Week 20

 Dear Parents,

       This week in math we worked on practice math papers that had skills that we have learned the whole year. We took 2 days to take our math , middle of year CBA. We also worked on writing word form, expanded form, standard form and models of numbers to 1,200.

         In writing we finished up our New Year resolutions and wrote our final copies of a note to someone we know. We will be continuing on by writing a friendly letter as well, next week. 

          In reading and social studies, we learned about the differences between maps and globes and did a Venn diagram as a quiz to show what we learned. We got to see globes and three different kinds of maps up close. We learned about Martin Luther King Jr., read a Scholastic News about him and did a reading check point. We began making a Cloud where we tell about our dream for the world.

           In science we finished up our unit about the effects of wind and water. We took our unit test. We also had the chance to have the Wonder Wagon visit our school again. We worked in small groups to do two different stations. We used the indi car and set up colored pads to tell indi where to go. We also used an ipad and connected to a movable tree house. We set up a code to tell the tree house different commands. A huge thank you to Jennifer Speer and Roshawnda Dulin for volunteering to help us with these fun activities.

          The 100^th day of school is coming up. I have 11 children that have notes in their coyote folders to bring in one item for our 100^th day snack. Please check your child’s folder so you can have the food item to school on our 100^th day.

 

Have a wonderful three day weekend with your family! 😊

Week 18

 Dear Parents,

            The week before break was fast and furious and full of fun activities. As it was our swim week, this left little time for academics, but we kept on track with our math lessons every day. We were focusing on place value of numbers to 1,200. We placed them on number lines, com posed them, decomposed them as well as compared them with the signs of greater than, less than or equal to.They showed  their understanding of place value and representing numbers with model, base ten, and expanded form.

          In reading we read the SN Article: The History of Gingerbread and complete the reading checkpoint and text features page. We also got to try a gingerbread cookie! Most of them liked it but a few thought that it was spicy! We also read and discussed the story: The Polar Express . The students  completed the sequencing of the story and wrote about the best gift ever If they were finished with their work. We had small group reading each day and kept that routine.

           In writing we were finishing up papers that explained how Wilma Rudolph was a leader. We wrote to a prompt as this is a skill they will see on the STAAR test. We also wrote a creative story as if we lived in a snow globe. We began learning cursive lowercase letters and practiced reading cursive words.

            We had our Winter Party on Thursday. A big thank you to Thuytien Vu for putting it all together and decorating our door as Rudolph. The children had a blast eating snacks, making a craft, and playing fun games!

           On Friday we had our Early Release Day. That morning we had our Recognition Rally. The students from our room who were recognized were Cherish and Shae. They were exemplary leaders in our room this second nine weeks. We had fun watching some leadership videos and singing along to holiday music. Our class won the Spirit Stick at the assembly!

            I hope you all had a restful holiday break and I look forward to seeing my kiddos back Jan. 7^th! We are half way through this year. Happy 2025!