PBS: We've had an excellent week! We're still earning lots of "Soaring With Pride" stickers - I guess I'll need to find another way to display them since we've filled up my poster! Please speak with your child about respectful cafeteria behavior - they seem to be having difficulty with this.
Language Arts: We're still reviewing Reading Strategies. We've covered making connections, visualizing, asking questions, fixing-up reading, and inferring. Next week we will be working on inferring and synthesizing. Inferring is when a reader takes information that is read, adds what he/she already knows, and comes up with a prediction. I used this to explain it: The road is wet. Cars have their lights on and wipers going. People are carrying umbrellas. What can you infer???? It's raining! We read The Stranger by Chris Allsburg to practice this skill.
Math: The class has been learning some new games from Ms. Wilde using money, estimation, and digits to get to 100. Next week we're using those skills to figure out word problems. We've also been looking at what math facts we know quickly and which ones we really need to practice.
Please check over your child's math homework when it's given.
Social Studies: Ms. Wilde has been talking about Maryland and the states that border it. They've used maps to find major cities and bodies of water. Soon each student will be producing a brochure showing geographic concepts.
Cursive: I try to do at least 4 new letters a week. So far we've done i, t, and u. I can't get over how neatly these kids write!!
Writing: IDEAS is still our focus. Coming up with a big idea and "funneling" it down to an idea that is easy to write about. For example: Dogs - puppies - golden retriever puppies - my puppy - taking care of my golden retriever puppy.
Water Bottles: Because of our proximity to a water fountain, I previously haven't allowed students to bring in water bottles. BUT... to prevent students catching any germs, I've told them they can bring in a labeled bottle of water and use it when they need to.
Book Orders: The first book order of the year has gone home. I love doing these because I earn points that I can use to buy new books for our classroom library! Thanks in advance if you order some!
THANKS to all who check take home folders and agendas daily. Remember, you need to initial the agenda for your child after you've checked everything!
Have a wonderful weekend - hopefully the sun will shine on all of us!
Mrs. Humerick
