A Week in Pictures: January 20

Writing Buddies

Writing Buddies

WRITING BUDDIES

Writing Buddies

In Writing, we have been working on telling a story across three pages with a beginning, middle and an end.  After they have drawn a detailed picture, they write a sentence about what is happening in the picture.  I am so proud of all of their hard work and the time that they put into writing the story.  On Friday ,we were able to share our work with 3rd grade buddies.  They had just finished writing realistic fiction stories.  All kids had such pride in sharing their work with others.  Mrs. Nickel even stopped by to listen in.  The pictures along the left side show our time with the buddies.

Adding to 10!

 Independence is a beautiful thing!  As the year has gone on, your children have learned the routines and know how to sustain their thinking for longer periods of time.  They are learning to have longer conversations about a given topic.  Every day, the kids surprise me.  Each day during math and word study time, I am able to assign familiar tasks so that I can work with small groups.  They are so good at following directions and completing the task at hand.  I have included some pictures to show them hard at work!  

Learning About Capacity - RICE

Puzzle Work

Letter Search

Learning about Capacity - Water

Science Chalk Talk - Pull Ideas

  

  LEARNING IS SO

MUCH FUN!!!

Valentine's Day

We will be having a Valentine's Day breakfast on February 14th.  A letter will come home this week with specifics about the party.  I will be sending home a class list with small pictures of each child.  This way when they are filling out their Valentine Cards, they can glue the picture to the back of the card so that the card is "mailed" to the correct classmate.  As it stands right now, our 100's Day celebration will be on the same date.  The only way this would change is if we have a snow day before then.

NEEDED:  If you would be willing to donate Valentine stickers, heart shaped lace doilies, valentine foam pieces, please send them into school with your child before January 31st.  We will be decorating our Valentine "Mailboxes" with these items.

Take Home Bags

We have learned many new games to practice this year.  I will be sending home the Take Home Bags again on Tuesday.  They will be due back on Friday.  Each child will bring home either a math bag or the traveling animal this week.  Now that we have learned so many new things, I want to give the kids more practice with these skills.  Each bag will have all materials needed for the activity.  The kids are super excited to share their learning with you.  All I ask is that you return all materials back in the bag the way that they were sent home to you. 

Student Council Candy Sale - Student Council will be selling Suckers for $1 each on Valentine's Day.  If you would like your child to purchase one, send in money with your child on that day.