What a wonderful Halloween parade and party! The treats and festivities were great! The children seemed to enjoy the games. Thank you parent helpers! You helped to make everything run so smoothly!
In Reading, we continue to work on building stamina while reading and using our reading strategies during the Daily 5 rotations. Please read nightly at home with your child. In Math, we are counting, adding, and writing numbers. We are looking at the place value of numbers.
Our new Inquiry Unit is on government, its laws, and American symbols. We will choose one of the symbols to focus our study on. We may even have an election and voting!
Please send in some empty paper towel rolls for an activity. Thank You!
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Mrs. Richards' Reports
The students did a great job with their new learning in the computer lab last week on their farm animals. Using pebble.go for their inquiry was great fun! Thank you Miss Nuss for your guidance! They will culminate that activity with labeling their farm animal.
It's kind of scary that Halloween is already upon us! We will be measuring and weighing our classroom pumpkin, scooping out the pulp to feel the slimy stuff, and then estimate and count the seeds. We will end our pumpkin inquiry with carving a face. Students will be filling out a booklet as we go along.
On Wednesday, the children may come dressed in costumes for an outdoor parade. Parents may watch outdoors as well as we parade around the school. It's suppose to be 70 on Wed. Our Halloween celebration will be in the afternoon. Parents that volunteered were contacted about what to send.
No school on Thursday and Friday so enjoy some time with your child. Spend some time relaxing with some good books and do some journal writing about what you did on your days off!
It's kind of scary that Halloween is already upon us! We will be measuring and weighing our classroom pumpkin, scooping out the pulp to feel the slimy stuff, and then estimate and count the seeds. We will end our pumpkin inquiry with carving a face. Students will be filling out a booklet as we go along.
On Wednesday, the children may come dressed in costumes for an outdoor parade. Parents may watch outdoors as well as we parade around the school. It's suppose to be 70 on Wed. Our Halloween celebration will be in the afternoon. Parents that volunteered were contacted about what to send.
No school on Thursday and Friday so enjoy some time with your child. Spend some time relaxing with some good books and do some journal writing about what you did on your days off!
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Mrs. Richards' Reports on Oct. 15, 2012
Last week, we were able to celebrate Fire Prevention Week with a special program with the West Allis Fire Department and Firefighter Will. The children were very engaged in both presentations!
Monday is our long awaited trip to Glacier Rock Farm. We will follow up this week with an inquiry unit on farm animals. The children have already come up with questions about some of the farm animals. They went on the website pebblego.com in the computer lab last Thursday with the assistance of Miss Nuss our Technology Media teacher. The children were introduced to researching some of the farm animals that they were interested in. We will go back to the computer lab this Thursday to log "new learning" about an animal.
We are also going to drink white milk and then turn it into chocolate and strawberry milk as we learn about cows and milk. We will graph which is our favorite milk.
In Math, the students are working on writing addition number sentences and counting by twos, fives, and tens.
The kindergarteners will begin a kindergarten screening called PALS-K this week. It will be a good tool to evaluate student progress.
I want to thank all of the parents who came to conferences this past week. I will be looking forward to seeing a few more of you this week!
Monday is our long awaited trip to Glacier Rock Farm. We will follow up this week with an inquiry unit on farm animals. The children have already come up with questions about some of the farm animals. They went on the website pebblego.com in the computer lab last Thursday with the assistance of Miss Nuss our Technology Media teacher. The children were introduced to researching some of the farm animals that they were interested in. We will go back to the computer lab this Thursday to log "new learning" about an animal.
We are also going to drink white milk and then turn it into chocolate and strawberry milk as we learn about cows and milk. We will graph which is our favorite milk.
In Math, the students are working on writing addition number sentences and counting by twos, fives, and tens.
The kindergarteners will begin a kindergarten screening called PALS-K this week. It will be a good tool to evaluate student progress.
I want to thank all of the parents who came to conferences this past week. I will be looking forward to seeing a few more of you this week!
Sunday, October 7, 2012
Mrs. Richards' Reports October 8, 2012
It's a busy week ahead in Room 137 as we learn about Fire Prevention and safety. We have a special program on Monday morning. Last week, for our Inquiry Unit, we learned about living and nonliving things as we cut pictures from magazines for our class poster. We also sponge painted autumn trees which are living things.
The children enjoyed labeling their trees and writing a caption for them. We talked about labels and captions as being important nonfiction features in nonfiction books. We continue our study of living and nonliving things and nonfiction features as we learn about farm animals as we prepare to go to the farm.
* Please return your farm permission slips and money promptly. They were due on Friday!
We continue to work on building stamina while reading to self and with a buddy with a goal of up to 12 minutes.
In Math, we are working on writing numbers, counting up from a given number, comparing numbers, and writing number sentences. Please practice these concepts at home too!
* There will be NO SPARC on Thursday due to conferences.
* Conferences are this Thursday October 11.... 3:30 to 8:00pm. Please be on time.
* Each conference will be 15 minutes to accommodate each parent. Please have any questions ready!
I look forward to seeing all of you. Your child is welcome to attend conferences!
The children enjoyed labeling their trees and writing a caption for them. We talked about labels and captions as being important nonfiction features in nonfiction books. We continue our study of living and nonliving things and nonfiction features as we learn about farm animals as we prepare to go to the farm.
* Please return your farm permission slips and money promptly. They were due on Friday!
We continue to work on building stamina while reading to self and with a buddy with a goal of up to 12 minutes.
In Math, we are working on writing numbers, counting up from a given number, comparing numbers, and writing number sentences. Please practice these concepts at home too!
* There will be NO SPARC on Thursday due to conferences.
* Conferences are this Thursday October 11.... 3:30 to 8:00pm. Please be on time.
* Each conference will be 15 minutes to accommodate each parent. Please have any questions ready!
I look forward to seeing all of you. Your child is welcome to attend conferences!
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