Mrs. Wenger's Blog

Friday Note 1/30/15

This Week:  We started off the week by celebrating the 101^st day with a Dalmatian Celebration.  In math we started learning about subtraction.  We began a research and writing project over walruses.  Our sight word this week was “are”. 

·         Language Workshop— We spent the week researching walruses.  We read a variety of books and used many resources to help us find facts.  As we gathered information on walruses, we wrote a list of facts about them.  Next week, we’ll write an informational paper as a class about walruses.

·          Writing Workshop—We continued working on writing complete sentences.  We practiced looking at a picture and writing about it. 

·         Reading Workshop—Students are working daily in Literacy Centers.  While students are working independently, I am meeting with small groups or individual students to focus on different reading skills.  During independent reading time students are practicing the skills they are learning during small groups and using their reading strategies.

·         Word Study— We practiced segmenting and blending phonemes.  We are learning to pronounce the beginning, middle and ending sound in words then blend them back together (ex: /j/ /e/ /t/ = jet). 

Important Dates:

o   Feb. 13: Valentine’s Party

o   Feb. 16: No School

o   Feb 9-12- Cheer Clinic practice until 5:00pm

o   Feb 13 – Cheer Clinic performances  K-4 performance at JV half-time, 5-8 Varsity half-time

Reading Challenge

If your child returned their book bag today they received their first sticker towards our reading challenge.  Please encourage your child to read these books several times before returning them.    

Sight Words—Keep practicing!

I   is   like   see   my   a   the   be   have   it   he   she

   to   can   with   go   we   me   you   and   are

The Character word for January is:

Perseverance

(Never, ever quit!)

Library Books

Remember to take care of the library books while they are at your house!  A good idea is to keep the library book in your child’s backpack when it is not being read.  Library books are due back each Thursday, so your child can check out a new book.

February Lunch Menu

There is an error on our February lunch menu. The printed dates for the last 2 days of February are incorrect. The dates show as “22 & 23” and should be “26 & 27”. The menu items are correct and the days still line up in terms of days of the week (Thursday & Friday). 

Thank you for attending our P.E. performance last night!  

Next Week:

• We will continue our class research project about walruses.
• We will continue our unit on subtraction.
• Our sight word will be “they”.
• We will practice building and writing sight words.

Have a great weekend!!

Mrs. Wenger