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.