We have been learning about laws and government and what it means to be a good citizen.
Tomorrow will be election day across the country. Everyone will be voting like every good citizen should.
The children in Room 137 will be voting for their favorite cookie choice: oreo or chocolate chip.
We will have a ballot box and ballots. The children will have to register to vote too.
We must be good citizens.
The children will also learn about our American symbols with our class focus on the White House. It will be a fun week!
In math, we will graph the cookie choice that won after we have made tally marks.
We are also doing a lot of counting in different ways in math and comparing numbers to see which is greater or less than.
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Monday, November 5, 2012
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Mrs. Richards' Reports
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!
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 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!
Sunday, September 30, 2012
It's October!
Hi Parents and Students in Room 137,
We are entering our first week of October by celebrating Rolin's birthday. Happy Birthday Rolin!
It was great fun at our Mitchell in Motion all school fundraiser. Everyone in our classroom got to participate because they brought in their permission slip signed. The blue shirts are your child's gift from the PTA.
The weather was beautiful, the children had fun at each of the events, and we ended with an all school picture!
Be sure to look for it on our school website in the future!
This is an update on what our school week will look like. The children have learned all five of the components for our Literacy Daily 5, so this week they will be able to choose some of their rotations that they can go to.
In Math, we are working on counting up from a given number, writing numbers, and making jumps on a number line to form addition and subtraction number sentences.
We will be doing a mini-inquiry unit on trees and leaves as living / nonliving things. The leaves sure look beautiful now with all of the fall colors.
A Monthly Behavior Calendar will be in your child's folder for you to sign and to take note of what color your child ended the day on. Please be sure to check the calendar, sign it, and discuss positively!
We're off to a wonderful week!
We are entering our first week of October by celebrating Rolin's birthday. Happy Birthday Rolin!
It was great fun at our Mitchell in Motion all school fundraiser. Everyone in our classroom got to participate because they brought in their permission slip signed. The blue shirts are your child's gift from the PTA.
The weather was beautiful, the children had fun at each of the events, and we ended with an all school picture!
Be sure to look for it on our school website in the future!
This is an update on what our school week will look like. The children have learned all five of the components for our Literacy Daily 5, so this week they will be able to choose some of their rotations that they can go to.
In Math, we are working on counting up from a given number, writing numbers, and making jumps on a number line to form addition and subtraction number sentences.
We will be doing a mini-inquiry unit on trees and leaves as living / nonliving things. The leaves sure look beautiful now with all of the fall colors.
A Monthly Behavior Calendar will be in your child's folder for you to sign and to take note of what color your child ended the day on. Please be sure to check the calendar, sign it, and discuss positively!
We're off to a wonderful week!
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Mrs. Richards' Reports from Room 137
It is September 24 and our final week of this month already. We are onto Fall so make sure that your child is dressed appropriately for the weather! On Friday, we completed our MAPS Test in Math, and the children really worked hard. This week we will do the Reading Test. Please be sure that your child is at school on Friday for the test. Our class has been doing the Daily 5 Literacy and Words Their Way with Miss Reichert's classroom for a couple of weeks already. The children are up to reading 11 minutes for Read to Self. That's amazing! Please encourage nightly reading at home too! This week we will be practicing how to do Word Work as a part of our Daily 5 rotations. Our class will also be teaming up with Miss Reichert's for Math this week! Our math unit is writing numbers and using the number line to add and subtract. We will do an inquiry on Johnny Appleseed and apples.
Friday is our first ever fundraiser called, "Mitchell in Motion". You do not have to send money if you don't want to. You can still participate. We do need your signed permission slip though, so please return that as soon as possible so your child can get in on the fun on Friday!
This is a message from the office. If your child is going to be out from school or leave early, please be sure that you send a note or call the office.
We have an afternoon snack every day. Please send a healthy snack like cheese, crackers, fruit, veggies...
No chips, cookies, or sugary treats!
Friday is our first ever fundraiser called, "Mitchell in Motion". You do not have to send money if you don't want to. You can still participate. We do need your signed permission slip though, so please return that as soon as possible so your child can get in on the fun on Friday!
This is a message from the office. If your child is going to be out from school or leave early, please be sure that you send a note or call the office.
We have an afternoon snack every day. Please send a healthy snack like cheese, crackers, fruit, veggies...
No chips, cookies, or sugary treats!
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