Reminders:

Please remember towels in towel bags and bags of snow gear.
The kids have been doing well bringing in snow gear and keep track of it…for the most part 🙂 We continue to figure out the best places for everything. Thank you for your help! Also, please double check your child’s snow bag daily to make sure everything is dry!
Because of the snow day February 9 is now scheduled to be our 100 day! This is a day we celebrate zero the hero and do many activities centered around the number 100! Your child is free to dress as a superhero that day but please do not feel obligated. It can be a simple as a homemade cape or mask! If we have any snow days that day will change so I will continue to keep you updated!
No school mid winter break February 12-15
We will be celebrating Valentines Day in our classroom on February 16 during the afternoon. We have to celebrate a bit late as Valentines falls during our midwinter break! Students may pass out pre-packaged candy with their Valentines-treats must be store bought, pre-packaged…nothing home baked. I hope this information helps!

What we are learning:

This week in Bible we began our unit on the miracles of Jesus. We started with his very first miracle-turning water into wine. We read from our Bibles and then talked about what a miracle is and that only God can do miracles. Mrs. Arnold tried herself to pour water and see if it would turn to wine and it didn’t work. We ended our time by singing Our God is a Great Big God.

In phonics this week we started with the -at family and added different sounds to -at to see what we could make. We also continued our study of long vowels and listened for long vowels we heard and wrote them in shaving cream! We also walked around school to see how many vowels we could find! Some of us found over 100!

In math this week we continued looking for groups of 10 in teen numbers. We drew pictures on our white board and circled the groups of 10 we made!

In writing this week we continued our pattern books. We are working hard at listening for the sounds in words as we say them slowly!

In Daily 5 I was able to meet with each group once and we made another pattern book during the writing portion of our Daily 5!

In science we went sliding and learned some more about push and pull as we went up and down. We figured that Mrs. Arnold went pretty far because she is pretty big;) It was definitely the highlight of our week!

Reminders:

Please remember towels in towel bags and bags of snow gear.
The kids have been doing well bringing in snow gear and keep track of it…for the most part 🙂 We continue to figure out the best places for everything. Thank you for your help! Also, please double check your child’s snow bag daily to make sure everything is dry!
January 22: No PM busing
Report cards will be sent home in sealed envelopes on Tuesday January 26.
January 28: All School 1/2 day- No PM busing
As of now February 8 is scheduled to be our 100 day! This is a day we celebrate zero the hero and do many activities centered around the number 100! Your child is free to dress as a superhero that day but please do not feel obligated. It can be a simple as a homemade cape or mask! If we have any snow days that day will change so I will continue to keep you updated!
No school mid winter break February 12-15
We will be celebrating Valentines Day in our classroom on February 16 during the afternoon. We have to celebrate a bit late as Valentines falls during our midwinter break! Students may pass out pre-packaged candy with their Valentines-treats must be store bought, pre-packaged…nothing home baked. I hope this information helps!
We celebrated with Wacky Wednesday or crazy clothes day this week as we met our behavioral incentive!

What we are learning:

This week in Bible we continued our study of Jesus’ ministry here on earth. We studied Zacchaeus, Nicodemus and Mary and Martha. We learned what it means to have new life in Jesus and through the story of Mary and Martha we learned that we should never be to busy for Jesus. He is what matters most. We practiced this concept by cleaning and then taking time to stop and listen to Mrs. Arnold. It was our Mary and Martha game.

In writing this week we continued to make our pattern books. We worked on books with the pattern “I see.” We chose to write about things we see at school, outside, at home or during the summer.

During Daily 5 this week everyone was able to meet with me in their group. During our writing portion we added pattern books, allowing for everyone to make another pattern book during our week. We continue to look at spacing and punctuation as we read as well as finding our word wall words.

We added this to the word wall. We now have a, at, and, am, go, here, I, is, look, like, me, see, the, this, up and we.

This week in phonics we worked on vowels and listening for their long sound. We talked about how the long sound usually sounds just like their name. We did a sorting activity and also looked for how many vowels we had in our names.

In math this week we continued our study of teen numbers. We used mats and counters to make rows of 10 and add some “extra” on and then figured out which teen number we made. We continue to work on counting everyday during our morning meeting. This week we walked to see if we could make it to the teacher’s lounge while we were counting all the way to 89! We made it and their was a treat waiting for us when we got there!

Reminders:

Please remember towels in towel bags and bags of snow gear.
The kids have been doing well bringing in snow gear and keep track of it…for the most part 🙂 We continue to figure out the best places for everything. Thank you for your help!
Monday, January 18 NO school, Teacher PD
The next phase for transitional students begins Wednesday, January 20. All students will stay full days on Wednesdays. If you would like to add any other afternoons, please email me.
January 22: No PM busing
January 28: All School 1/2 day- No PM bussing
As of now February 8 is scheduled to be our 100 day! This is a day we celebrate zero the hero and do many activities centered around the number 100! Your child is free to dress as a superhero that day but please do not feel obligated. It can be a simple as a homemade cape or mask! If we have any snow days that day will change so I will continue to keep you updated!
We will be celebrating Valentines Day in our classroom on February 16 during the afternoon. We have to celebrate a bit late as Valentines falls during our midwinter break! Students may pass out pre-packaged candy with their Valentines-treats must be store bought, pre-packaged…nothing home baked. I hope this information helps!

What we are learning:

In writing we learned about pattern books. These books have a sentence on each page that begins the same way (a pattern). Last week we read the book “I See January” and traced the words to understand the pattern book. This week we wrote another book “I Like” on our very own. I love starting with pattern books because the first few words in the sentence (the pattern) are words from the word wall. These are words most students can read and write. The kids think of the last word for the sentence and work very hard sounding it out and writing the letters they hear. They are working so hard. I am so proud of them!

We added am to the word wall. We now have a, at, and, am, go, here, I, is, look, like, me, see, the, up and we.

This week in Daily 5 we did our normal routine as well as practicing our stamina again as we are still getting into the swing of things after Christmas break!

In math this week we learned about partners of numbers. We realized we had six girls in our class and we looked at how we could divide them up to make partners for the number six. We also did a book with unifix cubes to practice making partners of six. We have started everyday this week reviewing our teen numbers.

In Bible this week we continued our study of Jesus’ ministry on earth, learning about how Jesus wants children to come to him and that we are all, even old Mrs. Arnold, children of Jesus! We also learned our new Bible verse, Matthew 19:14, “Jesus said, ‘Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”

This week we continued our study of God’s world as we investigated motion. We sketched out plans and used materials in our classroom to build ramps and see what happened when we put cars down them at different angles. We learned that part of being a scientist is trying many things to come up with the best plan!

Reminders:

Please send in clean towels (in towel bag) on Monday
Please send in all book bags in on Monday
Mondays we have gym. Please dress your child so he/she is ready to move 🙂
Please send in library books by Tuesday morning
The next phase for transitional students begins Wednesday, January 20. All students will stay full days on Wednesdays. If you would like to add any other afternoons, please email me.
No school on January 18-Professional Development Day

What we are learning:

This week in Bible we started learning about Jesus’ life and ministry while He was here on earth. We studied both his baptism and the calling of His 12 disciples. We read from our Bibles and talked about what it means and what it looks like to be a disciple of Jesus today!

In writing this week we started pattern books. We traced one and then worked on putting sentences together during Daily 5. Next week we will begin to write our very own pattern books!

During Daily 5 this week I was able to meet with each group once, while the other groups worked on their writing, reading or listened to stories on Raz-kids. Please look for your child to come home with their leveled library books every Friday! We also read the book Corduroy and reviewed the three ways to read a story: read the words, read the pictures or retell the story.

We practiced our word wall words this week by using a fun decoding method! We wrote in write crayon and then colored over it with our markers!

In math this week we worked on finding groups of 10 in teen numbers. We used both our unifix cubes to make sticks of 10 and we each got a new box of crayons and we put 10 in a rubber band and then counted on from there. After we finished we used our crayons that were in the rubber band to make some fun designs!

Finally, in science this week we learned about what makes an object move. We learned about push and pull and then we went on the playground to see what ways we use push and pull while we play!

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