A Peek at the Week

Posted: March 11, 2015

A PEEK AT OUR WEEK! March 9-13 March is NUTRITION MONTH! Be a healthy eater. Zoo Phonics! While meeting all the animals, they’ve been teaching us to read. Students are learning to listen and record sounds in words as well as working with Partners (consonant blends), e helper at the end of words and chunks. We are working on “nonsense words”, ow and ou sound=band aid words. Value Lessons- continue to stick to our value lessons from all letters to be great citizens! March 9- Monday- Welcome Back! We are now “Fish Friends!  Bonnie Wright dropped by to bring our salmon eggs today. How many? The kids are ready to take on the responsibility.                   March 10 - Tuesday– Hot Lunch day- subs                                 March 11- Wednesday- Tomorrow is the BIG CRUNCH- we will assemble all students and crunch a healthy apple before recess! YUM   March 12- Thursday– * Guidance with Mrs. Sturgeon                                 Big Crunch Day!!!                         Poetry Anthology goes home March 13 - Friday – are you superstitious? That’s ok, Good Luck Day is right around the corner!                                             - PIZZA Friday!  seal and label money please                                   What we’re up to:  Language Arts- Daily 5 and Writing         Students are building reading stamina and are learning strategies to help them to be better readers and writers.                 Writing recipe- Think of a topic, tell your story, draw a picture and write something for each word you say. (hopefully some matching letters and words we’ve been working on!), labelling pictures. Math- Counting up to the hundredth day.          Number Sense: students learn more about numbers and how they relate to one another- more/fewer, numbers before/after others, count by touch, identify number placement on a number line etc. 5 and 10 frames.         Our Math Unit- Exploring Numbers- Outcomes to Master… N1-Say the number sequence by 1’s starting anywhere from 1-10 N2-Recognize at a glance and name familiar arrangements of 1-5 objects or dots N3- Relate a numeral to its respective quantity N4-Represent and describe numbers 2-10 concretely and pictorially N5-Compare quantities, 1-10, using 1 to 1 correspondence. (More, less, difference between)