Saturday, September 20, 2014

Weekly preview and school news (9/22-9/26)

Good morning parents and guardians,

I hope you all had a great weekend. We had a very busy week in our class. Learned so much but had fun doing it! Parents please continue to speak with your children about proper restroom use and please remind them to use the restroom before school, during recesses and after school. Thank you!

Lets gets started with school news:

  • 9/22 REACH school board meeting at 7:00 pm
  • 9/23 First emergency drill of the year
    • Parents please talk to your children about following directions on events like this and how to behave. You may also talk to them about the duck and cover process and another other information you feel your child may need to stay calm on this date and future drills.Thank you.
  • 9/25 Awards assemblies (*those students receiving an award in my class were sent home yesterday with a notification)
    • Tk/K 8:00-8:45 am
    • 1st/2nd 8:45-9:30 am
    • 3rd/4th 9:30-10:15 am
  • Lunch
    • Our school will now have children input their lunch numbers on a key pad when receiving breakfast or a hot lunch. Please practice with your child at home. I will be sending home a copy of the keypad with their lunch numbers in next week's homework packet. Please keep at home to practice daily (this will help lines go by faster). Thank you!
  • PTO (more information  will be in student's homework this week)


Peek at our week:

Language Arts
  • Parents I sent home a notification letter out this past week with your user name and password to access out Language Arts and Science curriculum. If you have any questions please feel free to contact me.
    • Unit 1-Week 3-"Plaidypus Lost"
      • Content Knowledge: Families Living, Working, and Playing Together
      • Phonemic Awareness: Initial Sounds
      • Letter Recognition: Oo
      • Comprehension Skill: Sequence
      • Handwriting: O and o
      • Listening and Speaking: Rhyme and Rhythm
      • High Frequency Words: the, little
      • Words to talk about (amazing words): platypus, around, lost, found, market and groceries
    • Test: Weekly test-Comprehension-sequence also writing samples (student are given a prompt and asked to write and illustrate about it)
Math
  • Chapter 2-Numbers 0-9
    • Students will be able to count from 1 to 6.
    • Students will be able to count from 1 to 7
    • Students will be able to count from 1 to 8
    • Students will be able to use 0 to 9 to tell the number of objects
    • Students will be able to pair up sets of objects with other sets of the same quantity.
Science

  • Chapter 2: Solve problems
    • Students will be able to identify a problem and a design and materials for solving it.
    • Students will note that one can draw and plan, create and test solution
    • Students will explain that solutions can be shared in different ways
    • Students will see different items sink or float and will make a prediction about apples and graph it
  • Test: on Chapter 2
  • We will also be learning about apples all day long through out the day in honor of our apple day celebration on Friday.
    • If you would like to donate any apple goodies for this day please let me know. There is also a sign up sheet on the classroom door. Thank you to all those parents that have already signed up! I can't wait for our fun educational celebration.
Social Studies
  • Unit 1-Lesson 3: What can we learn from stories?
    • Student will know beliefs and related behaviors of characters in stories from times past and understand the consequences of the characters' actions
  • Leadership: Complete and turn in all of your work

*This week's science project involved listening and following directions. I tried my best to not let the children know what we were making, using "secret science ingredients" but they were just too smart! They knew all the ingredients right away and were able to predict we were making lemonade. After making our special mixture we used out 5 senses to describe it.


Parents and guardians please feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns. Enjoy the weekend! :)

Miss. Maciel
amaciel@reachroyals.org

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