Weekly Learnings January 27-31

This Friday is the deadline to order a yearbook!

Friday your child brought home two pieces of red paper in their blue folder. One is their spelling words and reading log for the week and the other explains an upcoming project, Our Living Museum. Your child chose an American whose actions have changed our world. The name of who they will be for the Living Museum is written on the top of their paper. If you need another copy of the directions or if you don't know who your child chose, let me know.

I will be gone Tuesday through Friday this week. Mrs. Schmidt and I are going to Orlando for a Educational Technology Conference. This conference is simply amazing, we will be collaborating with educators from all over the world learning what they are doing with the technology in their classrooms!

With me being gone most of the week, this week is going to be a lot of review for our class.
Reading: We will be reading several books that have great characters and encouraging stories. After learning about these characters, they will work with a partner to discuss what these characters and stories have in common.
Phonics: We will be focusing on the ch and wh digraphs.
Writing: Review parts of a sentence. We will also work on what nouns, verbs, and adjectives are.
Math: We will be reviewing everything we have learned so far.

Resource:
Monday - None
Tuesday- Art
Wednesday- Music
Thursday- Computer
Friday- P.E.

What will we grow?

We have started new observations in class today... we have several things in water and we plan to note our observations, using our Science Journals, over the next several weeks to see how things change!

Garlic (yes, we smell it all day) ;/

Celery

Sweet potatoes

Potatoes

Taking turns; touching, smelling, looking, making predictions, and observations!

Day 1 Sweet potatoes

Day 1 Garlic

A few students chose to observe more than one!

Example of a Science Journal

Parker & Thomas, proud of their observations!

Weekly Learnings for January 21-24

Please have your child reading each night and help them take the AR quizzes. Our goal for January is 10 points, which is around 20 books read. If you need any help with AR, please let me know! Most of our students are already close to our goal. They are working toward a Reading Celebration on February 4th if our entire class meets our goal. Remember also that they can use the book to support their choices when taking an AR quiz. I want them to learn how to go back to the text to support their thinking.

Reader's Workshop - Making Meaningful connections and thinking deeper about the characters in the books we love. I want them to focus on a main character: What words would they use to describe the character and what's the evidence in the text that supports their thinking?
Phonics - th & sh digraphs. We will be learning how to read and spell words that begin and end with th & sh.
Math - We will learn how to use a hundred's chart to find a specific number and then to find the numbers that are +1 -1 & +10 -10. Follow this link to watch a you tube video that explains this strategy. Students will then be able to apply this strategy to addition and subtraction equations.
Writing - We will continue to work on our reports on sharks. They have been collecting a lot of facts on sharks and this week we will begin to organize our new learnings about sharks in a way we can share them!
Social Studies - We will learn about Martin Luther King Jr. and how he believed in LOVE and being kind!
Science - This week we will be growing a few things...and learning about the parts of a plant.

Resource Schedule:
Tuesday - Music
Wednesday - Computer
Thursday - PE
Friday - Library

Ice On the Playground!

Today was very exciting with ice on the playground! The kids were ecstatic to play with it and see how long they could hold it! Some even wanted to bring it inside to take home! :)

Let it Snow!

My family and I went to Eureka, Illinois to visit my husband's parents and a lot of our family who live there. The highest temp was 23 degrees and the lowest was -15 degrees. We had a great time, and here are a few photos if our trip! 

I hope you all had a fantastic break from school, I can't wait to see how much you have all grown! See you Tuesday!

Wren and I went ice fishing with Uncle Curt! We caught 1 baby, and decided to put her back so she can get bigger!

Wren & Ryker all bundled! It was 15 degrees...bbrrrrrr!

Wren being pulled by her cousin Carrie on the lake, the ice was 10 inches thick!