Feb. 5

UNOTE: tomorrow is share day.  Students may bring a share item that can fit inside their backpack.  

It will be an assessment day too.  The students will take the phonics weekly spelling assessment, and Unit 4 Reading Assessment.  The reading assessment will require students to read short passages and answer questions about each passage.  RL.1.1, 1.3, 1.4 and L1.1d, L 1.1g , RI 1.8 are the standards that will be assessed.  

Mrs. Sparks prepared a lesson to assist the students with tomorrow's assessment.  The students enjoyed the "oo" phonics activities.  

 Nicholas assisted as the powerpoint slide show helper.

 Student used fly swatters to located the "oo" words.

 Then they utilized their reading skills to play the "I have " Who has?" game.  Ask your child to explain how we use this game as a teaching/review tool.

 We are working hard on Non-Fiction Text.  Students are learning about the world maps and where penguins are found.

Students used the magnetic letters at the "work on words " station.

 Every reading club worked hard this week.

 We will spend one more day on place values and we will assess next week.

 Students should all be able to use expanded notation.  

 Many of the students have moved on to the hundreds place.  It is amazing to watch the students grow!!  

Feb. 3-4

 On Tuesday, the Boosterthon Ladies stopped by our room to remind the students to keep up the great work of gathering pledges.  Remember that students may start bringing in the $$ that where pledged to them on Friday.  We will collect the money until next Friday, Feb. 13th.

 We are working on the "oo" phonic sound this week.  Assessment will be on Friday.

 Each student had the opportunity to look through their work portfolios.  We are setting growth goals for the last 1/2 of the school year.

 We earned a "Hat Day" reward for reaching the goal of an average of $15.00 per lap.   Here are the students that choose to participate in the hat reward.

Students should be able to tell you if Tack the Penguin is a Fiction or Non-Fiction book.  They recorded information that they found to prove their answers.

 They worked in pairs to decide the information about penguins that was Fiction and Non-Fiction.  

 On Wednesday we read a new penguin book.  The students recorded information that the located in the story.

 The text had all the characteristics of a Non-fiction text.   They compared Fiction text to non-fiction text.  We sang a song to learn the difference between the two types of text.

Students illustrated the song. 

   All the students had a fabulous time at the Run Run..  Make sure and ask you child to show you their record of how many laps they completed.  The Large stickers are adhered to the front cover of their agendas.

Groundhog Fun!

We enjoyed our whole group Monday Reading activities.   We enjoy bettering our reading fluency through the use of song and drama.    We also acted out a second choral reading activity.  

No weekly homework- because the students reached the first two levels of the Boosterthon reward.  Tomorrow will be CRAZY HAT DAY.  Every student in our room has earned the right to wear a hat tomorrow.  

 New Spelling Choices are coming home for the month of February.  Assessment will be on Friday.

 We used our research skills to locate facts about groundhogs.

 Lily Perkins celebrated her 7th birthday.  Congratulate her when you see her.

 We earned a class treat. Ms. Tipton is very proud of our class.   We are up to $16 per lap.  This is the average for the Terrific Tipton's.

 Nicholas Epperson located highlights from Super Bowl 49.  He shared them with the class.  We discussed our previous predictions.

 Mr. Counts taught a lesson entitled; " Don't Let Your Snowman have a Meltdown."  

 Each student was presented with a situation question. They then had to decide if the situation was handled in a good way or a bad choice.  

 Students added pieces to the snowman for correct responses.