Spiral Notebooks

If you have not sent a spiral notebook for your child's

problem-solving journal, please send it as soon as possible!

Thank you!

Reminders!

Just a few reminders:

 

• Yellow CBA/PBA sheets will be coming home this week. Please look for those in your child's red folder. Sign and return ASAP.

• Sight word-- I am going to start sending home our NEW sight words and index cards with your child each Monday to do for homework.  Please take a moment during the week to make those with your child and review them. You will no longer need to send their sight word baggie on Mondays, since they will be making them at home from now on.

• Valentine's Day Party- Yes, we are having a Valentine's Day Party. There will be a note from our FABULOUS Room Mom, Shea Santone, regarding more information about the party coming home this week. Please look for the note in your child's red folder.

• Valentine's Day cards- We will be passing out Valentine's Day cards to our friends!! YAY!! Your child will need 1 card per student in our class. I will be sending home a class list for reference with names. Please help your child address and sign their Valentine's Day cards to their friends. Please NO goodie bags. :)

Avishi's Trip to India

I wanted to share a few photos of Avishi's trip to India. She traveled with her family over the holiday break to India. Her parents told me they had planned to visit the Taj Mahal, but due to weather, they were not able to do so. Therefore, they visited a tomb that was built by the King for his father and it looks a lot like the Taj Mahal. This is in Delhi.

The other photos are from their farmhouse in their native town. Her family enjoyed their trip and they hope to go back soon.

I want to thank Avishi and her family for sharing! Enjoy her photographs!!!

Addition and Subtraction

In Math, we discussed and practiced addition and subtraction word problems. We made two circle maps of addition and subtraction words.

Also, we played Roll and Count using different word problems. It was fun!!! Get your child to show you how to play at home!

Materials needed: dice, a plus/minus flip tile (you can use a coin with a plus/minus sign taped to it), a 10's frame or any type of mat for your child to place their counters on, and some type of manipulative(beans are great!). Make up fun story problems and have your child solve them!

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We learned some much about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He was a leader and he helped others. Dr. King made important speeches. He also loved and cared for some many. Today, his dream has come true!

Check out our portraits we made of Dr. King.

Magnets!

We learned all about magnets this week!!!

Star of the Week--Lincoln!

We are pleased to announce our friend, Lincoln, is our

Star of the Week  for January 21st-25th.

Check out Lincoln's star poster, circle map,

and the book we created for him!

Here are a few of Lincoln's favorite things:

Color: red

Best Friend: Lathyn

Holiday: Christmas
Movie: Star Wars
Centers: Library Nook
Letter: Ll
Sport: Soccer
Animal: Cheetahs
Shape: Square

Lincoln is a great friend!
He likes to read, write, and
work in math stations.
Lincoln has a great personality too!
He makes us smile!
We have enjoyed getting to know
more about our special friend.

College is so important!!!

This weekend, I traveled to my alma mater--UT-Tyler!

 It was so cool to see my name on the Alumni Wall!

Writing and Car Crashes!

During Writer's Workshop, we discussed the importance of using spaces between our words when we write. We talked about how we do NOT want our words to have a "car crash." A "car crash" is when all of our words are close together, making it difficult to read. We want our writing partners to be able to read our stories with ease.

On Friday, we sorted different writing pieces into two groups--readable and unreadable.

We made CHALK!!!

We made our very own chalk this week!!! Our study of rocks lead us to do an experiment and create chalk. The best part---it works!!! We went outside to put it to the test!

Visualizing When We Read!

We have been working on our visualizing skills during Reader's Workshop. We read some of our favorite winter stories and practiced visualizing what we read. Making images or a picture in our brain helps us to understand and to build our comprehension skills. Check out our visualizations!!!

Making 3-D shapes using Geoblocks

We used Geoblocks during our math lesson to create different

3-D shapes. We had to stack, rearrange, or use other shapes to create a NEW 

3-D shape with the blocks.

Check out some of our creations:

We stacked 4 small cubes together to make a large cube.

Grace has stacked her cubes to make a larger cube as well.

We can use 2 triangles to make a rectangular prism.
Also, we can use 2 cubes to make a rectangular prism.

Star of the Week--Emily!

We are pleased to announce our friend, Emily, is our

Star of the Week  for January 14th-18th.

Check out Emily's star poster, circle map,

and the book we created for her!

Here are a few of Emily's favorite things:

Color: yellow

Best Friend: Lincoln
Restaurant: Papa Murphy's
Toy: Belle doll

Letter: Ee
Number:100
Holiday: Christmas
Shape: heart
Animal: unicorn

 Emily is a sweetheart!
She loves to dance, sing,
and help others.
Emily is a great writer too!
We are so lucky to have a special
friend, like Emily, in our class!

Word Families

This week, we learned our first word family: _at. 

We learned how to blend and spell words like cat, mat, fat, and splat.

Check out our photos! We came up with a list of _at words. 

In addition, we made a word slider to help us make new _at words. 

Then, we listed our words on a bubble map.

We are ROCKin'!!!

In Science, we are learning all about ROCKS!!! Yesterday, we explored different types of rocks and discussed their properties. We used a hand lens to observe these rock properties.