SPELLING JAN. 23-26

This week our list will contain some review words and some other ones we have used during our writing time.  Please help your child by going to spellingcity.com and playing the games to help solidify the words.  username:  scarey1  password:  mollyd

one, two, three, four, take, taking, of, friend, from, this, by, try, could


Bonus:  twelve, second

SPELLING THIS WEEK! Jan. 17-19

We will have fewer words this week due to the shortened week.  Our test will be on Thursday.

SPELLINGCITY.COM  username: scarey1  password:  mollyd

bake, baking, friend, from, what, could, box, me  BONUS:  number, eleven

LOOKING AHEAD TO MORE DATES TO SAVE

On TUESDAY,  MARCH 20, we will be having a SCIENCE FAIRE at school.  Our class will be doing a project as a class and I would like to encourage any of my students to do a project at home to present at the faire.  Some of you may wish to begin the project now.  Our class will be doing a "Simple Machine" project and all of the projects will need to have the following components:


1.  Begin with a question
2.  Observe and gain information
3.  Make predictions
4.  Do an experiment
5.  Tell and write someone what you found out.


We will have an opportunity to present the projects in class for another REPORT credit.  Please try this and have a blast learning!

SAVE THE DATES!!

We will be having a Math For Families Afternoon on Thursday, February 2 from 3:45 - 5:00 pm.  Please plan on attending in order to become more informed about Singapore Math as well as engage in activities with your child.  We'll have two activity sessions so you can attend multiple classrooms with your children.  3:45 - 4:15 will be an informational session provided by the teachers of the Elementary School and then the breakout activity times are 4:20 - 4:40 and 4:45 - 5:00.  I hope all of you are able to attend and that we can answer any questions you may have.

Three-Day School Week

We will have only three days of school together this week.  Please have your child practice reading his/her take home book every night and reture it on Thursday for a book for the weekend.  Another option is to do the raz-kids.com reading on the computer.  Take a peek and have fun! 

EXCITING NEW WEBSITE

I have purchased a wonderful subscription to a website that helps your child with reading.  It is called
RAZ-KIDS.COM and it reaches all of the kids at ALL reading levels.  The kids are able to listen to a story, then read the story and lastly, take a quiz.  He/She will obtain points every time they accomplish each task.  They will be able to decorate a space ship with the points earned and gain reading comprehension and fluency along the way.  It's a win, win situation for all of us!
To LOGIN, type in the username:  careyj.  
THE KIDS LOVE THIS SITE!  Have fun!

Math Focus

This week we will counting within 20 by making 10 first. 


In our Singapore math curriculum, we spend a lot of time thinking in ways that will make math easier as the kids grow.  One of these methods we are working on is grouping things together in groups of 10 in order to add and subtract numerals.  The language we are using is, "The numeral 13 is one ten and three".  As we add numerals together to make 20 and more, we will group the numbers into groups of 10 and then add together the ones.  This is fabulous mental math exercises and will help them so much in later grades if they learn this thinking strategy as second nature. You may help your child by doing simple addition and subtraction exercises using this technique.


We will continue our reinforcement of position and direction as we have done before.