Ask your child about  . .
     (week  of  1/22/13)

I would be happy to accommodate your schedule  if you would like to have your child's conference early.  We could meet for about 15-20 minutes before or after school just about any day. This actually helps with a crowded schedule on Feb. 19 and 21. Just let me know. Thank you.

* January reading sheets due next week
* using laptops in the classroom
* activities in music/gym/library
* getting $1 for following the rules
* show and tell every Friday
* assembly Friday morning- 1/25/13
   
 Math
* telling time to the half hour
* 100th day of school activities
* counting tens and ones (place value)
* working on fluency (solving quickly facts within 10)
* math station activities
* counting pennies/nickels/dimes
* odd and even numbers
* making graphs  
* given a two-digit number, find 10 more
    and 10 less
* pattern block activities- use 2D shapes
  rectangles, squares, trapezoids, triangles
*understanding the meaning of the equal sign
  and determining if equations are true or false
  ex.  6=6 (true), 7= 8-1 (true), 5+2=2+5 (true)
  4+1=3+4 (false)

 Social Studies/ Science
* being a bucket filler (character education)
* stories about pioneers
 * Little House on the Prairie characters and
    stories  
* Kansas state symbols
* facts about Kansas
* Kansas will be 152 years old on January 29
* inauguration of President Obama

     
  Reading/Spelling/Writing

    * reading centers daily   
    *    sound of aw as in saw
    *    reading and spelling number words
    *    writing in our journals
    *    emphasizing ideas and conventions (spelling, capitalization,                    ending punctuation) when writing
    *    writing neatly and using the lines
  correctly
    * including information in our written stories
    * practicing sight words
    * describe characters, setting, and major events in a story
    * retell stories including key details
    * reading with a voice that sounds like
       real talking and with grade level fluency
    * stamina reading
    * reading informational text
    * reading words with inflectional endings (s,ed,ing)
    * capitalizing dates and names of people
    * reading and understanding basic contractions ex. did not = didn’t   
    * reading and understanding compound words- ex.  downtown
           


100th day of school and Kansas Day on Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013!