Week 21

Lots of updates this week!

·       This month in room 19 we are working hard to show organization. I believe this skill can be used at home and at school as we put things back where they belong. I have been making an effort to model and take the time to be organized with school work with the class.  It makes the day all the more productive when we are ready to learn with the needed materials in just a few split seconds.  I challenge the students to be organized this month!

·       As a Franklin community we are working on practicing honest actions. We read a story about honesty and made an anchor chart with the actions of honesty we promise to show.  Some ideas the students came up with are… being reliable, taking responsibility for our actions, playing fairly, and asking before we borrow. I look forward to seeing honesty at school

·       We successfully reached our 1,000 point goal in nearly 9 days. Impressive! We are now working as a community to earn 5,000 Class Dojo points! Once we reach this goal we will be doing something extra special. Check Dojo often to see how your child is contributing to our goal.

·       BOX TOPS! Send them in, we can add them to our bucket.

·       Our class party is next month, I will be sending out a link in a few weeks for donations and volunteers. Stay posted!

·       Save the Dates:

§  Monday, January 21^st- NO SCHOOL

§  Saturday, January 26^th- Franklin Festival

§  Tuesday, January 29^th- Progress Reports Home

§  Friday, February 8^th- Grandparents Luncheon at 11:10

§  Thursday, February 17^th- Poem Day!

§  Friday, February 15^th- Class Party

§  Friday, February 15^th- Early Release at 1:25

§  Monday, February 18^th- NO SCHOOL

§  February 25^th- March 1^st- Parent Teacher Conferences

A look at next week…

Spalding

The words are becoming complex and lengthy. I encourage all students to write neatly and practice word lists twice.  Meaning, complete all 10 words, fold so they cannot be seen, and complete again. We tell our pencils what to write in class, the same can be done at home. Spelling words will be introduced as usual Monday- Wednesday with a review day on Thursday.  I would like to review the spelling expectations with you. They will write the nightly words two times each without markings going down the green homework sheet. Please be sure it is folded and they are writing along the start of the line and the fold. This allows for neat and organized habits.  Thursday is the only night when all words are written once without markings. Our weekly phonograms consist of ones that are in need of review as well as ones found in our spelling words. Letter formations and neatness count!

Reading

The joy of reading continues as we start a new story, The Horse in Harry’s Room. Along with reading this classic story we will be working on making predictions, sequencing, and vocabulary. The students will continue to read to the class.  As students read we are working on reading accurately, at a just right pace, as well as reading with expression.

Math

A favorite unit will start on Monday, the unit of graphing! Over the next couple of weeks we will analyze and create bar and pictographs.

Science

We will attend scribe school as we write using hieroglyphs. This will be fun!

Have a great weekend,

Ms. Reger