**Snow Day! Snow Day! It was one for the books. The students came back to school with stories of their day.....sledding, snow tunnels, snow forts, snow ball fights or just cozy and warm inside. Lots of conversation and sharing. Please keep sending boots and snow pants. Don't forget to send gym shoes on Gym Days. (Monday-Wednesday)
**Parent/Teacher conferences begin Monday. Looking forward to sharing your child's progress with you. REMINDER: On Thursday and Friday (February 12th and 13th) school is only in session in the MORNING. Dismissal is at 11:00 am. Pick up for Hephzibah, bus and Magical Minds will be at 11:00 am.
**Atessa's dad, Chris is scheduled to come in on Monday to speak to our class on all things "Boney."
**Our 100th Day/Valentine's Day Celebration was awesome!! 100 Fruit Loop necklace, 100 heart stamps, 100 food grid, writing 100 words, writing numbers to 100, making 100 Day crowns and sharing Valentine's with friends were just some of the many activities that filled our day. A HEART felt thanks to our volunteers: B. Howell, D. Pacelli, J. Hellman, K. Meier, C. Goldbeck, P. Ferrigno and our own Ms. Dennis and Ms. Chamblis.
**We were all inspired on 100's Day with a presentation by BMX Bicycle champ Matt Wilhelm. He did some super cool bike tricks and spoke to the students on never giving up, following their dreams, working hard and never letting a bully win. Lily was lucky enough to receive a poster from him.
**All students participated in a Hearing Screening last Friday.
**Route to Reading Rotation 5 will conclude this week. You should be receiving notification of your child's skill mastery. Route to Reading Rotation 6 will begin on Tuesday, February 17th.
**The FUN FAIR is COMING!! The FUN FAIR is COMING! Irving School Fun Fair is Saturday, February 21st from 11-3 pm. There will be games, prizes, silent auction, dancing for desserts, food and much more. Teacher acts......Pie in the face.....Class WINTER theme basket......Students can start bringing in their coins to vote for the teacher pie in the face. Ticket sales begin this week after school. Online bidding for auction items begins Wednesday, February 18th. Check the Irving School website for details. Come and play a game with me and bid on some silent auction items sponsored by ME.
**A shout out to Book Buddy, Olivia Lonergan and Josie's brother, Matt Novak for their work in "Seussical the Musical." Ms. Balicki and I got to see it last Sunday. It was lots of fun!!
**In honor of President's Day--the students will see a presentation by Abraham Lincoln on Tuesday, February 17th.
**No School on Monday, February 16th-President's Day.
**Our own Ms. Noonan, along with other teacher librarians from the district will present a Tech Night for Parents at the Oak Park Library on Wednesday, February 18th from 6-8 pm. Come hear about the latest kid friendly apps and sites for your computer and tablet.
**Future Author Visit--Author Aaron Reynolds of "Creepy Carrots" fame will come to speak to the students on Thursday, March 5th.
**Future Field Trip--to Dominican University to see the production of "CLICK, CLACK, MOO." We will go on Friday, March 6th from 10-12 pm. More info soon.
**In Friendship Club this week, Ms. Bell Bey revisited being a Social Detective. She used her puppet friend, "Puppy" to guide the students in a lesson about impulse control and being able to calm yourself in an uneasy situation. Great lesson.
**In Mr. Packer Problem Solving this week, the students created their illustration for their version of "The Most in the World" book.
This week:
It was all about getting ready for our 100th Day Celebration, finishing our sink and float experiments and BUBBLE MANIA. What is a bubble? Why does it pop? More in the science section. Station day activities included blizzard bubble paintings, working on our 100 word books, build and blend ccvc and cvcc words, pattern block build the puzzle on 2 levels, create and build a sentence, write the sentence and experimenting with building inclines with marble works.
Reading/Language Arts: The students completed Unit 5 Animals in our Treasures Reading Series. They reviewed all their sight words leaned thus far. We played a game of "Hands Up, Hands Down," The students worked on sequencing a mixed up sentence that was projected the board using the app Oz Phonics. Then they worked in small groups with their word cards and pictures and created 3 sentences. The students worked on sequencing events in the trade book, "Mole and Baby Bird." We continued our author study of Mo Willems books. Workstations this week included leveled readers-comprehension and fluency check, opinion writing activity, story elements, segmenting 4 and 5 phoneme words, Lexia Core 5 work and describing the relationship between pictures and text in a given story.
Math: The students continued their work on rote counting to 100 and beyond and grouping items by tens to 100 and beyond. They worked on writing numbers from 1-100. Students continue to sort items into the categories GREATER than 10, LESS than 10. Workstations included 10 frame activities, number bond activities using numbers 1-10, continuing work on subtraction using objects, drawings and mental images and listening to a story problem and deciding on the operation (add or subtract.)
Writing: The students worked on Magic "C" lowercase letters a and d and slant letters v and w. They practiced on their mini boards and applied their knowledge in their orange practice books. Students continue to work on sentence writing and organizing their writing using the format first, next, then and last when sequencing events. Students are beginning to use lowercase letters more consistently. They continue to work on spacing between words in a sentence and placement of letters given line. They also practiced writing an opinion piece about their favorite animal.
Science: The students completed their experiments on sinking and floating by each building a boat out of tin foil. Each student had the same size piece of tin foil. They could construct their boat any way they wished. Question: How many marbles do you think it would take to sink your boat? How would you build it to hold the greatest number of marbles? It was very interesting to see how each student approached the construction. Folding the tin foil, modeling it after a boat they saw, sides up, back up, front pitched like a triangle, shaped into a circle and shaped like a raft were some of the models. The students sketched a drawing of their boat and made a guess at how many marbles it would take to sink it. The students took turns placing their boat into the water and adding marbles. Such fun! Some were very surprised at what occurred. Ask your child about the experiment. The students explored bubbles. What makes a bubble? The students learned that a bubble is a thin layer of liquid (soapy water) that is surrounded by air (gas.) The outside layer is like a skin. We took the bubble machine outside and there were bubbles everywhere. Students observed the bubbles as they chased them and popped them. They noted that bubbles remained round or oval and were spheres. Why do bubbles pop? Some students got the idea that water around the bubble evaporates. The students had a ball. We will get a chance to blow their own bubbles on Monday and record their reflections and thoughts.
Technology: In reading small groups the apps iTalk, Rocket Speller, Sight Words, i Write Words, and Magic Reading 3 were use to enhance segmenting and blending, word practice and beginning fluency. In math small groups and individual work the apps Number Find, 100"s Board, Subitize Tree and Butterfly Math were used to enhance place value, adding, number order and visual memory. We used the internet to search for bubble pictures.
Literature: "Force and Motion," "Water's Journey," "Floating and Sinking," "Whiteout," "The Boy Who Cried Ninja," "The Biggest Snowball Fight Ever," "Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus," "All About Water," "The Snow Day," "Sick Simon."
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