Our greeting of the week is "privet", which is hello in Russian. Thanks to our classmate, Nick, who helped us choose this one.
Friday, September 21st, is The International Day of Peace. The Lower Division community will gather on that morning at 8:15. Families are welcome to join us in the courtyard.
Parents, we need your help with the rock garden. Please have your child find a rock that will fit in the palm of his/her hand. Have your child decorate the rock, keeping the purpose in mind. We suggest acrylic paints, permanent markers, colored pencils, or any combination of those. Mrs. Rowe has agreed to varnish the rocks if they are turned in by Tuesday, 9/18.
Parents, we need your help with the rock garden. Please have your child find a rock that will fit in the palm of his/her hand. Have your child decorate the rock, keeping the purpose in mind. We suggest acrylic paints, permanent markers, colored pencils, or any combination of those. Mrs. Rowe has agreed to varnish the rocks if they are turned in by Tuesday, 9/18.
Library check-out is every Tuesday. Please remind your child to return their books on this day, so they are able to check out more books to read. Parents are there to help with check-out only at this time.
Conference day in on Thursday, October 4th. A confirmation of your conference time will be sent out later on in the week. If this time no longer works for you, please contact me so we can arrange another time to meet.
Current Events continues this week. Please refer to the calendar in your child's Take Home Folder to see the day your child is scheduled to share.
Spelling words this week will be made up of five words that follow the spelling rule for the week and five high frequency words (which your child does not know how to spell). Each child will have their own list of words, depending on their individual needs, so I have not created a list on Spelling City this week. Your child can type in their own list of words, if they want to use this website to help practice their spelling words.
The children will bring home the first Home Link in math this week and sit for their first math assessment. We will be doing lots of practice in class to help build up their confidence and proficiency in telling time, adding coins, counting on a number grid and line, as well as using tally marks.
We will practice our second poem for our show titled: South America. Please have your child read over this poem each day as part of their reading homework.
Conference day in on Thursday, October 4th. A confirmation of your conference time will be sent out later on in the week. If this time no longer works for you, please contact me so we can arrange another time to meet.
Current Events continues this week. Please refer to the calendar in your child's Take Home Folder to see the day your child is scheduled to share.
Spelling words this week will be made up of five words that follow the spelling rule for the week and five high frequency words (which your child does not know how to spell). Each child will have their own list of words, depending on their individual needs, so I have not created a list on Spelling City this week. Your child can type in their own list of words, if they want to use this website to help practice their spelling words.
The children will bring home the first Home Link in math this week and sit for their first math assessment. We will be doing lots of practice in class to help build up their confidence and proficiency in telling time, adding coins, counting on a number grid and line, as well as using tally marks.
We will practice our second poem for our show titled: South America. Please have your child read over this poem each day as part of their reading homework.
Here are some themes/concepts covered this week in class.
Language Arts
* Phonics - long vowel e/ee, ea; Inflections -ed, -ing
* Spelling - seaweed, please, teacher, beneath, nearly, plus five high frequency words
* Vocabulary - anxious, ached, crooned, scent
* Reading - Stellaluna by Janell Cannon
* Reading Workshop: Readers help themselves understand the story by asking themselves questions as they read (What am I wondering? What questions do I have?); Readers help themselves understand the story by stopping and thinking after reading chunks of text; Readers help themselves understand the story by figuring out the author's purpose; Partners show respect for their reading time together by following the procedures of partner time (sitting hip to hip, using one books at a time, using quiet voices)
* Grammar - Parts of a sentence. A sentence has two parts - a naming part and a telling part. To find the naming part of a sentence, you can ask yourself, who or what the sentence is about. You can find the telling part by asking yourself what someone or something is or does.
* Grammar - Parts of a sentence. A sentence has two parts - a naming part and a telling part. To find the naming part of a sentence, you can ask yourself, who or what the sentence is about. You can find the telling part by asking yourself what someone or something is or does.
* Writing Workshop - Editing and publishing reflections; Topics from the Heart; Small Moment Narrative writing
* Handwriting Without Tears - Pencil grip and slanting paper; Frog Jump Capitals (FEDPBRNM)
Mathematics - Unit 1
* Comparing numbers using the relation symbols greater than, less than, equal to
* Introducing Home Links (Math Homework)
* Exploring Temperatures, Base 10 Structures and Dominoes
* Review Unit 1 and assessment
Social Studies
* Research facts about famous North America landmarks using World Book for Kids (Log-in : Shorecrest; Password: chargers). Student will put facts about their chosen North American landmark in a web and add to this throughout the week. They are learning to read and take notes.
Science - Changes - Freezing and Melting
* Students will observe and record the properties of ice;
* Students design and implement a method for melting an ice cube
* Students set up an investigation of evaporation
I wish you a wonderful week.
Ms. O'Mullane
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