Language Arts Block
Guided with Mrs. Waller this week the kids have been practicing their speeches for our program and with Miss Fate this week the kids are continuing their research reports. Towards the end of the week both teachers helped the children work on copying over their final research reports. We will finish them up and share these in Social Studies next week with our paper dolls. They will come home in the memory books at the end of the year.
Independently we have been reviewing long vowels & i_e & e_e patterns this week in phonics. We have been writing in our Hooray for the USA journals. We have learned about many landmarks and symbols that will go in these journals during our unit and end up in the memory books.
Some of our centers this week included: listening to The Magic School Bus Statue of Liberty, putting together huge floor USA & President puzzles, Pancake Flip with our spelling words, writing our spelling words in a snail spiral, working with the silent e slides, using the iPads with the Rocket Math app (money), Starfall.com on the computer, framing a word with the a_e pattern and writing it in a sentence, using President cards to gather info. on them, writing the states down, writing the states on maps, started our math number scrolls, we worked in our phonics books, and we practiced framing a word with VCV pattern.
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| Practicing our speeches! |
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| writing #'s 1-200 on our #scrolls to help us with our # sense |
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| This game is so much fun! I am learning about money too! |
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| Dwight D. Eisenhower |
We have been continuing to learn about the coins & dollars. We are reviewing the penny, nickel, dime, quarter, half dollars & dollars. We have watched a money video that showed us how to count money & make change. We have continued to play coin exchange games with the kids. We are differentiating in math & the games for each student. The children also played Race to Draw Creatures, Race to draw a $1.00 & Fill the Bank.
Social Studies
Mrs. Waller continued talking about the 13 colonies and the children are working on a 13 colony map that will come home soon. This week with Miss Fate we focused on learning all about The Statue of Liberty, The Great Seal, The Capitol Dome, The Liberty Bell, The Lincoln Memorial, The White House, The Washington Monument & Mount Rushmore.
TNT (TRY NEW THINGS)
We had our special visitor Senator Roy Blunt come and visit us. Eva did a great job introducing him. We learned so many new things and it was such a special treat!!! We loved practicing and singing our USA songs for him.
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| Singing our USA songs for Senator Blunt |
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| Roy & Eva |
We had a special cultural arts program. The Herpetologist, David Nieves came to St. Paul's & brought snakes, lizards, and a turtle. What a special treat the kids loved it!
We played on a bunch of different apps that you can get at home.
Educational Apps: Sticker Sudoku, FLOW, Futaba, Friends of Ten, Quick Images, Rocket Math, Stack the States, Stars, Math Doodles, Rocket Spell, and Cimo.
Using the Kindergarten's new playground with artificial grass! It was a blast rolling down the hill & playing on it!
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| Ready....set....roll!!! |
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| This is awesome! |
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| Rolling down the hill together... |
Monday, January 21st-- NO SCHOOL MLK DAY!
Wednesday, January 23rd-- PAPER DOLLS ARE DUE! (you can bring them in Tuesday if you want)
Wednesday, January 23rd-- CHILDREN SHOULD HAVE SPEECHES & EXTRA PARTS MEMORIZED! (for our practice with the other class)
Friday, January 25th-- 50th Anniversary All School Chapel, Parade & Flag raising ceremony!!! Regular Spelling Test
Spelling Words: phone, grove, mope, robe, stone, cute, tube, rule, flute, huge
Challenge Words: statue, speech, nation, history
Surprise:YOUR FAMOUS AMERICAN!! (first & last name)
Enjoy your long weekend! Melissa & Sara
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