Weekly News and next Week's Units

Week of: March 4-7 , 2013

Comprehension: Enhance Understanding/ Ask Questions: Meaning 

Vocabulary : mammal, reptile, young 

Phonics:  Words with Long U

Phonemic Awareness:   Word Rhyming

Fluency: Change Voice to Reflect Characters

Listening: Discriminative Listening   

Social Studies: Community Workers

Math: Ch. 11 Assessment ( Picture Graphs and Bar Graphs)

      Begin chapter 15 Calendar and Time

 

Spelling for next week:  words with long "u"

 List One:   cube, rule, mule, tube, tune, huge, do

List Two:  flute, mute, amuse, ruler, super, June,
excuse

Next Week's Super Star Student will be Wedd Abofaye.  We want to congratulate Miss Abofaye.  


             We enjoyed getting to dress as our favorite characters in a Dr. Seuss book. 

   Some teachers and children wore crazy socks today...

 And some wore crazy hairstyles. 

 Make sure you ask your child about what they chose when they cashed in their Dojo points.  We will start at "0" again next week.  Every child that had 75 Dojo's and above got to participate in making a special informational text recipe- Green Eggs and Ham.  Ask your child if they got to enjoy this tasty treat.  Don't forget that you can monitor Dojo points from home.   There are many ways to earn Dojo rewards. 

 We had lots of choices.  The children will have the entire month of March to chose when they want to use their reward certificates. If your child selected to have lunch with the teacher and receive a special treat, this will take place next Friday.  

 Ms. Leslie worked with the children as they made their choices.   We are so glad she was here to help us today. 

 The children rotated to at least three different times to partner read today.  10 minutes at each station. It is simply amazing to see how much growth each child has made.  Keep up the reading at home. 

 Make sure you as kyour child about their favorite Dr. Seuss book that they read today. 

We are working  Animal Research/ informational text power points.   

 
 We are working on learning how to put information in our own words.  We have learned about plagiarism. 

 Mrs. Blankenship is working with us on this project.  She is going to teach us how cite our sources.  

 

 Ms. Leslie was our Friday guest reader. 

 We will take our assessment over Data and Graphing on Monday.  Today we played a dice game and recorded our data using tally marks. Students should all know how to interrupt   information.  Watch for your child to bring home there assessment for a parent signature.  They should come home on Monday, but it all depends on the weather.  

  

 
Have a fabulous weekend.   Consider volunteering in our room.  We welcome helping hands.   

Good Night Moon

Amber Philpot was our special guest reader today.  We want to send her a special Thank You for taking time out of her busy schedule to be visit first grade.    The students all were very engaged as she read and shared about her career. 

 Don't forget that we have a spelling assessment over "ea, and ee" word families.   

 The PJ day was based about this literary book:

 Brody Mancuso shared his journal about his trip to Chicago.  He keep a very detailed journal during his travel.  

 The students presented their animal homework today. Each and every child that completed the assignment was very proud of their work.  It is amazing to listen to their presentations.   They have all grown so much since the beginning of the year.

 Stop by and take a quick look at the animal facts.  

  Several of you have asked for the on-line scholastic book order code.  it is : LJ2KR.   I will place the order tomorrow after school.    

Celebrate I Love To Read activities

Don't forget that we are reading the book  Good Night Moon tomorrow.  We will celebrate this literary bedtime classic by wearing our favorite pajamas and slippers to school!

On Friday the children may bring any Dr. Seuss book that they might have at home.  Please mark your name  on each book.   Dr. Seuss is all about being yourself, as wild and wacky as that may be!  Crazy hair, crazy socks, let your imagination rock!  Dress as the "me" you want all to see, as kooky and colorful as that may be!! 

Airport and Living Arts and Science

 

Please take a minute to review these photos with your child. They should be able to explain everything that went on today.    Ms. Anna Tipton and I both participated in the Mo's Mustache.  Thank you for all the donations to the Hope Center. 

 

Also a HUGE thank you to Ms. Lutchenko, Mr. Dave Overman, Ms. Fosson, Ms. Verba and Ms, Stewart for helping chaperone the field trip.   An extra thank you to Mr. Overman for the sweet treat when we returned.