**Our field trip to BROOKFIELD ZOO is TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24th from 9:30-2 pm. ALL STUDENTS MUST BRING A BAG LUNCH WITH NAME ON IT and DRESS FOR THE WEATHER. No glass bottles or thermos containers. A big thanks to A. Pillacela, M. Daniel, N. Bell, U. Allgood, N. Massett and M. Harris for volunteering to help. Students and teachers will ride the school bus. Parent volunteers will carpool and meet us at the zoo. I will provide money for your parking fee. I am not able to have younger siblings on this trip. Our trip includes a special tour of the Great Bear Wilderness, a classroom experience, a spot for our picnic lunch and time for your group to explore exhibits on your own.
**Keep those gloves and mittens coming!! The end of the month is soon approaching. Student Council reps Quinn and Jackson are so excited by your contributions. Glove and mitten donations will go to the Oak Park and River Forest Infant Welfare Society.
**Route to Reading Rotation 2 has concluded. You should have received a notice about your child's skill mastery. Please email if you did not. Route to Reading Rotation 3 will begin on Monday, November 30th.
**This year the Turkey Trot took place during our scheduled Art Time. We wished our Book Buddies well but did not get to see them run. We will see our Book Buddies on Monday, November 23rd. They will be helping us create some props for a Winter Concert piece the kindergarten students are working on.
**Bus Evacuation Drill for students will be held on Monday, November 23rd at 9:45 am.
**Meet Children's author, Paul Orchoski ("The Ant and Pancake" and "The Mouse in My House") on Tuesday, December 1st from 6-7 pm. He will be talking to parents and students about coming up with story ideas, writing tips, understanding craft and structure and poetry inspiration.
**CALLING ALL COOKS!! As part of our Traditions and Celebrations cross curricular theme for the month of December, I am looking for volunteers to help with Room 110's Annual Gingerbread Cookie Making and Baking on Friday, December 11th beginning at 1:15 until dismissal. No experience necessary! Roll out, create, decorate, bake and share. Email me if interested. We have 2 volunteers so far. I need about 4 more volunteers for the event to run smoothly. Think about it! I will provide the dough, sprinkles and aprons......you provide the baking sheets, spatulas, man/woman power and the love! I will provide the recipe for your viewing. It is a no egg/no dairy/no nut recipe.
**Come to the Irving Annual Handmade Craft Fair and Cookie Crumble on Saturday, December 12th from 9-1 pm. in the lunchroom and hallways. Great place to shop for holiday items.
**WINTER CONCERT featuring our own Kindergarten and First Graders is Thursday, December 17th. Due to the size of our auditorium, it will be performed twice--once at 8:15 am and again at 9:45 am in the Irving Auditorium. All are welcome to attend! I will be chatting with our Room Parents about refreshments between concerts.
**Please note that you can order from the NOVEMBER and DECEMBER See Saw Book Magazines until November 30th.
**Trimester 1 ends on November 24th. Report Cards will go home on Friday, December 11th.
**NO SCHOOL November 25th-29th in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday. Classes resume on Monday, November 30th.
**In Friendship Club this week, Ms. Bell Bey continued her lessons on behavior and reviewed the behavior hero and challenges to appropriate behavior. The students participated in activities where they thought out solutions to situations posing conflicts.
**In Mr. Packer Problem Solving this week, Mr. Packer began a new project on positional concepts. He showed a video/catchy song about the concepts--in--on--under--in front of---behind --next to--between.
**In Mr. Degman Math/Tech, students completed their project on teen numbers counting using the app Chatter Pix.
This week: It continues to be all about bears and preparing for our field trip to the Brookfield Zoo. The students reviewed the facts they know thus about all bears. They discussed the similarities and differences of black and brown/grizzly bears. They looked at some cool video feed from National Geographic kids on bears/habitats/foods. We read about and found information via the internet on polar bears. The students discovered that they are different from black/brown bears because of the environment they live in. Waxy waterproof fur and black skin underneath their fur help the polar to stay dry and reflect the suns rays. Their diet is mainly seals, much to the dismay of the class. There is not a lot of plant life. The students began to compare and contrast the types of bears. How are they alike? How are they different? We used a Venn Diagram to help us sort it out. The students began work on an author/illustrator study using the works of Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle. They make a great team! The student are using the craft and structure of the story, "Brown Bear, Brown Bear , What Do You See" to write their own class version of the story. They will write and illustrate and then record themselves reading their page. Stay tuned! Station day activities for this week included bear cave habitats, writing and illustrating a page for our class Brown Bear story, teen teddies cut, count and sequence, labeling parts of a bear and partner challenge using the app Top It.
Reading/Language Arts: The students began work on Unit 3 Transportation in our Treasures Reading series. The students discussed what is meant by transportation --a way to move people and things from one place to another. They brainstormed ways to get around and discussed forms of transportation that go fast and slow. We constructed a group transportation word web. The students built background on their travels near and far. They listened to the Big Book story, "On the Go." The students observed how people travel from one place to another and the vehicles they used. We looked up each country on the globe. The students asked and answered questions about the types of vehicles used in other countries. They also worked on words that show ACTION. Our Big Book text became the basis for a summative assessment on naming key details and using text evidence. In their comprehension study, the students compared and categorized the types of travel and vehicles. The sight words go and see where reviewed. The students worked on target sounds Tt and short i. Our Robust Vocabulary this week included TRAVEL, JOURNEY, PREPARE, RELAX, FAMILIAR. The students used their elkonin boxes to segment and blend 3 phoneme words. They read their pre decodable story, "Go, Go, Go." They learned about a comma and how it is used. They made predictions about story content and elbow chatted with a partner about characters, setting and events in the story. The students listened to 2 poems about transportation--"The Bike" and "Riding the Subway." They noticed the rhyming pattern in both and tracked the words as I read them. Workstations this week included leveled readers with focus on fluency and main idea, "How do you go to school?"--graph and compare, using the app Magnetic Letters HD to create sentences using their sight words, word search-ip words, creating your own retelling cards, beginning and ending sound search, word work and writing about your favorite vehicle.
Math: The students continue to work on rote counting to 75 and beyond. The students are really getting the hang of working with ten frames and counting by tens. They worked with partners on counting and cardinality activities representing a group of objects with a written number. The students continue to work with teen numbers sequencing the order/writing them and decomposing the group of ten and what is left over. Workstations this week included working with monkey in the middle teens, sorting by common attribute, working with geometric solids cone, cube, cylinder and sphere and finishing tech teen project with Mr. Degman.
Writing: The students completed work on Starting Corner Capitals. They reviewed H, L, K, U, V, W, X, Y, Z. The students practiced on their mini boards and applied what they learned in their orange practice books. The students are working hard in their new writing journals to begin with a capital letter, space between words in a sentence and where to place letters on a given line and reading their work before they come to conference with me. I love when I hear them reading their work back to themselves as they are beginning the process of self editing their writing.
Technology: In reading, whole and small group used the apps Montessori Crosswords and Rocket Speller to reinforce segmenting and blending as well as sound foundation, In Math, whole and small group used the apps Top It, Monster Squeeze to reinforce greater than/less than and number order. Students began to learn about the app Sonic Pics to record their sentence for our talking story.
Literature: "Desert Homes," "Hibernation Station," "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?" "Baby Bear, Baby Bear, What Do You See?" "Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You Hear/" "Tree Homes," "Who Lives Here?" "Polar Bears," "Follow the Polar Bears," "Amazing Polar Bears."
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