Mrs. Richards Reports from Room 137

Some Important Highlights and reminders for this week

***  Tuesday and Thursday ...  MAPS TESTING in the morning!  

                  Get a good nights sleep and eat breakfast!

***  Thursday Feb. 6 ACE Family Concert Night 6-7:00 pm in the gym

  I really hope you bring your family to hear members of the Milwaukee Symphony play for US!

            

         6 Flags Great America reading forms are due. You may log your RazKids reading too!

***  Mon. Feb. 10  Bring a shoe box or an empty tissue box to make a valentine mailbox at school.

*** NO HOME AND BACK BAGS this week!  HOMEWORK is your 100 DAY project and writing out Valentines!

***  Please go to Signupgenius to chaperone our class at the Pettit on February 12.

Mrs. Richards' Reports from Room 137

My students led the Fish meeting on Friday and did a great job. They received many compliments from other teachers. We also received a Golden Lunch award which means we have 10 Golden awards and can pick a fun  classroom activity. My students want to go sledding so I will be sending home a permission slip to go sledding the next time that we have snow and, of course, when it's a bit warmer. We have sleds at school and a wonderful hill behind school. I did this with my class last year, and we had a blast!  Parents are welcome to come too. I'll let you know when it happens.

Here are some of the topics we are learning.
Literacy: All guided reading groups are working on sounding out words that they don't know when reading, to look for chunks of letters, and to look for little words inside big words.
Math:  We are learning to add by jumping forward on the number line.
Inquiry: We are learning about nutrition and the healthy plate, which has replaced the Food Pyramid.

Upcoming Important Events: February 6 ACE Family Concert at 6:00 pm. will be held in our gym. It will be about an hour long. Please bring the entire family to be a part of the audience for this wonderful presentation. The kindergarteners are a part of this program this year and will continue to be a part of it for the next 4 years as the program moves forward to include other grades until the whole school is  a part of this program. Hope to see all of you at the concert!

6 Flags Great America Read to Suceed ends Thursday Feb. 6th.. Please return your form by that date to insure getting your ticket.

There has been so many fun and exciting things happening each week at school. Here are some highlights with pictures.

Mrs. Reis, Ladybug Girl read us her book on Character Day.

Book Characters in Room 137

We are the Blue Team showing Respect, Friendship, and Excellence!

Ian read a book about "Dream Catchers" and helped small groups make one.

Mrs. Richards' Reports from Room 137

Welcome back from the deep freeze! It will be great to get out of the house and be back at school.
Please be sure to send warm clothing each day!

Here is what we're doing this week:

Literacy: Learn the diagraph: wh....white, where, which
Math: trading ones for tens, adding, and writing numbers
ACE Program:  read the Nutcracker, listen to the music on our ACE cd
Writing: Begin Informational Writing by talking about what it means to be an expert

Please sign up for conferences on line or on the paper copy coming home on Wed.

My blog will be transferring over to the website soon so be prepared for a new look soon!

Mrs. Richards' Reports from Room 137

Thank you parents for your support for our Christmas concert which was such a wonderful success. The children worked hard learning all of their songs and then performing well!

We are counting down to Christmas in many ways.  We will finish up our study of how different cultures celebrate Christmas by learning about the African celebration of Kwanzaa which is on Dec. 26th. We are connecting this inquiry with learning about needs and wants. Mrs. Blank will be working with our class and teaching us how to use Scribble Press on our iPads. The children will create a few pages about needs and wants.

In Math, we will practice making tens and ones using Educreations on our iPads. In our math journals, the students are reading math problems and looking for clue words like in all, altogether, and how many left to write number sentences for addition and subtraction.

Mrs. Richards' Reports from Room 137

We have a busy week ahead with two concerts this week. Tuesday afternoon at 1:30, we will be a part of the audience as the band, orchestra, strings, and chorus perform for us. On Thursday we get to be the performers at 12:45 for the dress rehearsal and then 6:00 for family and friends. Please have your child at school by 5:30 in Room 137. I will watch the children in the classroom in between performances.

Last week we continued our inquiry about how cultures celebrate the holidays and finished up with Hanukkah by playing the dreidel game. The children made wooden shoes for St. Nick's like the children in Holland. This week we learn about Germany and Mexico and how they celebrate.

We had our last ACE presentation on what it means to be a "composer".  Students enjoyed the presentation.

****  Please be sure that your child has a hat and mittens every day. Boots and snow pants are required if your child is going to play in the snow. *****

**** The PTA  Elf Workshop is this Friday from 5:30-8:30.  I will be helping out at the 5:30 slot.
Hope to see you there!****

Here are some recent pictures from Thankful For Books Day.

Mr. Dan Bailey, Evan's Grandpa

Mr. Glomski,  Brady's Dad

Class Picture with our PJ's

Amaya reading with her buddy, Cora

Micala reading with a buddy

Austin and Ian reading on their Ipads

Evan and Hope are reading a Collins Cat Book.

                                                                        ACE Presenters are teaching us about what a  "composer"does.

Mrs. Richards' Reports from Room 137

Welcome back from Thanksgiving break! Hope you had a great time with family and friends!

There are a lot of fun things planned for this week. We will finish off our inquiry on the Pilgrims and Native Americans and move onto how other cultures/countries celebrate the holidays. We will also talk about the needs/wants of the pilgrims and compare them with ours. We have our last ACE presentation on Thursday about Modern Day Music. In Math, we will be working on counting up from a number, counting tens and ones, and adding ones to a ten.

Here are some pictures from last week!

This is Venn Diagram comparing things from the time of the pilgrims and now.

A Venn Diagram showing who liked biscuits, salted beef, and homemade butter.

We are thankful for Story's Grandpa reading to us!

Mrs. Richards' Reports from Room 137

I want to begin by wishing all of my classroom families a wonderful Thanksgiving! This is always such a special time of the year.  Enjoy these days off with your family and friends!

On Monday, we will continue our Inquiry Unit on the Pilgrims, the Native Americans, and the First Thanksgiving. We will be trying some food that the Pilgrims ate: dried beef ( jerky), biscuits, and pomegranate.  We will make our own butter to put on our biscuit by shaking cream in a jar . We will compare a pilgrim child with a child of today on a chart called a Venn diagram.

On Tuesday, we will spend our day in pajamas enjoying "BOOKS". Guest readers, Buddy reading with Ms. Alt's class, reading books on our ipads, and watching a book on a dvd are all the fun activities planned for the day with the focus on READING. Mr. Hill will be reading his favorite book to the whole school in the MPR at 3:00.

Last week, we had our third ACE presentation on the Strings Family of instruments. The children have been working in an Inquiry booklet on the Pilgrims and Native Americans. Here are some pictures from these activities.

ACE Presentation on the Strings Family

Members of the Milwaukee Symphony

Preston sharing his writing and picture

Hope sharing

Addy looking over her work

Story is proud of her work.

Colorful Picture made by Ian

Filip is carefully reading his writing.