Language
- Short Vowels: Friends sorted words with short a, short i, short e - it's tough work but SO important for our good reading brains! (Hat, man, cap // hip, kit, bin // hen, bet, Ted)
- Beginning, Middle and End: Friends listened to stories and identified the book's beginning, the middle and its end. They even began to incorporate these same plot points in their own Daily 5 Work on Writing, and in their free choice at the Book Making Shop!
- Lots of -op! SKers have been working with the -op word family, sorting, matching and creating -op words of there own. Enjoy being detectives for -op words this weekend with your SK friend ("STOP sign! Lollipop! Mop!)
Math
- Centers: SKers said goodbye to their old math centers and welcomed brand new ones! Games to play in small groups for good practice include: additional symbol "Penguin Put Together", subtraction "Snowman Steal", work with recognizing, sequencing and filling in missing numbers up to 100, work with double digits (Is it 13? Or 31? How do you know?), writing original +/- number stories with illustrations, and sorting tricky shapes by common attribute (numbre of sides, color, size, etc.)
- Shape collage: We reviewed our shapes (simple shapes like circles, squares, ovals, rectangles, triangles, and newer shapes like parallelograms, and trapezoids!) and collaged them into exceptional portraits of our hero, Martin Luther King Jr!
Social Studies
- MLK Jr: We continued our study of Martin Luther King Jr.'s big ideas, reading good books and talking about our own thoughts and feelings. We decided that we LOVE our big colorful room! We love having friends who are different (in lots of ways!) from us - it makes life so much more interesting, and exciting. We created a collage (each of us our own) with different shapes to illustrate a portrait of MLK Jr. We also mixed colors together to demonstrate our
Reminders
- Show and Share Night - Thursday January 31st is Show and Share Night at USM! Please join us 5:30-7:00 for a peek inside our first grade classrooms, see what first grade friends are doing, and meet the friendly teachers! (If you placed a sandwich order, thank you for turning in your checks this week, and not Thursday evening!)
- Ice Skating - Our next lesson on Tuesday, 1/29 (We'll send another reminder e-mail the night before!) Don't forget a drop off at the rink, and to bring friends with their hats, mittens, coats, snow pants and skates! We are so thankful for you help.
- Snow pants/boots - We'll send them home on Fridays for weekend play (and a good wash!) each week now. If you need them home midweek or on a nightly basis, please talk with your SKer about this to make a plan together.
Announcements
- Mrs. Linzmeier: We were so excited to have our old friend back last week (and the Thurs/Fri before.) Sadly, with the flu season in full effect, and her current treatment plan, her doctor strongly advised her to resume her leave until treatments have ended. We appreciate your support, and reassure you that Mrs. Duffey and Ms. Schwartz will continue to team together, putting your children and their learning first each day in SK. (Again, in the unusual case that either Mrs. Duffey or Ms. Schwartz needs to be absent from school, we will have Mrs. Peterson or Mr. Sweet join us for the day. Both are very familiar faces to our children as each has substituted in our room many times this year; both teachers have taught SK classrooms as well, and are familiar with the curriculum.)
- Second Saturdays: Our grade level is thrilled to be collecting play dough and cookie cutters to contribute to the fourth grade service project. If you are feeling generous, please send play dough, cookie cutters, or both with you SKer next week. (There is a note in your SKer's Friday Folder with more details!) The mothers and children in need will absolutely appreciate the chance to play and create together, thanks to your kind donations.
We heard so much about Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks! Another great week in SK!
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