Friday, February 27

 
Friday, February 27
White Day (No computer class or library.)

*Mr. Meyer's College English class will be visiting us one more time as Reading Buddies from 8:20-8:50 this morning. 

READING AND VOCABULARY
Read Aloud: America the Beautiful: Together We Stand  By: Katharine Lee Bates
GENRE: Poetry/Song
Connect and Teach: Describe Connections
FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Segmenting Phonemes, Substituting Phonemes

Phonics Focus Skill: Long Vowels e and o

Irregular Words: two, who

Fluency: Accuracy and Self-Correction
WRITING AND GRAMMAR

Signal Words

Big Book: In Our Country  By: Susan Canizares

Genre: Informational Text
Social Studies Connection: History and Symbols Using gorgeous photographs, this book highlights the many different landforms and bodies of water across the United States. The simple text ends with a call to care for our country.

 Literacy Jobs 

 Handwriting: C Stroke Upper/Lowercase Letters: Oo

KinderMath: Compare Numbers 11-20 

Today’s lesson will focus on students comparing numbers 11-20 again. However, this time the kids will also be focusing on the numeral itself. We will use the same counting book How Many Snails?  to count sets of objects, and write the matching numeral that goes with each set. For example...How many star fish are there? {17} How many dogs are there? {15} Both numbers will be written on the board. The kids will explain their thinking with question probes like, How do you know? and Can you prove that? 
 Phy Ed: The kids will not have phy ed today so they can attend the Glow Party at that time.

Spanish Class

Today's focus is body parts and a review of the abc's, numbers and colors.

I Love to Read Month Glow Party Reward Day!

Our class WON the ice cream party for the most minutes read in our grade level...5,360!
The ice cream will be served sometime in March...
~Thank you for your participation in such an awesome I Love to Read month! 

~Marie Halloran (substitute paraprofessional/secretary) read to the children yesterday...

~They were also lucky to have Jen Rasset (School Board member) read too!

~Kindergarten has a Dr. Seuss theme planned for all of next week. Your child is bringing home a list of dress-up days to coordinate with Dr. Seuss books that will be featured. Monday's book is The Sleep Book so all the kids can wear their pajamas to school!

Have a super weekend!