Friday, September 14, 2018

Week 6




Here and there:
·       All of our room 19 families are signed up for conferences, thank you all for organizing with other time slots with multiple siblings as well as using sign up genius! I love that you are all using technology to best communicate as we work together to educate your child.  Conferences are just around the corner, I am very excited to see you all!

·       Next week we will introduce and work on the final 10 phonograms. At the end of next week all 70 will have been introduced and practiced. We will start to recognize all of our phonograms in words we read and write. The students who are showing great effort reading and verbalizing the phonograms daily with the class are the ones who are getting the most out of our Spalding time.

·       Thank you all for the support at home with signing off and assisting with homework. I do ask that you carefully read before you sign. I am seeing parents sign off without checking to make sure it is all done completely and accurately. 

·       For the month of September we will be focusing on EFFORT. I am able to observe effort as students show neat and accurate handwriting, make thoughtful connections, and acts in ways that are helpful to our room 19 culture.  When we put all of our energy into our obligations our time together will be extremely valuable. I cannot wait to award another room 19 classmate who continually shows effort.

A look at next week…
Spalding
That last phonograms will be introduced and reviewed, how exciting!  I encourage you to look over the review work from the week that is usually stapled to the graded spelling test. If the students crossed a phonogram out and rewrote it this means they need more practice with that specific one. If you need phonogram cards or would like to order a set for you child use the link below. The students will be using them through 6th grade, it would be a worthwhile investment.

Reading
As a class we will sort fiction and non-fiction examples as we have been exposed to both.  As we progress through the week we will be reading various Aesop’s fables and identify fable elements such as moral, problem, solution, and plot. How fun these stories are!

Math
I was very impressed with the odd and even and greater than/ less than assessment. This shows me that our number sense is strong and we can recognize patterns and place value.  The students loved our math skill(s) this past week.  Next week we are going to touch base on skip counting again, up to 200 and at any point in our number line. The week will start skip counting using number charts and transition to memorization.  In first grade they are expected to skip count by 2s, 5s, and 10s.

Science
We read some very interesting facts about the skeletal system, they enjoyed the movements and readings to help make connections.  Our skeletal system will continue with a fun project as we make cotton swab skeletons to show the parts of the human body.

History
The last and final monument will be Mount Rushmore.  We will be sorting facts and opinions about this national symbol. This will wrap up our American symbols unit.

Have a wonderful weekend, stay cool!
Ms. Reger


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