Feb. 25-March 1

Hello Families,

This week, we are celebrating on of our favorite author, Dr. Suess!!! His birthday is March 3. Read Across America is March 2.  We will be having activities in math, reading, art, and science that are themed with Dr. Suess.  Students who want to dress up daily to match the book we are reading that day.  Also, students can bring in a book to share of Dr. Suess.  We will dress up on Friday with our hats and bow ties.

Monday: Dress up in stripes for "The Cat in the Hat"
Tuesday: Dress up in green for  "Green Eggs and Ham"
Wednesday: mix and match (backwards, inside out, etc.) for "Wacky Wednesday"
Thursday: something red or blue for "One fish Two fish Blue fish Red fish"
Friday:  Crazy socks "Fox on Socks"

Word wall words: want, feet

Writers workshop: Finishing up our "How to" book and celebrating on Friday with our buddies.

In Math:  In counting collections, students are exploring grouping of 2's, 5's, 10's, and other grouping.  Please practice at home.  Also, we have been discussing "place value" and counting the 10 way.  For example: for 12 it is 1 ten two.  This is to help with placing the ten in the correct place.

In Readers workshop: We are focusing on sounding out words instead of guessing.  You can use clues with the pictures to identify each letter in the word.

Thanks to the parents who helped with the Math Festival!  The class had a great time exploring the different math activities.

Thanks for walking students to the upper playground in the morning.  It has been very cold in the mornings, so please send jacket or sweatshirt to school.

Next round of sharing for "Star of the Day"!! Something about spring.  Put it in a bag with 3 clues and their name.

Have a great week,
Ms. Werner

Feb. 18-22

Hello Families,

   This next week, there no school on Monday, Feb. 18.  On Tuesday, we have our math festival from 11:50-12:30.  We still need some volunteers to help out with the math centers. 

We will continue learning about presidents and our country.  Also, we will start discussing dental awareness for February!  Please encourage students to brush teeth, floss and eat healthy foods.  We continue our biography study in RTI as well as in talking about autobiographies. 

In Writers Workshop, we will be finishing up our "How to" books and be celebrating our stories on February 27th.  We will be reading them with our buddies on Friday, March 1.

In Readers Workshop, we are talking about reading with fluency not robot reading.  When reading at home try to help them with reading for fluency with our take home books.  If students still continue to sound out the words have them repeat the sentence with fluency for understanding.  Please remind them that reading is for understanding/comprehending not just able to read the words.  Some students need to slow down with returning the take home books until they master fluency and comprehension.

Word Wall words: will, come

Students are showing so much interest in donating to "Pennies for Patients".  So proud of these students for giving their money for research to help other children.  All money due Friday, February 22.

In Math, we will continue with subtraction and addition with word problems.  We will start having them come up with their own word problems to solve and share.  We will have different types of math games using positional words, and money recognition. 

Have a great weekend!!
Ms. Werner

Feb. 11-15

Hello Families,

This Monday is a holiday! We will see you on Tuesday for centers to celebrate Abe Lincoln's birthday.  We will be creating a log cabin in honor of Abe Lincoln.  We will also be playing a game with pennies.

 We will celebrate Valentine's Day on Thursday.  I will have some independent centers with fun Valentine activities.  If you would like to help, please email me.  I only need a couple helpers for the centers.  Thanks to Kristi for helping me plan the party.

Word wall words:  they, of

Math:  We will be still working on addition and subtraction.  I am so impressed with the different strategies students have been able to use to solve word problems.  We will play a game with a penny using positional words to find the penny.  

Math Festival is Tuesday, February 19th.  We still need helpers, please email me or Alyssa Davis.  Thanks!

I would like to thank everyone for all the supplies For 100th Day of school and Chinese New Year!

Just reminder to please slow down on reading, if you child is still sounding out words instead of reading it fluently.  If there are too many pages to read and they are struggling remember only read a few pages at a time. :) 

Reminders:

No school Monday, February 18.

Have a lovely long weekend!

Ms. Werner

Feb. 4-8

Hello Families,

This week, we had so much fun learning about polar bears and how animals adapt to the cold areas.   We did a science experiment on blubber.  Ask your child about what they learned about blubber.  Also, we learned about camouflage and what would it look like to have a polar bear in the forest compared to the snow.  

Next week, we have many celebrations!  On Monday, we are celebrating  the100th day of school.  We have 4 fun centers planned to celebrate with the number 100!!!!  On Tuesday, Chinese New Year begins and we will have a few fun activities to celebrate and we also will have a parade on Wednesday.  

Readers Workshop:  We will be introducing what vocabulary is and how to identify the definition of the word. We will be talking about biographies and autobiographies.  We will also introduce what a contraction is and how it is made up  of 2 words.

Writers Workshop:  We will be "picking a seed".  Which means out of all of our stories, we will choose one story to edit and turn into our publishing piece. Our celebration will be later in February.

word wall words: friend, from

Math:  Wow! I was so impressed with our CGI word problem this week!  Students are starting to understand so many ways to solve both addition and subtraction word problems.  Celebrate your child at home with how amazing their math knowledge is becoming with subtracting and adding!  Continue to practice mental math by sharing real world word problems to see if they can figure it out home.  Also, we have finished unit 4 in math!  So if you haven't done unit 4 in the homework book, now is the time.

Thank you all for all the supplies!!! I really appreciate the support!!!

Pennies for patients is our next fundraiser. Student Leadership will be coming to talk to our class on Monday about the fundraiser. Your child will be bringing home their own container to collect money for this worthwhile cause.  More info will be coming home on Monday!

Some items we need for Valentine's project: 

We need the big grocery paper bags for our Valentine's bag.  If you can send in some bags that would be great.  Thanks!  Also, for Valentine's Day, we would appreciate for you just to leave the "to" blank and write only the "from" on their Valentines.  It is too hard for the kids to pass out when they have all names on them since they are still just learning to read. Thanks!

Have a great week!  Have fun with the stormy weather and keep safe!  In March, we talk about weather and clouds!!!

Have a nice weekend,

Ms. Werner