We certainly had a wonderful Valentine's party last Thursday. A HUGE THANK YOU to Charlene Hosseini for the delicious chocolate fountain! What a special treat it was to have strawberries, bananas, marshmallows, pretzels, and rice krispy treats for dipping. Mmmmm good! She also decorated a beautiful table! Thank you to all the parents who came to help us celebrate! This is always the children's favorite holiday to celebrate at school! I added lots of pictures to our shutterfly site so if you weren't able to join us, you can take a peek at the fun! Parents, as always, please add any pictures you took!
Scholastic Book Orders: I added a gadget to the right side of the blog that will take you directly to Scholastic's website so that you can place book orders online! Be sure to plug in our classroom code. Remember that you will receive a coupon for a free book for placing an order online. Of course, you may also send in the paper order form (with check) to me and I will place the order for you. Please do whatever is most convenient for you. Not only are you getting a great deal on books for your child to read at home, but our class earns free books when you order! So, the children and I thank you!
We have another short week at school due to the President's Day holiday, but, as always, we will be busy as we have fun learning! Here's a peek at some of the things we will be doing.
Word Work: The children and I went through their word rings last week and they took home all of the words they can read with automaticity. As these words come home throughout the year, I encourage you to have your child practice alphabetizing by filing them alphabetically in a plastic word box. Please continue to review reading and spelling these words as well. This week our word work will focus on spelling patterns ending with -ll (all, ell, ill).
Reading Workshop: We'll get to know the characters in our books and talk about them with our partners. We'll learn to use several sources to help us get to know the characters, such as the illustrations, narration, and dialogue. Our reading response notebooks will come home this week. Look for them in your child's green bag on Wednesday! The children will use their just right book (in their baggie) to complete a graphic organizer on the main idea and supporting details. The graphic organizer will be glued inside the yellow reading response notebook. It is the same graphic organizer that we used and completed today in class with our Scholastic News Weekly Reader.
Writing Workshop: We began a new unit on "writing for readers". We decided on some things that we can do to make our writing easy for readers to read, including the correct use of capitalization and punctuation, appropriate spacing, neat handwriting without a lot of erasing, as well as using resources and all that we know to help spell the best we can. When your child writes at home, encourage him/her to think about the things that make writing easy to read!
Math: On Valentine's Day, Mrs. Gross helped us with some yummy math! We graphed candy hearts and used them to practice addition facts!
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| Leni, Cyrus, Kaja, and Carson have fun with some yummy Candy Heart Math! |
Science: We will continue learning about the planets of our solar system as the children present their planet projects.
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| Carson and Phoebe present their project on Mercury. |
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| Cyrus and Matthew present their project on Neptune. |
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| Kate and Sydney use tissue paper to make the land and water of planet Earth. |
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| Phoebe, Ben, and Keith have fun using cray-pas and glitter to make the planet, Jupiter. |
Other important reminders:
School is closed on Monday, February 18, for Presidents' Day.
Our class will be leading Town Meeting on February 25.
Our class will be leading Town Meeting on February 25.
Class Picture Day will be on Tuesday, February 26. Picture order forms are available online on our website under Community-Parents Page and in E-bytes.
The Relay for Life Cookout will be on Thursday, February 28. Hotdogs and tofu dogs will be served. Please return your order form and plan to have lunch with your child on this day if you can. All proceeds will be donated to Relay for Life. There will be no Sage lunch offered that day!
March 7 is Field Day.
March 8 will be a Professional Development Day for teachers. Spring Break for students begins Friday, March 8. School resumes for students on Monday, March 18.
Heads-up: March 18, the day the students return from Spring Break, will be Character Day during Reading Week in the Lower School! Your child will be asked to choose a character from a favorite book and come to school dressed as that character and prepared to talk about their character/book.
Reading Week will be the week of March 18 - 22. The entire week will be dedicated to Mrs. Weinman. The schedule is as follows:
Monday - Character Day! All children in the Lower School will be dressed as their favorite book character and bring their book with them to Town Meeting!
Tuesday - "Drop Everything and Read" Day - Your child will need to bring a beach towel to sit on and several books to read as the Lower School will read together outside from 8:15 - 8:50.
Wednesday - We will view the Bookshelf Project with Mrs. Smay.
Thursday - Mystery Reader and Buddy Reading
Friday - Oldie Goldie Book Sale
On Monday, March 25, we will dedicate the new playground to Mrs. Weinman and the children are asked to bring a flowering plant for the garden in memory of her. We will be planting them that day. The memorial will begin at 8:05a.m. Parents are welcome to join us.
Volunteers this week:
- Wednesday - Library Checkout - 2:10 - Kristen Danielson and Mary Hind
- Thursday - Math Game - 10:30 - Donna Main
- Friday - Art - 9:15 - Sharon Cannella
- Friday - Parent Reader - 2:15 - Lorraine Thorpe
Have a great week!
Susan
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