Yesterday we celebrated our hundredth day of school! We did various activities in the morning including 100 exercises! Carl Calendar came in and lead the students in 100 exercises (if you haven’t heard about Carl, he’s one of the many people who comes in on occasions to teach calendar). If your child is participating in the 5210 schools on the move challenge, you can log in their calendar that they did 30 minutes of exercising!
Due to having indoor recess this week, we’ve been doing some more wii fit exercises that find on youtube. So, if your child comes home, wanting to do some wii fit and you don’t have a wii. Just search wii fit on youtube. They’re convinced they’re really doing it, and I haven’t said anything otherwise. I’m glad we’re keeping active when the weather doesn’t permit us to.
I’LL BE GONE: I will be out of the classroom the next 2 Fridays. I am taking a training course through the school district on math instruction.
THE SCHOOLS ON THE MOVE 5210 CHALLENGE: In last week’s Thursday folder was a form to fill out for the month of February’s Schools on the move challenge. This is a program to encourage students, school staff, and families, to adopts 5210 Healthy Habits (5 fruits and vegetables, 2 hours or less of screen time, 1 hour of physical activity, and 0 sugary drinks a day). Throughout the month of February, be filling out your child’s form. You can print a new activity log through healthykids.org. Families who meet the 60 check challenge receive a t-shirt. Logs must be filled out completely and returned to school by Wednesday March 5.
CLOTHING: If you’re child wears boots to school for playing outside, I would recommend sending a pair of shoes in their backpack that they can change into on days they have PE.
NO SCHOOL: Monday February 17
VALENTINE’S DAY PARTY: We will be having a Valentine ’s Day party on Friday February 14. Our lovely classroom parents, Michael and Abbey Sharp will be putting together the party and would love volunteers to help out at the party and parents to bring supplies for the party. If this is something you are interested in doing, you can e-mail Abbey at [email protected]
SIGHT WORDS/ READING LOGS: February reading logs are going home today. Please read with your child every night and sign the days you read with your child. Continue to practice the pink and yellow sight words.
Thanks for sharing your wonderful children with me. Have lovely weekend!
Margaret Sandberg
Here’s what we worked on this week:
Do your best.
Do what’s right.
Treat others as you want to be treated.
Reading: *We are now doing 2 letter sounds and high frequency words per week
Identifying the letters and sounds Hh, Dd, and Rr
High-frequency word are, for, you
finding the main idea in a story
knowing the difference between main idea and details
Summarizing and Sequencing a story
Making Predictions
Blending with letters (dad d…a…d, ddaaad, dad) , isolating sounds (dolphin begins with the letter ‘d’ and ends with the letter ‘n’), rhyming (map, tap)
Writing:
Students are working towards writing 2-3 sentences about 1 topic (adding details to their writing)
Continued to work on 5 star writing (finger spaces, uppercase letters at the beginning of a sentence, picture matches writing, sounding out and spelling words we know correctly, and punctuation marks at the end)
Practiced sequence writing (first, next, than, last)
Math:
We identified numbers on a 100s number graph
We talked about the penny and the nickel and practiced counting by 5s and 1s. We also traded in 5 pennies for 1 nickel.
We learned to identify 3-dimensional shapes (cone, sphere, rectangular prism,
Science:
We are learning about wood and paper and where it comes from