Week 20

Odds and Ends:
Hi all! It has been a busy few weeks getting back into routine and finishing up the report cards. Those got sent home today in your kiddo's kanga pouch. Please sign the envelope and send it back to the school, you can enclose any comments within the envelope for me. If you would like to sit down and discuss anything after taking a look at the report card let me know and we can plan time! I am asking if you have any sort of recyclables at home smaller than a cereal box, paper towel rolls, toilet paper rolls, those odd craft items you aren't using to please send them to school for our Building Things unit. I sent home an order form for Pink Shirt day. For those of you that do not know Feb 28th we ask students and staff to wear a pink shirt to symbolize that we are against bullying.

Language Arts:
We have finished looking at the long A, and long E vowels. This has been tricky for the class, they have done a wonderful job at reading these words, but writing them independently has been tricky. We took down our social bulletin board and have now put up word families posters to try to get the children independently trying to identify some of those sounds. We have been also working hard at creating sentences independently. This has been a challenge but with the fun topics we have been writing about they are showing improvement in the independence of this.

Math:
We finished up our patterns unit and have moved on to numbers to 100. We have played a roll and color and a bump it game with a buddy. We just started our math centers yesterday and the students were very excited to get to work on these!

Science and Social: 
We completed the winter unit and have just started looking into the Building Things unit. We talked about the different tools that builders would use and what kind of tools we can use here in Grade One. We also talked about how to be safe when building. We combined this building introduction with social studies as we are building our own community. We had a vote and decided to name it Dinoville. Yesterday we each built our own home, today we came up with the ten rules of Dinoville as a class, I apologize now if they try to tell you that sleeping does not happen on the weekends 😄. We have put two big tables in the back of our classroom where we will be building this.

Gym: 
Last week in gym I started a dancing unit with the kids, they will be continuing on with this with Mrs. Derechey this week.