**The FUN FAIR was spectacular! I hope you all had as much fun as I did. I loved running the spinning game. It was also great to see many former Irving students as middle schoolers, teens and adults with children of their own! Our FAMILY GAME NIGHT class basket was wonderful. Once again, thanks to all who donated items. A HUGE SHOUT OUT to Michelle Ahring for putting the basket together. The "exercise class" featuring Irving teachers and run by raffle winning students was super funny. Those teachers need some more exercise time! Mr. Hodge, Ms. Pelling and Ms. Sak were the pie in the face winners! This event represents the Irving community at its best.
**Our Field Trip to the FIELD MUSEUM is TUESDAY, MARCH 7th from 9:30-1:30 pm. Please send in your permission slip and money ASAP! I have L. Dantzler, A. Maldonado as chaperones so far. I really would like to have at least 2 more chaperones so our groups will not be so large. Please consider volunteering. Parents will be able to ride the bus with us. All students need to bring a NUT FREE BAG LUNCH with your NAME ON IT. No glass bottles or lunch boxes please. Chaperones will be taking pictures of exhibits that interest their group. The students will build a writing project around a picture they selected.
**In salute to spring and all things Irish, bagpiper Patrick Lynch will come to Irving on Thursday, March 16th in the afternoon. He will present history behind bagpipe music and show the kids how he puts it all together. At dismissal, Mr. Lynch will give a concert on the black top for the school. Come join us!
**We participated in Ms. Noonan's African American Read In. Our story this week was "Red Light, Green Light Momma and Me.," by Cari Best.
**Bring in any kind of potato (not cooked) for our SUPER TUBER activity on Friday, March 17th. The activity will be done during our station day activities. I have one volunteer. I would love one more! Email me if interested.
**Future Event-The PTO Cultural Enrichment Committee has scheduled an assembly on March 23rd at 9:15 am called, "Justin and Liam." It teaches character education through music and song writing.
**Trimester 2 ends on March 10th.
**Report Cards go home on March 24th.
**Spring Break is 3/27-3/31. School resumes on Monday, April 3rd.
**NO SCHOOL-April 4th-Teacher's Institute Day.
**In Friendship Club this week, Dr. Bell Bey did a lesson on personal space and introduced the unthinkable, Space Invader who makes a persons body move into someones space and makes them feel uncomfortable. The student saw a webisode about personal space and had a discussion after. The also saw a role playing scene done by myself and Dr. Bell Bey and shared their thoughts.
**In Mr. Packer Thinking Skills this week, Mr. Packer worked with small groups on positional concepts and direction following.
**Our Second Step Lesson focused on managing anger--anger is a natural feeling--your body lets you know when you are angry--Learning to calm yourself down.
This week:
The students continued with our author study on Mo Willems. We ventured into the world of Elephant and Piggie. The students absolutely love Mo's style of writing and the lessons that are embedded in the stories. Lots of conversation and investigation on different types of fabric in science. Number bond study abounds in Math! Workstations this week included flip tile mats (creating equations to 10) Sentence writing--What does the Pigeon think of Irving School? and building with pattern blocks, count and record two different ways to solve the puzzle.
Reading/Language Arts: The students continued work on Unit 6 Neighborhoods in our Treasures Reading series. They accessed prior knowledge of places in and around their neighborhood. The students listened to the Big Book story,"Bus Stops." They made predictions about story content and listened for what happened at the beginning, middle and ending of the story. They also made connections about places in the story and how they relate to their own community. The student reviewed target words what and that and letter sounds Hh, Dd, Rr and short and long u. Students worked in small groups to create sentences using words and pictures. They also used their elkonin boxes in an activity that worked on sound blending 4-5 sound words. Whole group lessons continue to work on Haggerty Blue Book exercises on consonant blends and digraphs, segmenting, blending sounds, adding, deleting and substituting sounds to create words. Robust Vocabulary for this week included ADMIRE, DELIVER, CELEBRATION, SCHEDULE. Our author study of Mo Willems continues to be lots of fun for the students. The students listened to Mo's Elephant and Piggie stories. They discussed the problems and solutions in the stories, "My Friend is Sad" and "Can I Play Too?" They then set out to write in their own words about the problem and solution in the story of their choice. When listening to the story, "Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus" and "Leonardo the Terrible Monster," the students took a look at repetitive phrases and why the illustrations can be so important to a story. Workstations this week included leveled reader with comprehension check and fluency building, writing about our favorite neighborhood place and why we like it, box it up CVC word activity, cut and paste consonant blends, reading the sentence and color by code, short and long u word sort and building CCVC and CVCC words.
Math: The students continue to work in Module 4 in our Eureka Math series. Their lessons focused on creating a number bond for a given illustration for numbers 6,7,8,9. The students continue to use pictures, cube sticks and other drawings to show their work. They continue to work on math races or sprints to strengthen sequencing, subitizing and number order. Workstations this week included writing numbers to 112, reading and solving addition story problems using ten frames and writing the equation, fluency reading of teen numbers, geometric solids review.
Writing: The students continue to work on lowercase letter formation. They have also started to review uppercase letters on their mini boards. In Writer's Workshop this week, the students continue work on "how to" books but with a little twist. The students began work on writing books on the topic of school--teaching others things they know how to do in reading, science, math, gym, music, lunchtime and any other thing they have learned throughout their school day. We jogged our memories by constructing a "School Day" web of of activities. Lots of great thoughts. Some students have already written about school activities but now all students will write their books on the same topic of school. The students also discussed their day and the activities they did even on the playground, during gym, music and art. Stay tuned.
Science: Our investigations this week centered on the resource--fabric. The students brainstormed and created a chart about what we knew about fabric. It is cloth. We wear it. It can come from a plant or animal. It can even come from oil! The students examined many different kinds of fabric. How are fabrics different? How do they feel? Vocabulary discussed--texture, nubby, rough, scratchy, soft, shiny, smooth, slippery. The students listened to a story about types of fabric. They went on a fabric hunt around the room and recorded their findings in their science notebooks. They also took apart fabric to see the threads. Students used their magnifying glasses to check out different fabrics up close and personal. They chatted at their table about color and feel and pulled apart threads of the fabric. The students also investigated what happens when water is put on fabric. Does the water soak into the fabric? What fabrics absorbed water? Does water "bead up" on any fabric? Students recorded their findings in their science notebooks. Next week--our last investigation of this unit on pushes and pulls.
Technology: Whole group in reading worked on the apps Learn Consonant Blends and Montessori Crosswords for consonant blends, blending and segmenting 3-4 sound words. In math whole group the apps Let's Do Math worked number bonds to 10 and Subitize Tree work on visual number recognition and number patterns. The students viewed Brain Pop Jr. videos on Harriet Tubman and George Washington Carver.
Literature: "My Friend Is Sad," Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus," "The Pigeon Finds a Hotdog,""Don't Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late," "The Pigeon Has Feelings Too," "The Duckling Gets A Cookie," "Red Light, Green Light Momma and Me," "Jackie Robinson-A Life of Determination," "Can I Play Too?" "A Look At Maps," poem-"The Park," "In My Neighborhood," "Bus Stops," "What is Fabric Made Of?"
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