Week 36

- June 01, 2018

MESSAGE FROM MS.STAROSTECKI

This will be the last week for R.E.D. Folders. Please return the folder along with their home reading books on Friday, June 8th.

Also, please return your child's Rainbow Word Rings by Friday, June 8th. The Grade One teachers will be re-using them next year. If you would like your child to practice any of the Rainbow Words during the summer, I have all of the words listed on the blog. Just click on the tab "Rainbow Words".

1C Free Swim Days are June 25 to June 27th from 10:20 am to 11:00am. The lifeguards would like a ratio of 1:3 for students 6 and under and 1:6 for the rest. So I will be needing about five parent volunteers to be in the water with our class. If we do not have enough volunteers I will have to cancel the Swim Day. Please let me know if you are able to help out!

With the warmer weather, I strongly urge parents to send their kids to school with a hat and a water bottle. Also, with those nasty mosquitos buzzing around you can send some bug spray with your child. We want our kiddos to be sun safe and bug bite free!

REMINDERS

EARLY DISMISSAL on June 6th.

BGRS TRACK MEET on June 8th. Track students will need to bring a backpack that has a bagged lunch, water bottle, and hat. This is an all day event.

DEVON DAYS PARADE on June 9th.

BGRS TRACK MEET RAIN OUT DAY on June 12th.

DQ TREAT DAY on June 15th.

VOLUNTEER APPRECIATION on June 19th.

FUN DAY on June 25th.

FREE SWIM DAYS from June 25th to June 27th. Your child will need to bring a towel and bathing suit for those three days.

SUMMER SEASONAL WALK on June 26th from 1pm-3pm.

LAST DAY OF SCHOOL is June 27th.

LANGUAGE ARTS

LISTENING GAMES I read the book, Commotion in the Ocean to 1C this week. Our phonological awareness activities were focused around the book this week. “There’s a curious commotion, at the bottom of the ocean; I think we ought to go and take a look. You’ll find every sort of creature, that lives beneath the sea; swimming through the pages of this book.” The sequel to the best-selling “Rumble in the Jungle”, this delightful new collection of poems includes fun rhymes about the creatures that live in and around the ocean. Children will delight in the cheery poems and colorful illustrations about whales, walruses, penguins, polar bears, stingrays and sharks.

WORDS THEIR WAY Throughout the week, the students reviewed the reviewed the -ab, -ob, -ad, -ed word families with words such as cat, mat, rot, not, kit, fit.

WRITING The students worked on planning the problem and solution for their fairy tale. Next week, 1C will begin writing their fairy tale draft.

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 Tryin' Lion, Skippy Frog, Flip the Dolphin, Chunky Monkey, Stretchy Snake, Eagle Eye, Lips the Fish strategy.

Tryin' Lion Try it again! Re-read the sentence. Try a word that looks and sounds right.
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.

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

MATH

This week, 1C finished up their Subtraction unit. They can solve subtraction word problems by comparing to find how many more/fewer. The students learned how to decompose (break
apart) numbers to subtract within 10. With the use of various strategies, 1C can determine if an
equation is equal. Lastly, they reviewed the inverse relationships of subtraction and addition.