Week 22

- February 17, 2018

MESSAGE FROM MS.STAROSTECKI

1C has been getting more and more practice using Chromebooks to enhance their learning. They are logging on independently and practicing their skills in various subject areas on multiple websites.

Language Arts Websites:

Teach Your Monster to Read - To log in, students just type in their first name
ABCya - Letters

Math Websites:

Mathletics - Log in information (username and password) are on a green strip of paper glued to the front page of their agendas.

REMINDERS

NO SCHOOL (FAMILY DAY) on February 19th.

PINK SHIRT DAY on February 28th.

EARLY DISMISSAL on March 7th.

FAMILY DANCE on March 22nd.

NO SCHOOL (PD DAY) on March 23rd.

SPRING BREAK from March 26 to March 30th.

NO SCHOOL (EASTER MONDAY) on April 2nd.

LANGUAGE ARTS

LISTENING GAMES I read the book, Jennifer Jones Won't Leave Me Alone by Freida Wishinsky to 1C this week. Our phonological awareness activities were focused around the book this week. This sweet “love” story is about a boy who is admired and adored by a fellow classmate who has a crush on him and tells him and shows him in every way, every day how much she loves him. He can’t stand it and wishes for her to move, until one day he finds out that Jennifer’s mom got transferred and now she is moving. “Absence makes the heart grow fonder” is the moral of this story....after she’s gone, he wants her back.

WRITING

1C has worked extremely hard on two writing assignments this week, "Snowmen at Night" and "Over and Under the Snow"! I am so happy to see them writing with such creative ideas and thoughts.

WORDS THEIR WAY Throughout the week, the students reviewed the diagraphs "th" and "wh" with words such as thorn, think, wheel, whip.

RAINBOW WORDS Next week, 1C will be learning five new Blue Rainbow Words: look, make, mom, now. I encourage for you to practice Rainbow Words with your child to increase their exposure and improve their word recognition. I will be informally assessing each student at the end of each week to see if they are able to read and recognize their Rainbow Words.

DAILY 5 The Grade 1's are working towards staying focused for 15 minutes during each of their centers during Daily 5. During Daily 5, they complete all of their centers including Read to Self, Read to Someone, Listening to Reading and Word Work. Keep up the hard work Grade 1!
While they reading the students are practicing the Skippy Frog, Flip the Dolphin, Chunky Monkey, Stretchy Snake, Eagle Eye, Lips the Fish strategy.

Skippy Frog who skips the word. Reads to the end of the sentence. Hops back and re- reads the sentence.

Flip the Dolphin tries the short vowel. If it doesn't sound right, flip the sound to the long vowel and try it again.

Chunky Monkey looks for hunks and chunks they know inside a word.

Stretchy Snake reminds the students to "S-T-R-E-T-C-H" it out and to say each sound slowly then say it fast.

Eagle Eye serves as a reminder to look at the pictures for clues when reading a book.

Lips the Fish looks at the beginning and ending sound of a word.

HOME READING The books will be exchanged every Friday. You may also read books from home or the library, just make sure you log it! Our classroom goal is to read (or have a book read to us) at least 7 books per week.

LIBRARY Please bring back your child's library book each Monday so they may exchange it for a new one.

MATH

This week, The students learned how to correctly read and write the numerals 0 to 20 independently. The students are also learning to skip count by 5s to 100.

On Friday, the students celebrated the 100th Day of School with fun-filled activities.

Our 100th Day T-Shirt

SOCIAL STUDIES

Our social studies focus this week was all about the Winter Olympics. The students learned about the Olympic symbol, the mascot, the various sports and watched some live coverage. They had a blast cheering Team Canada on. They will be keeping track of Canada's total number of medals next week.