Last Week

February 29th - March 4th

Red Week

Red Week was a big part of our week. Each day we celebrated our similarities and our differences. We culminated the week with an assembly by Bizar Entertainment. The assembly featured Dr. Cool. We also attended an Ability Fair. At the fair students got to go to the multi-purpose room to see what all the other grade levels worked on during Red Week.

Dr. Seuss

March 2nd was Read Across America Day in honor of Dr. Seuss' birthday. We did many activities this week with the use of many of Dr. Seuss' books.

I read Fox in Socks. Many students including me wore crazy socks to school. We then wrote our own crazy sock rhymes.

The Cat in the Hat

We had a special visit from The Cat in the Hat (aka Mrs. Sutic). She brought her extensive library of  Dr. Seuss books. She read us a couple of Sr. Seuss books and gave us all a Dr. Seuss pencil. Thank you Cat in the Hat!

Shared Reading of Dr. Seuss Books

We had spread out lots of Dr. Seuss books and did shared readings of all different books. We are working on a Dr. Seuss response packet and will continue to work over the next week or two to complete as many of the Dr. Seuss stories that we can.

Flipped Classroom

We successfully tried our first flipped classroom this week. A flipped classroom is when students are responsible for partaking in some learning of a skill on their own at home. They then come to class the next day with a basic understanding of this skill. We are then able to spend more classroom time on the actual application of the skill. Students at home watched a short video on vowel teams. Then, when they came to class the next day, we did a brief discussion about vowel teams and were able to jump right into an activity. 

Math

Students partnered up to practice adding four.

Star Leader

Another great Star Leader this week. This week's Star did a great job with the Mystery Bag. He really had the class stumped until the last clue. Nice Job! He also showed us some super cool invisible ink as well as doing a great job reading Dr. Seuss' Hop on Pop.

This Week!

March 8th - March 11th

ELA

Grammar

• Review phonics to date 
• Adjectives that compare

Reading

We have spent a lot of time reading fiction stories that had strong leaders in them. We will now shift our focus to non-fiction stories that are also about strong leaders. This week we will begin reading The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind and Ruby Bridges. We will focus on. . .

• Describing the connection between two individuals, events, ideas or pieces of information from a text.
• Identify basic similarities and differences between two texts.
• Work on fluency and expression by recording and listening to ourselves read.

Writing

Students will pay close attention this week to using more adjectives in their writing. Students will also do more self evaluation and peer evaluation. Students will learn how to peer edit. In peer editing students will focus on. . .

• Capitalization
• Punctuation
• Letter reversals
• Neatness

Math

In math this week we will. . .

• Mentally find 10 more and 10 less when given a two digit number.
• Add within a 100 - both two digit and one digit numbers. 
• Understand when adding a two digit number with a one digit number that we add tens and tens and ones and ones.

Science

This week we will continue to investigate, observe and make connections about light.

Specials Schedule

Tuesday - Day 5 - Art and Music

Wednesday - Day 1 - PE and Spanish

Thursday - Day 2 Music and Art

Friday - Day 3 - Pe and Spanish

Have a great week!