Friday, March 1

   
Friday, March 1

~We're watching Nim's Island beginning at 9:00 this morning. The kids will have a special beach treat to have with it! (A mixture of Goldfish, gummy fish, and pretzels.)

The kids play BINGO from 1-2 today. We are grateful that the 5th graders will be helping us! 

Music The kids will not go to music since it's during BINGO.
Computer Class is still scheduled as planned.

~Have your child wear red on Monday for Cat in the Hat Day!

~Thank you to Mrs. Skay (2nd grade teacher) for reading to us yesterday...

~Thank you for such an awesome I Love to Read month! 

Enjoy the weekend!    

Thursday, February 29

Thursday, February 29
*We get an extra day to have fun!

Story: Leopold's Long Awaited Leap Year Birthday

Leap Day Math
~Leap Year Count & Graph
~Make #29 different ways
~How far can a plastic frog hop?
Getting Active on Leap Day
~Hop in place for 29 seconds.
~Where do 29 steps take me?
~Extra Recess!
 Phy Ed 
Leap Day Crafts
~Use 29 scraps of paper to make something.

~Make a necklace with 29 beads.

~Frog directed drawing.
Leap Day Extras...
~Leap Year head band
~Leap Year book
~February 29th memory page
~Frog gummy treat

   

~We enjoyed having Mrs. Siebert (Title 1 Teacher) read to us yesterday...

~It's Pajama Day tomorrow!

Wednesday, February 28

Wednesday, February 28

 

 Phonemic Awareness 

Blend: let, rest, left, sled

 Segment: get, pets, best, step
 Visual Drill
      Graphemes: u, o, i, a, m, s (/s/, /z/), t, p, f, n, d, c, g, b, k, h, r, l, w, j, y, x, qu, v, z
Auditory Drill
 Phonemes: u, o, i, a, k, r, l, w, j, y, x, qu, v, z 

Blending Drill 

must to rust to runt to bunt to bun to bug to lug to plug to plum to glum to  

gum to hum to him to his to has to hat to hot 

 New Concept 

           Short E practice in words with consonant clusters.

Today's featured Dr. Seuss book is Horton Hears a Who.

 Handwriting: Number 6

Literacy Jobs   

 

Library Day!

KinderMath: Combining Sets to 5 

We continue to review combos to 5. The children will be playing Spill the Cup. The cup contains 5 red/yellow counters (as pictured below). They will record the results after each 'spill' to see how many landed on red and yellow to make 5. These results will be put into a 'Make 5 Book".

               Music Today   

Time for Kids: Let's Go Birding

 
~Have your child wear as much green as possible for Leap Day tomorrow!
~Thank you to Maleah for reading to us yesterday... 

Tuesday, February 27

 
Tuesday, February 27

Word Work with Manipulative Letters 
stud to stub to tub to tubs to rubs to ribs to rib to rob to rot to rut to rust to dust

to gust to gut to rut to rug to lug to slug to plug

 Irregular Words: look, book, are, was
    Read: Look at the fast slug.
                         Was there rust on the lamp?
                             The drum set has a lot of dust.
Spell: Look at the cubs.
                 The bug did not jump.
                      He was on a run at dusk.

Today's featured Dr. Seuss book is The Cat in the Hat Comes Back.

 Literacy Jobs 

KinderMath: Combining Sets to 5

We begin a new unit today, Addition to 10. For these beginning lessons, the kids will be working on combining sets, but each day we will just work to a specific total. Today and tomorrow the kids will work on combinations to 5. The kids will NOT be expected or asked to use symbols (=, +) to represent their thinking. We will use hula hoops & string to create a part-part-whole template. (See the image below.) The kids will stand in the hula hoops to find out how many in all.
 4 monkeys were on the bed (part) and 1 monkey on the floor (part). How many monkeys in all? 5 (whole)

 

Phy Ed 

In this lesson, students discover that there are pushes and pulls involved in any kind of work, including the work done by machines. In the activity, Be a Digging Machine, students pretend to use shovels and excavators to dig a hole for a swimming pool. 

   

~We enjoyed having Mrs. Pesch (Freya's Grandma) read to us yesterday...

~Read the last chapter and return the choice board sheet tomorrow! We want 100% to be returned to win the pizza party!

Monday, February 26

Monday, February 26
*All this week a Dr. Seuss book will be featured in honor of his birthday coming on March 2. Today the kids will hear The Cat in the Hat.

 

 Phonemic Awareness 

Blend: runs, slug, must, stun 

 Segment: cuts, hugs, jump, dust
 Visual Drill
      Graphemes: o, i, a, m, s (/s/, /z/), t, p, f, n, d, c, g, b, k, h, r, l, w, j, y, x, qu, v, z
Auditory Drill
 Phonemes: o, i, a, k, r, l, w, j, y, x, qu, v, z 

Blending Drill 

pot to spot to slot to slob to sob to cob to cot to cost to lost to last to list to 

 mist to mint to lint to lit to lot to loft to soft

 New Concept 

           Short U practice in words with consonant clusters.

 Handwriting: Number 5

Literacy Jobs   

 KinderMath: Combining Sets up to 20

We will again be focusing on combining sets but this time to 20. Again, this is not a "true" addition lesson, but rather getting the kids to become confident in combining two sets of objects for a total or "in all". It's important to teach them the reason behind counting on. For example 7 bears and 8 apples. How many in all? *Count on from 7...*7*, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15.

               Music Today   

 
~Thank you to Mrs. Harlan for reading to us on Friday... 
~The kids really like going to the Beach Room...what a fun place to read!

~ Read chapter 15 in Nim's Island tonight and initial the choice board. It is due back on Wednesday!