Happy Valentine’s Day!
Yesterday we celebrated the 100th day of school and today we are celebrating Valentine’s day...what an exciting start to the week! Thank you to everyone who donated treats for our party this afternoon.
Next week (Feb. 20-23) I will be traveling to New York to attend an institute at Teachers College at Columbia University. I will be learning more about small groups and conferring...I’m looking forward to learning new things and bringing them back to our school and our classroom. While I am out Luann Desmond will be our guest teacher. I will be checking email but if it is something that needs to be addressed that day please contact the school office.
See below for some opportunities to volunteer your time to help with upcoming New Directions’ activities:
Here is the sign up link for Knowledge-a-thon
This is the link for people to donate cookie for the Music and Masterpieces family night
This is the link for people to sign up to help serve the cookies at the M and M family night
Reminder:
We’ll be collecting items for “Birthday Boxes” at our Music, Masterpieces and Munchies family night on February 27th. We'll have boxes out in the lobby to collect donations. Some ideas for items are: cake mixes, frosting, candles, hats, balloons, decorations, napkins, plates, etc
Classroom Need: We are in need of more pens for writing. We use the Paper Mate: Flair Pens in black. If you are out and about and could pick up a pack we would appreciate it! Thank you!
Upcoming Events:
February 14: Valentine’s Day
February 17: Six Flags Reading Logs Due
February 23: Early Release
February 24: No School for Students
February 27: Family Night: Music, MasterPieces and Munchies
Reading: Students have been really digging in and getting to know their characters! This week we will be paying attention to the illustrations and setting to help us learn more about our characters. We will also be studying tricky words and figuring out what they mean by reading the words around them, making a picture in our mind, and thinking about what makes sense. We will also be working with our partners to talk about what we are learning about our characters and growing ideas about our characters.
Writing: We have begun our Writing Like a Scientist Unit. How exciting! Don’t be surprised if first grade scientists start setting up experiments at home. This week we will be working through the scientific method together by conducting a whole class experiment and writing up a lab report. Our lab reports will include materials, question, hypothesis, procedure, results and conclusions. After we practice doing a couple experiments together, students will be planning, conducting and writing up their own experiments in a couple of weeks.
Word Work: The new words this week are: got, if, did, let, our, house. Please have your child practice these words on a regular basis. As they become fluent with them, it’s helps them with their reading and writing.
Math: We are finishing up our unit on Friday. By the end of our unit students should be able to count, read, and write numerals to 120, add and subtract 10s, use strategies to add and subtract within 20 and solve story problems and add three numbers to solve story problems. We have been doing lots of work with numbers through 20 and using a variety of strategies to solve problems. This week we will be adding and subtracting tens. We’ll use a hundred grid to help us notice patterns, and count up by 10s starting at a variety of different numbers. You can practice at home by saying a 2 digit number and having your child tell you what 10 more or 10 less is (What is 10 more than 48? What is 10 less?). Then we will focus on adding and subtracting multiples of 10. For example, 80 + 20, 50 - 30.
Content: We will be continuing to investigate liquids this week. We will be studying how they flow and mix by participating in hands on centers, using liquids such as glue, water, shampoo and oil. Check out our blog post yesterday for photos of our liquids investigation!
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