Good Afternoon,
Today was quite a packed day. The students started the day by working on their sight words. We then moved into Morning Meeting and shared the parent responses from their Weekly News Journals. Math was up next. The first graders worked on games that asked them to focus on complements of 10 or 20. The second graders looked at numbers in story problems. The class then moved into spelling. One group worked on recognizing initial and endings sounds as well as medial short vowel sounds. Another group worked on the short e, er, ir, and ur, and the -tion ending. The third group worked on y making the long e sound at the end of the word, er, ur, and ir sounds, and the chunk -ture. A final student was working on vocabulary words. In science, the students watched a video that featured a car with square wheels. They watched as it sped down the road. They were then asked the question; Do certain types of shapes roll easier than others? The students then started conducting an experiment that allowed them to test ideas that would help them answer the question. We will finish this experiment tomorrow. During the afternoon, the students had reading groups and their Daily 5 activities. The students ended the day with PE.
Notes:
*I will be leaving at 1:00 on Monday. I have a district math meeting.
*Please make sure that your child is arriving at school by 7:40. It is important for them to be arriving on time and to have the same advantage as every other student. As I have stated before, students start in with their sight words right at 7:40. Being 5 minutes late each day puts them at a 25 minute disadvantage to every other child.
I hope you have a great week.
Peace,
Tommy
