News You Can Use!

Literacy 

Treasures:

This week, the children worked with long o (o_e). The children read stories about birds. They worked with making inferences. Using their schema (what they know) and text clues the children made inferences about the story. 

Grammar Packets:

This week, the children learned that the verbs was and were tell about the past. Was tells about one person, place, or thing. Were tells about more than one person, place, or thing. The children worked to complete sentences using was and were. 

Math 

In Math, the children made a Dice-Throw Record of facts. Using their chart they answered questions about their rolls and which sum had the most facts (7). They were introduced to the Addition Facts Table. Using the Addition Facts Table, the children found the sums of several addition facts. The children enjoyed playing Addition Top-It to practice their math facts.

On Tuesday, the children were introduced to Name-Collection boxes. They used dominoes, drawings, tally marks, base-10 blocks, and addition/ subtraction facts to show equivalent names for numbers. 

On Wednesday, the children worked with fact families. They looked at a domino and identified the three numbers that went with it. Then they wrote two addition and two subtraction facts using the three numbers from their domino. They learned that the addition and subtraction facts make up a fact family. After learning about fact families, the children enjoyed mixing up some of their own. Rolling two dice, they came up with several different fact families. 

Social Studies

This week, we continued our social studies unit on Patriotism. The children learned about U.S. Symbols. Each child had the opportunity to research one U.S. Symbol. They used PebbleGo to research and then wrote two facts about their symbol. 

After researching, the children used the iPad app Explain Everything to create a slide about their symbol. We complied the slides into a slide show titled, U. S. Symbols. 

Today, each child presented their slide to the class. After viewing the slide show, the children completed the book, America the beautiful. The book allowed the children to revisit all the facts they learned about the different symbols this week. 

100th Day Fun!

On Thursday, the children celebrated the 100th day of school. They looked great dressed up like they were 100! The children enjoyed participating in an assortment of 100th day activities. They created a 100th day crown showing different ways to make 100. The children heard the story, 100th Day Worries. They wrote a story about what they would do if they had 1oo dollars. In the afternoon, the children had 100th day math stations. They ended the day by using the iPad to created a photo and writing about what they will do when they are 100. We had a wonderful 100th day of school! Enjoy our slide show below. 

Star Student

Ayva was our star student this week. Thanks Ayva for sharing all about you!

Royal Reader

A special thank you to Ayva’s Mom, she joined us this week as our Royal Reader. The children enjoyed listening to the two stories that Ms. Kraft read, There’s a Wocket in My Pocket! and The Giving Tree. 

Birthday

Today we celebrated Chloe’s birthday. Her birthday is in August but since we will not be in school, Chloe wanted to celebrate her half birthday. Happy 1/2 birthday Chloe!

Notes:

• We are in need of glue sticks. Please send in a couple when you can!
• The ingredients list for our valentine treats came home in your child’s red folder today, please let me know if you have any questions.
• If you would like, you can send in your child’s valentine box and valentines before Thursday.

Have a great rest of the weekend!