This Week...

I don't know about you all, but I think this cold weather needs to go away!  I missed my students yesterday and it sounds like it is supposed to be frigid next week too.  I am ready for the polar vortex to go away and nice normal winter weather to come visit.  

 

We have been very busy this week!  In math we continued to work on place value and we did some subtraction review!  We did a subtraction scoot in the hallway.  Students had to find subtraction facts hidden around the school and write them on their scoot sheet. We also played Garbage.  Garbage is a fun game that we play to work on place value and determining the bigger number.

 

 



 

In Fundations we have been busy working on the following glued/welded sounds:

-ank, -ink, -onk, and -unk.  Below is a list of words we came up with for each of those sounds. 

 

**Please remember to send your child to school dressed for the weather, even though we do not wait outside when it is below 5 degrees, the kids still get very cold on the bus and walking in from being dropped off.  Another thing to remember is even when the temperature is below 5 in the morning, it may warm up to 5 by the time recess comes.  If you need help with getting winter gear, please let me know, my mom loves to go garage sailing and I have a ton of winter clothes in my basement looking for a good home!



PEF Grant, SMARTboard Fun, & Welded Sounds

Our class was very lucky!  We received a grant from the Pecatonica Education Foundation for some math games for our SMARTboard.  We have been having so much fun with them the past few days!

 

Today we played Bubble Pop! Students worked on addition or subtraction fluency.  They had so much fun and enjoyed cheering each other on!

 

In Fundations we worked on finding words with our welded sounds in them.  Here is the list we came up with:

 

Next week in Fundations we will work on the welded sounds:  ank, ink, onk, and unk.

 

REMINDER!!!  11:05 Dismissal Tomorrow and No School on Monday!

 

Red Ribbon Week...TUESDAY FUN!

Today all of the students got Smarties at lunch and we ate them at snack time. 

 

 

We talked a little bit more about making healthy choices for our bodies.  The students did a writing activity today about alternatives to doing drugs.  Here is what they came up with...

Say NO to drugs, say YES to...

playing basketball with my friends. (Troy)

making goals in soccer and having very much fun. (Ady)

having the best teacher ever. I love her very much. (Brooklyn)

fixing my step brother's car with his bro's helping us. (Anthony)

watching the Bears play football and playing with my brother outside. (Maren)

cleaning my room and having fun with my dad and my mom. (Michelle)

playing soccer. (Macey)

baking cookies with my mom. (Rhyann)

playing basketball. (Cameron)

having lots of fun at gymnastics. (Kianna)

having fun at basketball and soccer. (Joshua)

having fun at Girl Scouts and playing tag with Abby. (Kayleigh)

having fun at Cub Scouts and playing tag. (Owen)

watching the football game. (Rayna)

going to girl scouts.  (Abby)

 

Tomorrow for Red Ribbon Week we will "Put a Cap on Drugs" and students should wear a hat to school.

 

We also worked hard practicing writing words with bonus letters today and writing sentences with words that contain bonus letters.

 

Yesterday we made spiders during fundations.  Each leg has a word that has a bonus letter s on it!