January 11-15, 2016

Specials
Monday - 3
Tuesday - 4
Wednesday - 5
Thursday - 6
Friday - 1

Upcoming Events
January 15 - Report Cards go home
January 18 - MLK Day (No school!)
January 19 - PTA Meeting at 6:30
January 29 - 2nd 9 weeks Recognitions at 10AM

Kid-Friendly Objectives

I can read, write, and identify words with oa and ow letter teams.
I can write facts about penguins.
I can use verbs correctly in past, present, and future tenses.
I can locate key facts or information using text features.
I can identify unknown words or phrases.
I can describe numbers using tens and ones.
I can compare two digit numbers using >, <, or =.

Spelling List

Please practice writing your spelling words in sentences this week. I will be selecting one of the following words on your child's spelling list to write in a complete sentence. He/she will be evaluated for capitalization, punctuation, writing every word in the sentence, and spelling the word correctly in the sentence.

List A (Purple Cats, Green Frogs)

coat
soap
soak
loan
row
tow
snow
throw
float

List B (Blue Dogs, Yellow Ducks)

throat
coach
toast
arrow
know
window
show
approach
flown

Week in Review!
Last week was a full, busy week! We hit the ground running this month with verbs, place value, and PENGUINS!

We started off by comparing penguins to other birds. We spent the rest of the week researching penguins and discussing how text features help us gather information. This week, we are diving (ha!) into different types of penguins.

We practiced using Base 10 blocks to build numbers all the way to 100! We learned how the first digit is the tens place and the second digit is the ones place. 

We used our Base 10 knowledge to help us write numbers in 4 different ways:

Standard

Expanded

Base 10

and Tens & Ones.

Here's an example:

42

40+2

IIII - -

4 tens, 2 ones

We cracked ourselves up with these fun pipe cleaner people. We chose different verbs to represent ourselves as pipe cleaner people. Check out how creative this class is. Always blowing me away. :)