Week 23

We had a great time celebrating the 100th day of school on Friday.  Thanks to everyone who helped us make a 100s snack by sending your items.  Check out our100s shirts.  

We will be sending information about our Valentine's party this week.  Look for a class list in the homework folder to fill out your Valentines.

Looking to the week ahead, we will continue our work for the park ranger.  We have completed our winter books and are ready to mail them.  We will continue reading and writing about the winter season.  We will continue learning about addition.  We will be working on syllables and rhymes.  Our sight words will be:  want, lots, of.  We will have special visitors on Thursday from USC Upstate teaching us about germs and hand washing. We are looking forward to our field trip on Friday to see the circus!! 

How can you help at home?  Practice writing simple sentences using our sight words.  Put our sight words in ABC order.  Practice addition problems (equalling less than 10) using items such as beans or cereal to solve the problem.  Be sure your child points to each word they say while reading so they do not omit or add in extra words.

Park Ranger needs help!

A park ranger came to our school today.  He needs our help!  For the next few weeks we will research different plants and animals to find out how they survive the winter.  We have to report our findings to the ranger!  

Spanish club visits

We are learning about Christmas traditions around the world this week.  Today we learned about Christmas in Mexico.  The BSMS Spanish club came and baked a Tres Leche cake for us.  It has to sit overnight and we get to ice and enjoy tomorrow!  

Week 18

There will not be an assessment this week.  We are reviewing this week.  Remember school dismisses at 11 on Friday.  Enjoy your time at home with your family!  Have a very Merry Christmas!

Week 17

Upcoming events:

Dec. 7:  Doughnuts with dad at 7 am

Dec. 12:  School spirit day

Dec. 14: Christmas party money due $3.00

Dec. 15:  PTA 6:30

Dec. 18:  Christmas party. School dismisses at 11.

What are we learning?

Sight words:  was, funny, all

Writing:  I can record facts I have learned.

Reading:  I can sequence events in a story and compare multiple stories.

Math:  I can represent teen numbers.

Social studies:  I know that holiday traditions look different at various countries around the world.  

How can I help at home?

Practice sight words daily.  Read 100 Book Challenge.

Review anything missed on the assessment and interim. 

Write teen numbers and practice saying their name to identify each number 0-20.

Practice writing the sounds you hear in simple words such as: hat, mop, big, etc.

Week 15

We will not be having an assessment or learning new words this week.  We will be reviewing previous skills.  We will continue learning about Thanksgiving through reading and writing.  We will be working on teen numbers throughout December. 
Remember Tuesday is the last day this week.  Enjoy the holidays with your family!  I am thankful for the opportunity to spend this year learning alongside of your children.  They are a blessing to us both!

Week 14

Wow, it has been a busy week preparing for today's Thanksgiving meal.  It was a huge success with several families having an opportunity to join us.  Thank you for all of the supplies you provided for our costumes!  Just a few reminders:  Friday is school spirit day.  Next week is a two day week.  We will not have new words or an assessment next week!  This week we will be assessing the words: and, if, big, little.  We are continuing to focus on teen numbers.  We are learning all about Thanksgiving and why we celebrate it.  We are focusing on sounding out words to write sentences about Thanksgiving.  We will be sending interims home Monday the 23rd.