Friday Note 2-24-17

Friday Note - 2/24/17

This Week: Our theme was nursery rhymes. Our sight word was “do”.  

• In math we continued to work on subtraction.  We are learning to separate from a group to find out how many are left over and write a number sentence to represent the problem.    

• Language Workshop— We read many different nursery rhymes.  We also made Jack and Jill and Hey Diddle Diddle books to add to our book books.  
• Writing Workshop— We practiced writing an opinion piece together as a class.  An opinion piece consists of three sentences (or more).  The first sentence states an opinion (P.E. is my favorite special class).  The next two sentences give reasons why.  The first time as class we wrote about our favorite special class.  Later in the week students wrote on on their own. The first day they wrote their opinion. THe second day they wrote a reason. The third day they wrote another reason why that is their favorite special class.  Please have your child read their writing to you.  We also completed a sentence assessment this week.  Please look over this with your child and encourage your child to work on writing at home.  Remember, I will be looking for your child to be forming letters correctly, using spaces, writing first and last name correctly, writing more sounds they are hearing in words and writing a complete sentence on 3rd quarter Progress Reports next month.  
• Reading Workshop—Students are working daily in Literacy Centers.  While students are working independently, I am meeting with small groups 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.  I hope that you are able to see them using these reading strategies when they are reading with you at home.
• Word Study— We focused on the middle vowel sounds in words.

Important Dates:

• March 1-31: Box Top Contest
• March 3:  Cox CARE Mobile
• March 9:  Reading Journey Ends (logs due)
• March 10: 3rd Quarter Read-a-thon
• March 10:  End of 3rd Quarter
• March 13-17: No School - Spring Break!
• March 27-30: NWEA Testing
• March 28 & 30: Spring Conferences

Dr. Seuss Week:  

Please encourage your child to participate as we celebrate Dr. Seuss’ birthday all week.  We will read different books and complete fun activities each day.  

Monday: Wear green

Tuesday: Wear pajamas

Wednesday: Wear wacky clothes and wacky hair

Thursday: Wear your favorite hat

Friday: Wear crazy socks & mismatched shoes

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   they   in   of   do

We had 9,501 Box Tops turned in during our last contest!  Mrs. Verch’s 2nd grade won with 805 turned in from their class.  Next contest runs from March 1-31.  

Next Week:

• We will celebrate Dr. Seuss Week.
• We will continue working on understanding subtraction.  
• Our sight word will be “not”.
• We will review rhyming, syllables, segmenting & blending, ending sounds & medial sounds.  
• We will begin end of quarter assessments.    

Have a Great Weekend!!

Mrs. Wenger