News
- Student Council is hosting a bake sale at recess on Tuesday and Wednesday. All items will be $1 and we appreciate your help by not sending in more than $3 each day.
- Valentine's Day name lists were sent home last week. Please remember if you are planning on making Valentine's Day cards with your child that you will need to include one for everyone in the class. We will have some time on Wednesday morning (we have music and gym in the afternoon) to pass out the cards.
Feb. 7
We had a very productive morning working on our animation project. Students worked really hard on drawing out their animals or "assets" to use during our next PAW time on February 18th. We have been focusing on how to draw realistic animals that really show how they have adapted to living in a cold environment.
Curriculum Update
Math
Grade 1: Students have been focusing on developing their conceptual understanding of adding and joining things together. In the next week or two we will be moving towards using tools like 100s charts to help us with adding larger numbers. We will also be working on the benchmarks 5 or 10 to help make adding numbers in our head more efficient.
Grade 2: Students have been working on developing a conceptual understanding of equality and inequality using addition and subtraction equations. Students have been using balances and blocks to physically show how balance out equations. In the next week or two we will be developing our algebraic thinking by using what we know about equality to discover missing numbers in number sentences.
Reading
Students have been worked in leveled groups on a variety of skills such as decomposing compound words, letter and vowel sounds, and comprehension strategies.
Writing
We have continued to use story workshop as our springboard to enjoying writing. We have worked on making sure we are thinking about setting and characterization. As students progress in their skills we are individually working on self-editing and elaborating to make our work more enjoyable for our readers.
Science
We have been working on the 'Hot and Cold' unit for science. Ask your child about our blubber demonstration.
Social Studies
We have been working recognizing rural, urban, and suburban communities.
