Happy Monday!
Some reminders for upcoming events:
Fall Festival is this Friday! We will begin the parade at 8:30. After the parade the children will come back to class for a snack. They may change their costumes at this time as well. Hope to see you there!
The children will see the play "Amber Brown is not a Crayon" this Thursday in the theater.
Author, Sharon Robinson, will visit us on Friday, November 5th.
The Book Fair will take place the week of November 8th.
Poetry in the Park will be on Wednesday, November 10th at 8:30 a.m.
This week in class we will work on the following:
Reading-As we continue to read stories in our Voices series, we will focus on prepositions, points of view, predicting and inferring. We also started a new reading chapter book.
To build reading comprehension, I sent a worksheet that is due on Friday. It should be completed with a parent's help and signed by both the parent and child. Please ask your child about this assignment.
We are also working on a reader's theater version of Charlotte's Web. We plan on presenting this to our first grade buddies. Pictures will follow!
Writing- We continue to build skills for writing our personal narrative stories. Today we focused on learning when to paragraph. We will work this week on studying other author's strategies to strengthen our stories.
Math-Measurement is still the focus. This week will focus on area.
Science-Last Friday we worked with teams to build a car/cart that will be able to roll at least 100 cm. We will test our cars this week. This is a continuation of our unit on forces of motion and design.
Social Studies-Last week we learned about the Calusa Indians. This week we will focus on the Tequesta Indians. There will be a homework assignment this week that will require them to get onto my blog and then access the glog. We did this last week in class, so they should know what to do.
Hope you all have a fantastic week!
Monday, October 25, 2010
Monday, October 18, 2010
October 18th
Hello Everyone!
Some reminders...
*This Friday is our Homecoming football game. We will have a pep rally that day! Students may wear green and gold colored clothing.
*Fall Festival is October 29th. If you have not sent in the permission form, please do as soon as possible.
*Poetry in the Park is Wednesday, November 10th at 8:30 a.m. I sent our class poem home today for your child to begin to memorize.
This week we will work on the following:
*Writing-Learning how to pick what to write about for our new personal narrative stories.
*Reading-We are reading stories in our new Voices reading book. We are talking about empathy and respect. We will finish Charlotte's Web this week as well.
Collection Vocabulary for the next two weeks is: hyena, plantains, empathized, divert, intense, shivery, trembles, hearth, trills, scrawny, rake, dribbles, resigned, crushed, handy
Wordly Wise Vocabulary: amaze, amazing, arctic, Arctic, court, elect, interval, league, limit, milestone, recreation, tackle
*Math-We are working on measuring to the nearest quarter inch and millimeter. We will also work with perimeter and area.
*Social Studies-We are beginning our unit on Native Americans in Florida.
Hope you have a wonderful week!
Some reminders...
*This Friday is our Homecoming football game. We will have a pep rally that day! Students may wear green and gold colored clothing.
*Fall Festival is October 29th. If you have not sent in the permission form, please do as soon as possible.
*Poetry in the Park is Wednesday, November 10th at 8:30 a.m. I sent our class poem home today for your child to begin to memorize.
This week we will work on the following:
*Writing-Learning how to pick what to write about for our new personal narrative stories.
*Reading-We are reading stories in our new Voices reading book. We are talking about empathy and respect. We will finish Charlotte's Web this week as well.
Collection Vocabulary for the next two weeks is: hyena, plantains, empathized, divert, intense, shivery, trembles, hearth, trills, scrawny, rake, dribbles, resigned, crushed, handy
Wordly Wise Vocabulary: amaze, amazing, arctic, Arctic, court, elect, interval, league, limit, milestone, recreation, tackle
*Math-We are working on measuring to the nearest quarter inch and millimeter. We will also work with perimeter and area.
*Social Studies-We are beginning our unit on Native Americans in Florida.
Hope you have a wonderful week!
Monday, October 11, 2010
October 11th
Happy Monday to Everyone!
Some reminders...
There are only four days of school for the children this week. Friday is a professional day for teachers.
Our monthly Art Appreciation lesson (Picture Lady) will be on Tuesday. The children will still go to book checkout.
Tuesday the children will be allowed to wear a Rays shirt to school with regular uniform pants. Go Rays!
At 9:00AM on Thursday, October 14, there is a parent workshop on the topic of standardized testing. The presentation will be in the Student Activity Center. This is opened to all of our parents.
Fall Festival is on Friday, October 29. Please send in your Fall Festival forms in by the end of the week.
Please remember to complete the parent survey. Your ideas matter to us.
This week we will on the following:
Spelling-We will have our test on Thursday.
Reading-We are continuing to read Charlotte's Web. The class met with their first grade buddies on Friday and worked on an animal babies booklet. Hopefully, your child has told you about the "pig project". They are working in small groups to make a pig from recycled items. We will have a pig judging contest at the end of the month. It should be fun!
We are also reading stories in our Voices reading series. We continue to work on reading comprehension strategies in our literacy groups as well.
Please remember that we will have our vocabulary quizzes this Thursday. I will send home practice work for homework this week.
Math - Overall, the math test scores last week were good! We will now go on to a unit on measurement. This is our last unit where we will be concentrating on mastering the basic addition and subtraction facts. After that, it's on to MULTIPLICATION!
Here's a math facts website the children can do for fun and practice.
Sumdog.com
Science and Social Studies-Our unit on motion is still moving on! We will also begin learning about Native Americans in our Social Studies unit.
Some reminders...
There are only four days of school for the children this week. Friday is a professional day for teachers.
Our monthly Art Appreciation lesson (Picture Lady) will be on Tuesday. The children will still go to book checkout.
Tuesday the children will be allowed to wear a Rays shirt to school with regular uniform pants. Go Rays!
At 9:00AM on Thursday, October 14, there is a parent workshop on the topic of standardized testing. The presentation will be in the Student Activity Center. This is opened to all of our parents.
Fall Festival is on Friday, October 29. Please send in your Fall Festival forms in by the end of the week.
Please remember to complete the parent survey. Your ideas matter to us.
This week we will on the following:
Spelling-We will have our test on Thursday.
Reading-We are continuing to read Charlotte's Web. The class met with their first grade buddies on Friday and worked on an animal babies booklet. Hopefully, your child has told you about the "pig project". They are working in small groups to make a pig from recycled items. We will have a pig judging contest at the end of the month. It should be fun!
We are also reading stories in our Voices reading series. We continue to work on reading comprehension strategies in our literacy groups as well.
Please remember that we will have our vocabulary quizzes this Thursday. I will send home practice work for homework this week.
Math - Overall, the math test scores last week were good! We will now go on to a unit on measurement. This is our last unit where we will be concentrating on mastering the basic addition and subtraction facts. After that, it's on to MULTIPLICATION!
Here's a math facts website the children can do for fun and practice.
Sumdog.com
Science and Social Studies-Our unit on motion is still moving on! We will also begin learning about Native Americans in our Social Studies unit.
Monday, October 4, 2010
October 4th
Happy Monday!
We enjoyed meeting with our first grade buddies to work on a retell of Charlotte's Web. We will meet with them again soon to continue discussing this wonderful novel.
This week we will work on the following:
Writing-We are publishing our first personal narrative story.
Reading-Our focus is on Culture. We will continue to read stories from our Voices reading series. We are also continuing with the class read, Charlotte's Web. Literacy groups are beginning this week as well. Your child will read this assigned book and do related activities in class.
Collection Vocabulary Words are: ensemble, tour, summed up, swoops, wrangler, marveled, nosing, pesky, bawling, rebellion, longed, complicated, brocade, towering
Math-We are finishing the math unit and will take a few days to review. The math test is planned for Thursday.
Science-We are continuing to work on our unit about forces.
Halloween Costume Recycling Drive
October 4-22
Pull out those old dusty Halloween costumes that no longer fit and donate them to a good cause. Shorecrest Leo Club will lead the all-school Halloween Costume Recycling Drive this year and your generous donations will benefit the children at the YWCA's Family Village. Look for collection bins near each Division office.
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