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!

 EARLY DISMISSAL AT 1:20 ON WEDNESDAY,  JAN. 16, 2013.
 NO SCHOOL ON MONDAY,  JAN.  21,  2013



Ask your  child   about  . . .
     (week of 1/7/13)

*WELCOME to our new student, MALIK!
*report cards were sent  home on
  Wednesday, January 9.
*DECEMBER MONTHLY READING SHEETS are due
*January monthly reading sheets were sent home
  on Monday
*activities in music, gym and library
*ask your child how many days they got $1
  for following the rules this week
using the Promethean Board
show and tell on Friday

         Math
*counting tens and ones  (ex.  3 tens and 7ones  =37)
*fact families  2 + 5 = 7    5 + 2 = 7 
7 - 2 = 5    7 - 5 = 2
*math stations
*counting pennies, nickels and dimes*using a number line to add or subtract
*identifying and continuing a pattern unit
*reading a calendar- know days of the week and months of the year in correct order
*odd and even numbers
*identifying numbers to 100
*problem solving -when to add or subtract
*tangrams and math tiles
*tally marks
*geoboards
*knowing 1 more, 1 less, 10 more, and 10 less
  of a given number
   
           
 Time to get those math flashcards (addition/subtraction) out that were sent home at our first conference! Practice for memorization and speed.

           Reading/Spelling/Writing

*sight word practice
*reading centers daily (reading group, computers, listening center, and learning game center)
*Vowel Town (u in duck, o as in frog, au as in saucer, aw as in saw, o_e as in nose, oo as in good, oo as in too)
*spelling words with ou and ow
*using quotation marks in our writing and finding them in books
*DECEMBER MONTHLY READING SHEETS are due
*January monthly reading sheets were sent home on Monday.
*colored reading folders are sent home on Mondays and Thursdays, please continue to make the effort to get them returned to keep on this schedule
*spelling test on Friday- new list sent home each Friday
retelling a story by thinking about what
happened in the beginning, middle and ending
*stamina reading - We are able to read independently for over 20 minutes!
*reading with fluency- smooth sounding and with expression

           Social Studies/Science

*being a bucket filler  (character education)
*Martin Luther King, Jr,
*Kansas symbols- sunflower, meadowlark, cottonwood tree, tiger barred   salamander,  buffalo, box turtle, etc.