♥On Thursday, February 14th, we will be celebrating Valentine’s Day at school. I have planned learning activities and some fun surprises for that day, including a Valentines card exchange. Please have your child bring in a decorated bag or box, in which to collect their cards. Please make sure your child’s name is clearly written on their decorated box or bag. We currently have 21 students in our room. The class list was sent home. Cards may be made at home or store bought. Please contact me if you have any questions or concerns! ♥
Congrats to Chloe – her writing piece was chosen to represent Rocky Mount 1st graders to complete against all other first grade representatives from all Cobb County schools.
Congrats to Owen for turning is his Six Flags Reading log
Writing: This week, students started writing opinions on things they like for example: fruit or vegetables for the year, favorite thing to do for recess, favorite story or favorite movie. We are spending time practicing capital letters, punctuation, and applying all the spelling rules we know. The writing format for the body of their compositions has remained the same; however, in the conclusion, our young writers have been imploring the reader to take action and do something. Closing their writing pieces with this persuasive tone has proven to provide a pretty powerful ‘punch’ at the end.
Reading: In Reading, we compared The Three Little Pigs to the The Three Shapely Pigs. We also read the True Story Of The Three Little Pigs. Students analyzed similarities and differences between the stories. In addition to participating in small reading groups, targeting certain skills, such as reading comprehension, determining the main topic, author’s intent, making inferences, predictions and analyzing character traits. In phonics we worked on long i digraphs with the following spelling patterns: igh, ie, i, and y. We worked on reading and spelling words with these spelling patterns.
Math: Students worked with pennies and dimes, practiced with 10 more/10 less/1 more/1 less. Students also worked on word problems and how to express how they got their answers in writing. We will continue to practice with double digit addition and subtraction. Next week, we will practice telling time.
Social Studies: We finished our unit on Lewis and Clark and their trip to the Pacific Ocean. We started learning about Theodore Roosevelt. We found out how the teddy bear got his name.
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Upcoming:
Tuesday, February 12th – Progress Reports Come Home
Monday – Friday, February 18 – 22 – Winter Break
Thursday – February 28th – Six Flags Reading Logs are due
“A dream doesn’t become reality through magic: it takes sweat, determination and hard work.”
Colin Powell