Week 21 Recap
Posted on Sunday, January 27th, 2019 at 5:51 pmHi Everyone!
Past Week and Upcoming week:
Fun Run Fundraising:
This past week we were all introduced to Boosterthon’s Fun Run. This was the email I sent you on Friday regarding how we are raising money for our school’s field adventures and field trips. Our school is looking to raise money for students participating in the 6th and 9th grade field trips so that every child may have the opportunity to get to do those special trips.
Your child is looking for pledges for every lap that they run during the Fun Run. Every pledge helps our school goal. As the students help obtain pledges, we get classroom incentives, and your child also gets prizes from Boosterthon for certain goals. Please help out our class by this Friday. Thank you for all your donations and help in this event.
Our students finished up Math U See this past week for those who needed to finished up. Some students were able to complete the pages they have been working on and some students did as much as they know or were able to focus on. These Math U See mid year examples will be one example in your child’s portfolio.
We went on to learn more about the Westward Expansion in regards to reviewing what the Expansion was and also what the Louisiana Purchase was. This coming week we will look more closely at who President Thomas Jefferson was and what the Pony Express was. In Writing, your child will complete a 4 square writing graphic organizer on a person during the Westward Expansion time era or an invention from that era (telegraph, steam boat). 4 square writing allows your child to read an informational piece of reading and then take notes about what they learned and they classify the information into 4 categories. We will then turn this 4 square practice round into a piece of informational writing. I am hoping to have everyone complete their writing piece before conferences. Those who stay on task should have no problem achieving this goal.
Fun Run- On Friday February 1st, our class will have art with Ms. Trudy and then they will do the glow run at 9:50-10:50. Our small math lessons we normally do on Friday mornings will get done Thursday afternoon instead.
Last week we got to 2nd Geography and 3rd grade Science for cultural. This week 1st and 2nd graders will have Botany and History lessons while 3rd graders will do Zoology and History lessons. 3rd graders will be excited to know that we will begin learning about Dinosaurs! We begin the Triassic Period on Wednesday.
Spelling Bee: In February, our annual Spelling bee will take place. This week, since STEM week displays and all that are all over, I will be going over it with the students. I highly ask that your student try to practice and participate to try and be one of our classroom representatives for the Lower Elementary spelling bee. Those students who really decide that they don’t want to try will be asked to do a home project with the Spelling Bee words. Those students can make silly sentences with the words, create a card/board game with the words etc. (the creative choices are up to the child.) Those students who try their best and no matter if they make it to the Lower El Spelling Bee or not, will get credit towards participating in the Bee. The Spelling Bee words are copyrighted and I cannot post or email out a digital copy, I do not have the authority to do so. Your child will come home with a printed version of the Spelling Bee words. Those words will actually be the words chosen during the Bee on Feb 26th. Even students who are working on CVC words (consonant, vowel, consonant words) will find that the first column of 1st grade words are CVC words, allowing those students to feel successful in trying to do their best. Words lists will go out this week. Happy studying!
Chili Cook Off- Please visit the MMM email that is sent out if you would like to participate in the annual Chili Cook off or just come and try all the different kinds of wonderful chilis. It is next week and I believe it is the 30th of January. Please double check the flyer on the MMM.
PTC- Please sign up on Track It Forward to reserve your mid-year PTC. This is a student led conference and your child will be showing the work they have completed for their portfolio. On Wednesday Feb 13th, I have my daughter’s PTC from 1:45pm-2:00pm. If you sing up for the 1:50pm-2:10pm slot on Wednesday, please know I will be there for half of it, but Ms. Misha will be there too 🙂
Have a great rest of your weekend and upcoming week! Thanks 🙂
Ms. Kaley and Ms. Misha