week: It was all about the snow and cold. There was much discussion about the temperature and and how you do not want to get frostbite! Most students came very prepared to battle the temps and mountains of snow on our playground. The students began work on a snowman project project which included drawing, writing, math and reading. It will be completed next week. The students began their inquiry into what they know about WATER. Our experiments begin next week. Station Day activities included creating a windsock snowman, counting and recoding the number of snowballs on a shovel, completing their number rhyme practice books and counting on with snowmen to solve addition problems.
Reading/Social Studies: The students used this short week as a review for all skills related to reading. They reviewed current sight vocabulary by playing "Hands Up, Hands Down," and practiced writing their words. The students used their words and pictures to create sentences with a partner. Students worked on leveled readers and comprehension strategies as well as asking and answering questions about what they had read. The students practiced reading to a partner and sharing comments with one another on fluency. Students worked on letter/sound foundation, segmenting and sound blending skills. They continue to use their elkonin boxes to record the order in which they hear sounds in a 3 and 4 letter word. Students reviewed the job of an author and illustrator, discussed what made a story fiction or nonfiction. The students used games to reinforce concepts of letter/sound correspondence, word families, and spelling.
Math: The students continue to on rote counting to 70 and beyond and writing single and double digit numbers. They began their new math calendar books for January. The skills worked on included writing numbers coming before or after a targeted number, recording ways to say a targeted number thru number bonds, strategies for recognizing even and odd numbers, patterns continuation, using ten frames to illustrate a given numbers and adding numbers using dominoes and dice.
Writing: The students reviewed letter formation strategies for all upper case letters and practiced in their orange books. We will begin letter formation practice for lowercase letters next week. Ms. Chinn continued her writer's workshop activities with a discussion of VOICE when writing. The students continued to work in their writing journals on letter formation, beginning sentences with a capital letter, spacing of words in a sentence, having some kind of ending mark, placement of words on a given line, rereading their sentences to see if they NAME and TELL. They continue to work on their snowman writing project.
Science: The students began their inquiry and discussion on WATER. Their experiments will begin next week.
Technology: No new apps were presented this week.
Literature: "The Biggest Best Snowman," "The Snowman," "It's Winter," "Thomas' Snowsuit," "Snowman Magic," "Snow Day for Mouse," " There Was a Cold Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow."
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