Tomorrow is our field trip to the County Office of Education, where we will be participating in an Author's Fair. The children will view art work, listen to a story and visit with Patty Hall, an author who writes stories about Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy.
Please send a sack lunch and snack for your child. We will not go to the morning assembly. Children will come directly to the classroom instead.
Thanks again for your support,
Melanie
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Friday, March 13, 2009
Math
Please take time each evening to help your child sort, identify, and count pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters. We will be working on this unit through March and then will be using coins for addition and subtraction.
A great money activity, is to play store with your child. Start small. Begin by having the items cost less than ten cents. This way the children can use pennies and then learn to trade them in for nickels. Gradually increase the price of the items and add dimes and maybe, quarters.
Enjoy the weekend,
Melanie
Remember next week is Spirit Week.
A great money activity, is to play store with your child. Start small. Begin by having the items cost less than ten cents. This way the children can use pennies and then learn to trade them in for nickels. Gradually increase the price of the items and add dimes and maybe, quarters.
Enjoy the weekend,
Melanie
Remember next week is Spirit Week.
Monday, March 9, 2009
Literacy/Science
Over the next few weeks we will be exploring the "big ideas" in nonfiction text. Books about science, nature and animals lend themselves to this genre. Students will gather information and find the main idea by using text structures and features.
This focus will go nicely with our new science unit, "Animals Two by Two". Students will learn about snails, worms (my favorite), isopods and fish. Please consider taking a trip to the library to borrow nonfiction books about these animals.
I am sending home an extended high frequency word list today. This list should take us through to June. I can't believe I'm talking about the end of the year!
More to come later in the week,
Melanie
This focus will go nicely with our new science unit, "Animals Two by Two". Students will learn about snails, worms (my favorite), isopods and fish. Please consider taking a trip to the library to borrow nonfiction books about these animals.
I am sending home an extended high frequency word list today. This list should take us through to June. I can't believe I'm talking about the end of the year!
More to come later in the week,
Melanie
Friday, March 6, 2009
The Garden
Hi All,
Please check your child's backpack this evening. The children harvested all of the lettuce growing in our garden. Each child is bringing home a small bag of delicous (almost clean) lettuce for your salad this evening!
Have a restful weekend,
Melanie
Please check your child's backpack this evening. The children harvested all of the lettuce growing in our garden. Each child is bringing home a small bag of delicous (almost clean) lettuce for your salad this evening!
Have a restful weekend,
Melanie
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Room 13 Information and Math Concepts
Dear Families,
I apologize for being so lax about blogging over the past few weeks! I'll give you a quick recap of what's been going on.
We had a wonderful time at our 100th Day celebration. The students moved through seven different activities and there were plenty of volunteers! A very big "Thank You" to Missy, Diane, Gillian and James!
The Jog-A-Thon was also a lot of fun. We walked and jogged for 30 minutes. The children did a great job and we were all very tired when the time was up!
We are beginning a new math unit on numbers 11 thru 30. The focus is on tens and ones. The children will work with ten's frames to make and compare numbers. Also, please help your child to practice counting on.
Our next math unit focuses on money. The children will identify pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters. They will also be responsible for learning the value of each coin. It's never to soon to begin this process! So please begin working with your child at home. Please teach the concept of counting on by using dimes, nickels and pennies.
And, finally, the current reporting period ends on Friday. Parent/teacher conferences are scheduled for the first week in April. Please make space on your calendar now.
More about reading and writing expectations next week.
I apologize for being so lax about blogging over the past few weeks! I'll give you a quick recap of what's been going on.
We had a wonderful time at our 100th Day celebration. The students moved through seven different activities and there were plenty of volunteers! A very big "Thank You" to Missy, Diane, Gillian and James!
The Jog-A-Thon was also a lot of fun. We walked and jogged for 30 minutes. The children did a great job and we were all very tired when the time was up!
We are beginning a new math unit on numbers 11 thru 30. The focus is on tens and ones. The children will work with ten's frames to make and compare numbers. Also, please help your child to practice counting on.
Our next math unit focuses on money. The children will identify pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters. They will also be responsible for learning the value of each coin. It's never to soon to begin this process! So please begin working with your child at home. Please teach the concept of counting on by using dimes, nickels and pennies.
And, finally, the current reporting period ends on Friday. Parent/teacher conferences are scheduled for the first week in April. Please make space on your calendar now.
More about reading and writing expectations next week.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Literacy
Our new Unit of Study focuses exploration of characters to help us understand the stories we read. The students will describe how the characters act, feel and talk. We will be revisiting fairy and folk tales that we read earlier in the year.
In phonics, we are continuing to work with short vowel sounds. This week our focus is on short Ee.
The animal character that accompanies this sound is Edna Elephant. Some of the word families we are working with are; et, eck, ed, en.
Please continue to help your child learn the twenty-five sight words. I am also adding some extra words each week.
The children are writing stories about personal experiences. Many of their stories are about trips, families, pets and friends. When your children write at home, encourage them to sound out the words using one finger for each sound. It is much more powerful for the children to sound out the words themselves. Please try not to make the sounds for your children.
Please let me know if you would like some pointers on reading and writing with your children.
In phonics, we are continuing to work with short vowel sounds. This week our focus is on short Ee.
The animal character that accompanies this sound is Edna Elephant. Some of the word families we are working with are; et, eck, ed, en.
Please continue to help your child learn the twenty-five sight words. I am also adding some extra words each week.
The children are writing stories about personal experiences. Many of their stories are about trips, families, pets and friends. When your children write at home, encourage them to sound out the words using one finger for each sound. It is much more powerful for the children to sound out the words themselves. Please try not to make the sounds for your children.
Please let me know if you would like some pointers on reading and writing with your children.
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