End of 2nd Trimester

I can't believe how quickly this year is going by!  We have already come to the end of the second trimester (our third one is definitely growing in length with all these snow days... Come On Spring!!!)  Your student will be bringing home their report card on Wednesday, March 4th.  Please review this with them and feel free to contact me with questions about them as well.  If you would also sign and return their envelope that would be great.  I hope you have all enjoyed a little extra time with your kiddo during these cold snowy days.

We had a blast last week with our P.J. party equipped with a movie and Valentine's games.  I need to be better about taking pictures during those times, but things get a little crazy.  Here are a few pictures from a chance we had to work with some Kindergarten students playing a math game.  Enjoy them!

Latest Learning
Reading: Finished our the story, Chinatown.  Beginning to work on A Trip to the Fire Station.  Working on drawing conclusions in our reading, sequencing a story, and identifying basic structure of a story.  Kids have also been enjoying working on building fluency, making connections, asking and answering questions about books at their level in their book clubs.

Math: This week we finished Unit 6 and took our test.  The kids enjoyed the multiplication in this unit.  We are just beginning unit 7, Patterns and Counting.

Writing: Finishing writing traits of sentence fluency, working on identifying naming and telling parts of more complex sentences. 

Science: Investigating traits of a liquid.

Social Studies: Continuing to work on continents and oceans.

Nutrition: Talking about the food groups and portion size.

Comprehension Tool-kit: Using pictures in books to make inferences.

Upcoming Dates

March 3- Happy Birthday Jesus
March 4- Report cards come home
March 6- February Book-It is due back
March 12th- 1 hr early dismissal for parent/teacher conferences
March 17th- 1 hr early dismissal for parent/teacher conferences

Happy Valentines Day

Happy Valentine's Day from our Room to you!

We had a great week in our room.  This teacher definitely learned a lesson this week: Rubber band bracelets are for the birds.  We managed to get one made for everyone by 3:05, but it ate up our party time.  We didn't get a chance to do our party games, so when we celebrate that we met our goal later on this week we will get a chance to play a couple games as well.  Hope you all had a great Valentine's Day!

We Love 2 READ!!!!

(especially with our first grade buddies)

 

We Made it Through January

Happy 100th day!  We are 100 days smarter!!!!!

And 100 days more silly!

OuOur Valentine’s Day Party will be on Friday, February 13^th from 1:30 – 2:10. We will be making our Valentine cardholders at school. Each child will need to bring in an empty cereal box that we will decorate here at school! It is not required that your child brings Valentines; however, if your child does, please have them bring one for each student in our class! We do not want any feelings to be hurt!  

Latest Learning

Writing: working on writing traits of fluent sentences

Science: continued focus on solids

Social Studies: learning about continents and oceans

Nutrition: beginning to focus on Nutrition and the 5 basic food groups

Comprehension Tool-kit: discussing strategies to use when questions arise

Upcoming Dates

Feb 6th- January Book-It reading logs are due
Feb 11th- Student led assembly first thing in the morning (Mr. Johnson's Class)
Feb 12th: Happy Birthday Mrs. Sheahan
Feb 13th- Valentine Party
Feb. 25th: Happy Birthday Keaton