Weekly Update

News to Know

• Tomorrow is the 100th day of school! Please send in items you might have signed up for our special snack and five canned food items for our 100 item donation. It should be a fun day!
• Re-enrollment forms are due February 18th to the main office staff with all requested paperwork.
• Tuesday, February 1st there is a PTA sponsored dine-out @ 5 Seasons brewery. Please come out to support the school, check out some of our own Chinese dancers, and taste some yummy brew made by our IB Parent Unit of Inquiry group.
• Congrats to our classroom Spelling Bee winners Kara & Jayla! Good luck on Tuesday in the school Bee!
• Tomorrow I will check reading logs in agendas for Book It! Please be sure that January's reading has been recorded.

Academic Update

• Last week, we completed a Language Arts cumulative test. It was sent home in the clear folders on Friday. Please review it with your little darling, sign it, and return it if you have not done so already.
• Last week we dove into the water portion of weather. We learned the definition of precipitation as well as examples. We also discussed the water cycle and the three states of matter. There were a lot of new words and vocabulary. Also, it was great to do a couple of experiments on our own as well as with the traveling field trip from High Touch, High Tech: Weather or Not?! In math, we worked a lot with place value, comparisons, digits, and had explorations. Did you know that we should always work our ones place first? Reading groups got back on track focusing on fluency, expression, and comprehension. We are still working on reviewing and editing our writing to be sure to include a title, topic sentence, supporting sentences, and a conclusion. IT WAS A BUSY WEEK!!
• This week will discuss weather prediction, meteorology, and weather tools. We will focus on being reflective, fair, and compassionate. In reading groups, we will focus on the main idea, so please discuss that when reading at home. In math, we will continue to add and compare two digit numbers and number stories.

100th Day!-UPDATED

The 100th day of school is Tuesday, February 1st! I have many ideas for that day, but want the girls to narrow them and choose their favorites. I am sure that they will want to have the 100 piece snack mix so I have created a writeboard of items we will need. Please send them in on Monday so they can be prepared for Tuesday's celebration.

Also, I am thinking of a donation of 100 items. I want the girls to have some ownership and decisions, but please be prepared. (guidance will probably be towards 100 canned goods) Also, is there someone that would be willing to deliver these to a food bank? The girls agreed to the 100 canned food donation. Tonight they are supposed to figure out how many can they will each need to bring for 23 people to have 100 cans.

Here are some 100th day activity websites:

Starfall Interactive 100th Day ebook
Count Along to 100
Splat Square
Give the Dog a Bone-my personal favorite!

AR testing

AR testing can now be done at any time. The weekend restrictions have been disabled! Have fun and happy reading!

Just Announced:IWIA Spelling Bee!

Today a short list of possible words will be sent home to study for the Spelling Bee. We will hold a short Bee in the classroom on Monday. The top two spellers from our class will compete in a K-3 Bee on Tuesday. So study those spelling strategies and good luck!

Weekly Update for the New Year

We are back on track for the New Year, despite the crazy, icy start to our schedule! Here are new links, info, and updates.

Info to Know

• We can now take AR tests at home! Click here to go to the website to test at home. Remind our little darlings to do their best and take testing seriously. If you need a user name and password reminder, shoot me an email.


• Please be sure to review the Unit 4 math tests that are in your little ones clear folder with them. Sign and return the test on Monday.


• Thank you to all that returned the intention form for the Rising First Grade chats! These will happen on Thursday, January 27 @ 4pm for the telephone conference and @ 4:30 for the on-campus conference.


• Our class will be partnering with Mrs. McConnell's class to start a book swapping club. Look for a flyer early next week!


• Please go to the writeboard via the webpage to sign up Mystery Readers! The girls really love to have the clues and a person come to read to them and so far we only have one person signed up!

Academic Update

• This week we have finished our math assessment for unit 4. Check out our tests and review concepts which we might have struggled! We worked on creating paragraphs/stories with a topic, supporting details, and a conclusion. Creating the conclusion is the hardest for us! Also we reestablished our daily routine, especially center time where we demonstrated that we can balance doing our best on assignments with time management. We also discussed various weather words, rainbows, and MLK.


• Next week: review of place value (from this week), greater than, less than or equal to, explorations, weight, precipitation, the water cycle, creating cohesive stories and paragraphs, proofreading our writing, STAR testing

On a personal note, I shared a secret with the girls this week....please ask them to share it with you!