Important Reminders
Visitors Passes
Please stop by the office any time you
come into the school (for breakfast, lunch or for a meeting, etc.) to get a
visitors pass. This is a safety issue and we need all adults
who visit to get a visitors pass when they come in.
Breakfast
Breakfast stops being served at
8:15. If you drop your child off please
try to have them here by at least 8:15 if they need to eat breakfast at
school. We have been dealing with a lot
of students who arrive right at 8:20 (which is when instruction is to begin)
who have not eaten breakfast. Eating in
the classroom is a distraction and messy.
Thank you for your support in this!
Toys at School
I have seen a lot of toys lately coming
to school. They are a HUGE distraction. Please keep toys at home.
Snack
Please send an individual snack in
your child’s backpack each day for him/her to eat during snack. Snack is not provided for your child at
school.
A fourth grade student started this project. She chose to research homelessness in Columbia. She contacted homeless shelters and surveyed them about their needs during this time of year. Now, to help meet those needs she is hosting a drive to collect supplies. The drive ends at the end of January.
Mrs. Townlain brought her puppy to class this week. We learned about the brain with her and talked about how we may not be able to do certain things but instead of saying "I can't." We say "I can't... YET!!" Our brain is amazing and we can learn all sorts of new things if we practice.
Reading
In shared reading we discussed using the picture and beginning letter sounds to decode unknown words.
In reading this week we got a few new literacy stations:
In the poetry station we added Five Little Snowmen to our poetry notebook and added said and want to the word wall. These are actually first grade no excuse words, but they are so common in books we read that we added them this week. The kids were really excited about having first grade words up! When the kids finished adding their new poem to their notebook they got to fish for beginning sounds.
In star this week the kids got to use the Snowy Day story to create their own story map.
In story telling we retold Snowy Day.
In math the kids first worked on rainbow numbers... just like rainbow words the kiddos got to practice writing numbers to 20 using many different colors. After that they used cars to drive on the numbers to practice formation.
Writing
We continued to write All About books this week. We charted different things we know all about and went step by step through the writing process for All About books. We first chose a topic and illustrated the cover of our book and wrote the title. Then we sketched across the pages, telling a different fact on each page. Finally we wrote the words.
Word Work
We continued to learn about secret stories this week. We learned about ch. We thought of different words that had the /ch/ sound and then used those words in silly sentences.
Math
We finished up our unit on numbers to 20 this week. We used our bodies to make the numbers 11-20, made a head band with a number to 20 on it and then formed a number line and we took a couple of end of unit assessments- write numbers to 20, rote count and number ID.
