The week of Dec. 13

 I hope you all had a great weekend shopping and shopping and shopping!  It's amazing how getting ready for Christmas is never ending!

This week is going to be full of holiday fun, so this is a short blog.  We will be doing Christmas crafts and reindeer games in-between Phonics, Reading, and Math!  

I hope you have a great week!

Coming up!

Dec. 16.       Holiday Party --Half day, dismiss at 12:10

Dec. 17-Jan. 4.  Christmas vacation

Jan. 5.        3rd quarter begins--Welcome Back!

Jan. 7          2nd quarter grades posted on Skyward

The week of Dec. 6

 What a difference in the weather this week from last week!  Please send winter coats to wear tomorrow also!  It's warming up after tomorrow.  Thank you for trying to remember to check the weather, so the kids are comfortable playing at recess.  

Last week we had a fun time with fairy tales.  Friday we worked together to doing STEM building with 5 different fairy tales.  It was a challenge at times sharing and taking turns, but we made it through 5 stations!  Enjoy some of the pics below.  Have your child tell you what they had to do!

ELA--This week we are moving on to Gingerbread stories!  We will be comparing and contrasting stories, along with doing other gingerbread activities.

Phonics-Consonant Digraphs-2 letters together that make one sound.  ch, th, sh, wh.  These may be at the beginning or the end of a word.

Due to limited time and many skills to cover, we will only do a few pages on each of these digraphs.  I may send home others for them to do at home.  They can send them back if they choose to.

Math--We will continue with various review and math activities while Mrs. Scott works on Fastbridge testing.

Holiday Fun!  Along with Gingerbread we will enjoy some holiday activities too!  Today we are reading "Santa Gets Stuck" and will make a flipbook telling the parts of the story.

Rudolph!  The class will get to make a Rudolph after playing a dice game with addition.

Coming up!

Dec. 16.       Holiday Party --Half day, dismiss at 12:10

Dec. 17-Jan. 4.  Christmas vacation

Jan. 5.        3rd quarter begins

Jan. 7          2nd quarter grades posted on Skyward

Fairy Tale Stem

Building The Three Little Pigs House

Building the Three Bears Chairs from Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Building the bridge!

Building the Pig's house

Building the bridge from The Three Billy Goats Gruff

Building Rapenzel's Tower

Building a basket for the apples that Red Riding Hood took to Grandma's

 

The week of Nov. 29

 Is it really almost December?  I need time to slow down!  I love this class too much!  :)

I hope you all had a wonderful break!

Phonics-

This week we are beginning the r blends like:  cr, dr, tr, br, gr, pr, fr.

The high frequency sight words are:  said, when, there, where

We will also have a lesson on contractions using an apostrophe.

To Do:  With our two day week last week, I did not have time to have the kids read the words on the Fluency Check Phonics sheet.  It is in their folder.  Please have them read the words to you so you can see how well your child has progressed on the skills learned so far!  This does not need to be returned.

Reading:  We just started our unit on Fairy Tales.  We will be learning the elements of a fairy tale, comparing/contrasting, and reading different versions of fairy tales.  This week we are reading:

Monday:  Cinderella

Tuesday:  Little Red Riding Hood, Ninja Red Riding Hood

Wednesday:  Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Three Snow Bears

Thursday:  The Three Little Pigs, The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig

Friday:  The Three Ninja Pigs, Goldy Luck and the Three Pandas

Math--Place Value

Each day we count the days we are here at school with straws and Base Ten Blocks.  We talk about how many tens and ones we have for each.  We are also using coins to count our days.  We are on day 71!  Ask your child to tell you how how we count 4 quarters!

Counting our days this way helps us learn place value.  We are working on a place value packet to practice.  We also have a fun December packet to review skills we've learned so far, while I am doing Fastbridge testing.  So, you won't be seeing any math sheets coming home from our My Math book until I am done testing.  

Coming up!

Dec. 16.    Holiday Party --Half day, dismiss at 12:10

Dec. 17-Jan. 4.  Christmas vacation

Jan. 5.        3rd quarter begins

Jan. 7          2nd quarter grades posted on Skyward

Nov. 22-23

 Our math test over subtraction to 20 is tomorrow!  The class is doing great with the strategies that work for them!

We have completed the first math book of our math series.  There are many homework pages still in it that your child can do at home when they have free time to practice and review.  We will be beginning Book 2 soon.  Fastbridge testing just began so we may be doing other math activities in place of our math book, so I can get the testing done before Christmas break.  

We finished our Science Unit on space with the kids writing details about what they learned about the moon.  Then, we learned how to write a paragraph with a topic sentence, the details, and a conclusion!  The kids loved doing it!  Our last fun thing we did was make our own planets out of modeling clay and then we painted them.  The turned out so cute!

Have a very Happy Thanksgiving Break!

The week of Nov. 15-19

How about those CHIEFS?  If you're a Chiefs fan, it was sure nice to have an earned win!

We are back in the swing of things after me being gone on Friday.  We are still learning expected behaviors when a sub. is here.  She had a rough day, so we'll keep having the needed conversations about behavior when I'm gone.

Enjoy the pics below of when our veteran, Joe Hanks, was here last Thursday!  He was kind to let the kids try on his army gear.  

Phonics:  This week we are practicing more blends with the s blends at the beginning of the word.  (st, sw, sc, sl, sm, sn, sp, sk). We will also be learning there are blends at the end of the word like: tent, belt, lamp, gift, pond, mask.

Optional Homework:  We were not able to complete all of the (l blend) unit in one week.  I sent home the last page for your child to do at home.  If they bring it back, I will reward them. :)

New high frequency words:  which, from, call, very

Math this week is working on subtraction to 20 and using all of the strategies we have learned to solve problems.  The kids are doing well using what works best for them!

We are finishing up our science unit filling out our Know-Want to know-Learned. The kids learned so much during our moon unit and were able to answer all of the questions they had before we studied the moon.  

This week in science we are going to learn more about our planets and the stars.  Each student will get their birthday month constellation printed and they will add a gold star for each star on their constellations.

Each student will get to choose a planet to make out of modeling clay. Then, they will get to paint it and keep for themselves!

Lastly, we are going to get to make the phases of the moon out of oreos!  They will love this, because they will get to eat some of the oreos when we are done!

It's going to be a fun way to end our solar system unit!!

Keep reviewing the sight words lists!  

Please work on teaching your child to tie their shoes!

If you're interested in helping out our class with items we can use, please check out my Amazon Wish List!  Thank you so much!

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Coming up!

Nov. 18.    Scott's class visits the book fair!  The ewallet is a great cashless payment option for your child so it doesn't get lost enroute!

Nov. 20.    Winter Wonderland--9-noon

Nov. 24-26.  Thanksgiving Break

Veteran Day Pictures with Captain Joe Hanks!

Thank you all for your service!