We have continued to work on summarizing our stories this week in guided reading. We have used the SOMEBODY WANTED, BUT, SO, THEN format. This format helps us keep our summaries brief and focused on the main ideas of the story. Some students have looked at nonfiction texts and how authors can use subtitles to emphasize the main points of the text. We also continue to review our strategies to decode unknown words when we come upon them. Your children are using a lot of these strategies without even thinking about them! They have made so much progress in reading. 
Miss Fate has guided the children while working in their grammar books and also helped the students create an adorable Valentine's Day gift for YOU! We hope you like them.
Independently, the students have created V-day cards for their buddies, listened to stories in the listening center, worked on their number scrolls, practiced spelling words and created other V-day crafts.
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| The only clue we will give you about your special gift! |
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| Carter's card for his buddy. |
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| Using candy hearts to write sentences! |
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| Spelling/Handwriting Contest! |
This week in math Miss Fate introduced fractions using some great visuals----pizza slices and apples! While Miss Fate worked on fractions, Mrs. Waller introduced time. This week we focused on the hour (o'clock) and half past the hour. We will move forward as the weeks progress. We like to introduce time and fractions together because of the way we naturally divide up the clock-they do really well with this. Thursday we made our own gigantic clock out in the commons.....your children worked in pairs to display the given time. The hour hand was a yard stick and the minute hand a broom. Take a look at the pictures below:
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| Pizza Fractions |
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| WHAT TIME IS IT? |
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| Josuha and Daniel work together to tell the class the time! |
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| Patrick helps place the numbers on the clocks.... |
In social studies we have been finishing theme notebook pages and practicing their parts for the program. Thank you for all the help you have given them at home....they are shining! ***The theme pages came home yesterday or before. Please praise your children they worked hard!!
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| Steve Jobs hard at work.... |
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| Georgia and Evan practice their parts together! |
In TNT on Wednesday, we practiced our program for the first time with the other class. Next week, we will move over to the MPR so we can practice on stage!
In Hands-On Science, to go along with last week's excitement, we gave the students 1 straw, 1 3x5 index card cut into 3 strips, and five pieces of tape. We predicted what we could make with these materials and boy did we get some good ideas......we ended up making a hoop glider. We discussed Sir Isaac Newton's law of motion/friction and watched a short video about a young boy who loves to make all kinds of gliders. We discussed what made our hoop glider glide and how we might be able to improve or change it! We have many skilled craftsmen on our hands. What a blast!
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| The finished product! THE HOOP GLIDER! |
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| Testing them out.....we had a blast! |
In computer lab the students explored some new apps that have been placed on the iPads for us. They listened to stories with the app, Read Me Stories, and they got to review their math skills with, ClockMaster. We will review ClockMaster again in class next week. They had to fill out a follow up reading sheet to go along with the story they read.
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| Listening to a story being read....so cool! |
sleep, love, much, stay, name, new, paper, rain, door, fun
Challenge words: analog, clock, sweetheart, Kansas
SURPRISE THE TEACHER!
Reminders:
***CONTINUE TO PRACTICE YOUR SPEECH WITH EXPRESSION & VOLUME! Please practice your child's part and if they have an extra part for our program with your child!! We have only five days before our program!!!
*Please continue to bring in shoeboxes for your child for Valentine's Day. It can be plain, decorated or wrapped; it is your choice. It must have a slot on the top, the box should be able to open, the bigger size shoebox the better (it needs to hold 47 valentines). It also needs your child's first & last name on the top of it. Bring them in now ;)
February 14th-*On Valentine's Day you can bring in valentines for both classes (total of 43 kids & 4 teachers) please do not write people's names on them just have your child sign their names (this will make it easier to pass them out to both classes)
*Valentine's Day Party on February 14th from 2:00-3:00pm
Our next theme we will study is AUSTRALIA!!!
Miss Fate & Mrs. Waller are off to do some observations at Pembroke Hill this afternoon in their first grade classrooms. We hope to bring back some new ideas that we can share in our classroom. We cant wait to see you next week! Have a great weekend.
Love, Mrs. Waller and Miss Fate*Hooray for the U.S.A. performance Thursday, February 16th @9:20am in the stage MPR (children dress as their Famous American on this day) Parents are welcome to come back to our room and check out the QR codes on their Famous American Paper Dolls, Puppet Pals, their Citizenship Scrolls, and their Famous American Reports. Children will enjoy a special USA treat provided by the room mothers.
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