Peek At The Week

We had a great short week! Please remember that reptile reports are due on Monday 1/25! Make sure your child is writing fun and interesting facts about their reptile. Also, they should be drawing a habitat for their reptile picture!

Our field trip is next Thursday 1/28! We are excited to see Miss Nelson is Missing live on stage!

We are wrapping up reptiles and will have a test on Wednesday 1/27.  A study guide is going home today to help them prepare.

Peek At The Week

Hi Everyone! January is flying by! 2016 has been great so far!

Here are some things we did this week!

In Math

• Practiced regrouping for subtraction using cubes and paper and pencil for two-digit numbers and one digit numbers
• Practiced regrouping for subtraction using cubes and paper and pencil for two-digit numbers and two digit numbers
• Learned a new poem to help us- This will help at home too!

In Fundations:

• Began our Unit on r controlled syllables for ar, or
• Practiced trick words
• Learned the words harm and forbid
• Took our i-ready test
• Learned about two sounds for or- or, ore

In my Reading groups we are working on text features of non-fiction books. We will read some non fiction next week.

In Science: 

• Continued learning about reptiles by watching All About Reptiles DVD and writing facts
• Assigned them a special report due on January 25th! They got to choose which reptile they wanted.
• Read about the differences between reptiles and amphibians and used a Venn Diagram
• Read about different turtles using a poem
• Read the book One Tiny Turtle about sea turtles and looked at pics of Mrs. Farrand from a turtle sanctuary in the Cayman Islands!
• We have a cool snapping turtle Miles too!

In Writing:

• Learned about diamante poems using winter and summer as a topic
• Reviewed nouns, ing verbs, and adjectives
• Miss Martin came in to continue talking about bullying too

Have a nice long weekend! 

-Mrs. Farrand