9.14.12

WEEK FIVE

Next Week:
Memory: John 1:29

Religion: Moses

Grammar: Writing Sentences

Spelling: Lesson 5

Reading: Literacy Centers and Guided Reading

  Writing: Part 1 of our story: What we do each day

  Name: Sort vowels in our names

  Poetry: Look for consonant clusters in the poem, A Seed

  Phonics: Build words with the -est, -end, -elt, -en, and -et chunks

  Alphabet: Change the beginning letter to make a new word

Math:  Addition sentences, addition facts: doubles, ordinal numbers 

Science: Seeds and how plants grow, Eating plant parts

TEST Friday, over p. A18-A53, books will go home Wednesday

Social Studies: Who Helps Us at School?

Art: Paul Klee

NEWS AND NOTES

Orange Book Bags:  

Your child will come home each Monday with a different BOOK BAG.  The goal is to expose the class to various genres of books as well as have them spend time being read to and/or reading own their own.  Please feel free to keep the BOOK BAGS all week and weekend.  Please make sure the bags are brought back on Monday so that the next child can read the books in that bag.

Leveled Reading Books:

Starting next week, each Monday your child will bring home a book that is on your child's level and your child should be able to read it with minimal help.  Please have your child read these books, they should even read them several times.  This helps to build fluency and self confidence.  Please send the books back on Friday. Each week your child will receive a new book. 

Guided Reading:

We had our first week of Guided Reading groups and they went well!  I look forward to enjoying many more books with the children this year.

Alphabet Videos:

Mrs. Helmkamp worked with our first graders this week to take pictures and then create videos about things in our classroom that started with the letters of the alphabet. 

Spirit Day:
Our next spirit day is Friday, September 21.  We encourage the boys and girls, parents and teachers to dress to show school spirit!  Ask the kids who we are and they'll tell you...Bobcat Nation!

Check out what we did this week:

Mileage Club

Dissecting an Apple and 

Creating a Graph to Compare Number of Seeds

Creating Shape Buildings 

inspired by the work of Paul Klee

Guided Reading

 Taking Pictures at the Computer Center

 Ordering Numbers and Recording them

Matching colors to the written word 

and finding them in the poem, Colors

 Finding an action word that starts 

with the same sound as a friend's name

Creating videos with our pictures with Mrs. Helmkamp

 Making a Book of Colors

Matching Ending Sounds

Making new words with chunks

Reading our Library Books

 Writing Workshop

Star of the Week

Learning About Why Schools Have Rules

 Cup Stacking in PE

 

Watching the 8th Grade Rockets Launch