April 11th Review Friday and April 14-18

 

 

Week of: April 14-18

Look at My Garden Grow

 

Donations of seeds needed.  I am asking students to bring in packets of seeds to share with the class. The seeds can be vegetable or flower seed packets.  We will plant gardens on Friday April 18th

Comprehension: Enhance Understanding

Vocabulary Words: seedlings, roots, growth, cycle

Phonics: ar words

Phonemic Awareness:  Phoneme Matching

Fluency: Use Punctuation to inform Meaning

Listening: Precise Listening

Writing: Fictional Writing ( we are using the Toontastic App to write fairy tales)

Science: Earth and Universe , Plant Growth

Math: Chapter 12 Number to 40 and we will begin Chapter 13 Addition and Subtraction with and without regrouping

 

Spelling list A :   far, jar, part, bark, hard, star, yard

 

List B: yarn, barn, dark, sharp, charm, superstar, Mars

 

  

 

 Today was Review Friday and we worked with small groups of students that needed just a little bit of extra teach time.   We also worked on extension activities with students that are ready to move forward with their learning. It was lots of fun for all. 

 We are really wiggly, so we took time out to Tooty Ta today.   I will build in lots of opportunities for movement during this last grading period.  The warm weather often leads to more need for us to try harder to focus our learning time.  

 Ms. Leslie taught a wonderful review lesson on Comparing and Contrasting Fairy Tales.  The students used Venn Diagrams to compare two versions of the classic Fairy Tale: Little Red Riding Hood.  The second version of the story was a twisted Fairy Tale.  

 Adam Gullion's family shared their chicken friend "Batgirl" with our class today. 

 Adam and Mr. Greg shared chicken facts with the students. 

 Mr. Greg and Adam read to the class.  We want to thank them both for being our "Mystery Readers."
Don't forget that we need mystery readers each Friday at 10:15.  Please contact Ms. Tipton if you would like to read to the class. 

 Each student had an opportunity to pet Badgirl.  

 Check out her feathered talons. 

 This is the book that the Gulliom's shared with us today.

 Ask yours child about our mystery number hundred's board  game we played today.  We are working on counting on, counting backwards, skip counting by 1s, 2s, 3s, 5s....  to determine missing numbers. 

 We also played "I have...  who has.." the blend game.   Blends were assessed today. Your child should be bringing home their phonics assessments for a parent signature. 

 A huge thank you to Adam for the special Friday treat. It was enjoyed by all.  

April 10th

   We will have our assessment over blends tomorrow. We enjoyed the outside phonic time today.  

The students all explored Toontastic today.  Ask your child to tell you what they did with this app. 

Inside the Earth

Students are learning to compare and contrast the adventuress and experiences of characters 

in stories. RL.1.9   We are using fairy tales to work on this  learning standard. 

Make sure you ask your child about our " inside the Earth" lessons.  Stop by and view our learning experiences on the wall outside of our room. 

We are learning about compound words. 

Every student should now be able to explain place value up to the thousands place. 

April 8th.

Mimi shared a wonderful book that she made for the KET writing contest.  We are all very pleased with her hard work. Her story is about a child that is leaving Korea and moving to the United States.  Mimi worked very hard on her water color illustrations and the plot of her story. We wish her well in the competition!  

Jacob made a story that he shared with our class. His main character was named Izzy.  He too worked hard on his story and enjoyed sharing it with the class.  I want to encourage other students to share any stories that they write at home  with our room.  We are currently writing fictional pieces during the school day , but I know that many students work hard on writing at home too! 

We are learning to type without looking at the keys.  We started by feeling the bumps on the f and j homerow keys. 

Then we added covers to all the keys.  These covers are helping the students learn how to type properly. 

Take a look at our daily five  fairy tale center rotations.  Listen to readings- fairy tale on tape

                                  Partner reading 

                       Word work- blends 

 And writing conferencing with Ms. Tipton. Students are in the beginning stages of writing their own fictional fairy tale. 

We reviewed place value. All students should now understand ones, tens, and hundreds.  If your child is in the circle math club they should know place value up to the thousands. 

Spelling List and book fair volunteers needed

Spelling list for the week of April 7-11

List One:    flag, float, black, blue, clap, clock, club
List Two: Florida, flower, planet, slide, sleeve, glitter, glue.

 

 

The Book Fair will be next week. Our class will visit on Monday, during our normal Library Time: 9:00-9:30.

 

Ms. Blankenship needs volunteer to work the Book Fair! Please sign up for Scholastic Spring Book Fair!

Here's how it works in 3 easy steps:
1. Click this link to go to our invitation page on VolunteerSpot: http://vols.pt/mVSdQ8
2. Enter your email address: (You will NOT need to register an account on VolunteerSpot)
3. Sign up! Choose your spots - VolunteerSpot will send you an automated confirmation and reminders. Easy!

Note: VolunteerSpot does not share your email address with anyone. If you prefer not to use your email address, please contact me and I can sign you up manually.

 

Thanks!!

 Kim Blankenship

Library Media Specialist
Wellington Elementary

3860 Keithshire Way

Lexington, KY

Upcoming Information for April and May

                                  March 31 – April 4th – Spring Break