Look into our week 2/2-2/6

Good morning parents and guardians, 

I hope you are all enjoying the weekend! As mentioned in my last two post we have two celebrations coming up (more information and  a sign up sheet is available on the easel outside of the classroom-almost all donated items have been signed to be donated-THANK YOU): Valentines day and 100th day of school.
Our Valentines day celebration will be Feb 12 and our 100th day celebration will be Feb 18. 
I sent home a flier this week about the Valentines Day Card box-Family project. Here are some more ideas. You do not need to be limited to a shoe box or cereal box, even water/milk gallons work!

Some big news about 100th day, students this year are allowed to dress up as 100 year old (school wide)!  Here are some ideas:

Here are is some important new from the PTO and dates to keep in mind:

2/4: Day of play

(More information in my previous post)

2/11: Coffee with Director

2/12: Valentines Day celebrations 

-Students are allowed to bring in Valentines this day

-We have 27 students in our class

-To make it easier on the students to pass out cards please fill out "To: Friend"and "From: student's name"

2/13:Lincoln's Birthday-No school

2/16: President's day-No school

2/18: 100th day of school and Practice Drill @9:00 am

2/20: Family Lunch Friday

2/26 Awards Assembly with performance

-We will be singing a Martin Luther King song

-Feel free to have students practice the song at home

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kd07Tyxcc0

2/27: Meet the Masters with Mr. Ruben (Art lesson)

Here is a look into our new week

Language Arts:

• Story: Unit 3-Week 5 "Then and Now"






• Weekly comprehension exam: Draw Conclusions 

Math:

• Continue with Chapter 9: Comparing Sets
• Comparing sets up to 10
• Students will be able to understand fewer and less
• Comparing sets 11-20
• Comparing sets to find the difference
• Students will be able to count the difference through comparing sets in one-to-one correspondence.

Science:

• Begin Chapter 7: Matters and Mixtures
• Students will be able to identify and measure solid objects.
• Students will be able to observe how liquids take the shape of their containers.
• Students will be able to tell that gases fill their containers
• Students will be able to tell how water changes by freezing, melting and boiling

Social Studies:

• Valentines Day
• Fun projects all week long

Leadership:

• Perseverance: The Civil Rights Movement

Please feel free to email me or stop by with any questions or concerns.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend!

Miss. Maciel

Ps. Our Shutterfly page was updated with new pictures. IF you do not have access and would like to see the pictures, please email me and I will send you an invitation. :)

Day of play

ABOUT GLOBAL SCHOOL PLAY DAY!

Wednesday, February 4, 2015 is the launch of the first annual Global School Play Day for students in schools around the world, grades Pre-K to 6, and REACH will be participating.

“In his TEDx lecture, Peter Gray clearly argues the case that today’s kids do not grow up playing and this has negatively impacted them in many ways. It’s time we return the gift of play to this generation.” ~globalschoolplayday.com

You can find more information and the link to Peter Gray’s lecture at www.globalschoolplayday.com. Check it out!

BRING YOUR TOYS!

Your child may bring anything they wish to play with to school on Wednesday, February 4^th. The only restrictions: they must bring toys and these toys may NOT require batteries or electricity. No devices.

Acceptable Items: Board games, dolls, Legos, blocks, trucks, cars, racetracks, playing cards, chalk, empty cardboard boxes, markers, coloring books, jigsaw puzzles, blankets (for forts), social games (charades, Pictionary, etc.) The only exception on the electronics rule would be a board game that has an electronic timer, an electronics play kit, or similar.

Unacceptable Items: iPads, Tablets, bikes, scooters, roller skates, skateboards and anything that your child would be upset about if it is broken or lost.

PLAY! 

On February 4^th, we will spread the toys out around the room and just PLAY!

Look into our week Jan 26-330

Good morning parents and guardians, 

I hope you are all enjoying the weekend! As mentioned in my last post we have two celebrations coming up (more information to follow from myself  very soon and information and  a sign up sheet is available on the easel outside of the classroom): Valentines day and 100th day of school.
Our Valentines day celebration will be Feb 12 and our 100th day celebration will be Feb 18. Some big news about 100th day, students this year are allowed to dress up as 100 year old (school wide)!  Here are some ideas:

Here are is some important new from the PTO and dates to keep in mind:

1/26: Meet the Masters with Mr. Ruben (Art lesson)

1/29: Awards Assembly

1/30: Jump Rope for Hearts @ 1:30

-Please be sure your child returns their participation form (even if no donation is made)

2/11: Coffee with Director

2/12: Valentines Day celebrations 

-Students are allowed to bring in Valentines this day

-We have 27 students in our class

-To make it easier on the students to pass out cards please fill out "To: Friend"and "From: student's name"

2/13:Lincoln's Birthday-No school

2/16: President's day-No school

2/18: 100th day of school

2/20: Family Lunch Friday

2/26 Awards Assembly with performance

-We will be singing a Martin Luther King song

-Feel free to have students practice the song at home

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kd07Tyxcc0

2/27: Meet the Masters with Mr. Ruben (Art lesson)

Here is a look into our new week

Language Arts:

• Story: Unit 3-Week 4 "Farfanilla and Marcel"










• Weekly comprehension exam: Plot 

Math:

• Finish up Chapter 8: Numbers to 100
• We are focusing on teaching the students how to make  and count groups of ten and ones
• Exp: 
  
  
  
  10, 20, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39
  
  
• Here is a song that shows the students the teen numbers (using tens and ones) this is a great way to "see" what we are trying to show them so they can then count higher with more tens and ones
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uedvwH6Ay18

Science:

• Continue with Chapter 4: Plants and animals
• Students will tell how people chance as they grow
• Students will tell about plants and animals that live on land
• Students will tell about plants and animals that live in water
• Test: Friday
• HELP NEEDED: If possible, I would love to get some baby pictures of my kiddos emailed to me to show the class and have the kids guess which classmate it is. THANK YOU in advance if you are able to share pictures with us!!!

Social Studies:

• Groundhogs Day
• What is this day?
• What is a groundhog?

Leadership:

• School Choice: Why do you choose REACH?

Please feel free to email me or stop by with any questions or concerns.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend!

Miss. Maciel

Ps. Our Shutterfly page was updated with new pictures. IF you do not have access and would like to see the pictures, please email me and I will send you an invitation. :)

Look into our week-Jan 19-23

Good afternoon parents and guardians, 

I hope you are all enjoying this three day weekend! We have two celebrations coming up (more information to follow from myself and the room parents): Valentines day and 100th day of school.
Our Valentines day celebration will be Feb 12 and our 100th day celebration will be Feb 18. Some big news about 100th day, students this year are allowed to dress up as 100 year old! I showed the students pictures the other day and they were very excited. Here are some ideas:

Here are is some important new from the PTO and dates to keep in mind:

1/19: MLK-No school

1/20: Wacky Wednesday 

-Our class will be building bubble structures from 11:00-12:00

-If you would like to help this day please feel free to email me or stop by to let me know

1/26: Meet the Masters with Mr. Ruben (Art lesson)

1/29: Awards Assembly

2/11: Coffee with Director

2/12: Valentines Day celebrations 

-Students are allowed to bring in Valentines this day

-We have 27 students in our class

-To make it easier on the students to pass out cards please fill out "To: Friend"and "From: student's name"

2/13:Lincoln's Birthday-No school

2/16: President's day-No school

2/18: 100th day of school

2/20: Family Lunch Friday

2/26 Awards Assembly with performance

-We will be singing a Martin Luther King song

-Feel free to have students practice the song at home

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kd07Tyxcc0

2/27: Meet the Masters with Mr. Ruben (Art lesson)

Here is a look into our new week

Language Arts:

• Story: Unit 3-Week 3 "George Washington Visits"




• Weekly comprehension exam: Cause and Effect

Math:

• Continue with Chapter 8: Numbers to 100
• We are focusing on teaching the students how to make groups of ten and then count on
• Students are having a hard time showing numbers using rods of 10 (groups of ten) and cubes of 1 (ones)
• Here is a song that shows the students the teen numbers (using tens and ones) this is a great way to "see" what we are trying to show them so they can then count higher with more tens and ones
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uedvwH6Ay18

Science:

• Chapter 4: Plants and animals
• Students will be able to match young animals with their parents.
• Students will describe how animals change as they grow.
• Will focus on the life cycle of a frog and a butterfly
• Students will tell how plants chance as they grow

Social Studies:

• Unit 2-Lesson 1: What are symbols?
• Students will recognize nation and state symbols and icons

Leadership:

• Excellence: Confidence

Please feel free to email me or stop by with any questions or concerns.

Enjoy the rest of the three day weekend!

Miss. Maciel

Ps. Our Shutterfly page was updated with new pictures. IF you do not have access and would like to see the pictures, please email me and I will send you an invitation. :)

January 12-16

Good morning parents and guardians, 
I hope your kiddos had a great first week back! We are starting to get back into our classroom routines with only minimal setbacks. Please remind your child to continue to follow all the classroom rooms, we have had to stop a few times to review them, especially rule number 4: Raise your hand to speak or stand. Other than this, my students are doing a great job and are even closer to being first graders!

Here are some quick reminders from our awesome PTO

January Dates to keep in mind:

-1/12: PTO mtg @ 4 pm & REACH Board mtg @ 7pm

1/14: Coffee with Director @ 8am

1/19: MLK-NO SCHOOL

1/21: Wacky Wednesday (more information to follow soon)

1/22: Parent technology meeting @ 6pm

1/26-1/30: Nation School Choice Week

1/28: Prospective Parent Info Mtg @5pm

1/29: January Awards Assembly @ 8am

Here is a look into our week:

Language Arts:

• Unit 3-Week 2-"Little Quack"

• Weekly comprehension exam: Plot
• CVC word reading and high frequency word reading exam this week
• 5 points-read CVC with out sounding out word-"Cat"
• 4 points-sounds out word aloud and reads word again-"/c/ /a/ /t/-Cat"
• 3 points-reads sounds of each letter but does not blend word again-"/c/ /a/ /t/"
• 2 points-reads only 2 letter sounds-"/c/ /a/"
• 1 point-read only 1 letter sound-"/c/"
• 0 points-no letter sounds read

Math:

• Begin new chapter-Chapter 8:Numbers to 100
• Students will be able to count by 2s.
• Students will be able to count by 5s.
• Students will be able to count by 10s.
• Students will be able to count to 49.
• Example:
• -Count on using 1 group (rod/group) of 10 (begin to count on from 10)
• -Count on using 2 groups (rod/group) of 10 (begin to count on from 20)
• -Count on using 3 groups (rod/group) of 10 (begin to count on from 30)
• -Count on using 4 groups (rod/group) of 10 (begin to count on from 40)  

Social Studies:

• Unit 6: L3-How have things changed?

• Students will understand how people lived in earlier times and how their lives would be different today.

Leadership:

• Leadership-Try your best

Science:

• Finish Chapter 3: Living and Nonliving things
• Students will be able to identify the needs of living things
• Students will be able to tell some ways animals are the same and different
• Students will be able to tell some ways plants are the same and different
• Chapter test on Friday

I will be out of the classroom all day Wednesday, but will still be on campus. Please remind your son and our daughter to listen to the substitute and follow all the rules. They should act exactly the same way as if I was there, if not even better!

Please feel free to email me or stop by if you have any questions or concerns.

Thank you and enjoy the weekend, 

Miss. Maciel

Welcome back…Happy 2015

Good afternoon parents and guardians,

Happy New Year! I hope you all had a great time over these past two weeks with your kiddos and making memories to last a lifetime. I am excited to get back to work and prep my kiddos for 1st grade!
Before we know it, we will be practicing for our ceremony and signing our year books. In the mean time, we still have a lot to learn and fun to have.

Here are some quick reminders from out awesome PTO

January Dates to keep in mind:

-1/12: PTO mtg @ 4 pm & REACH Board mtg @ 7pm

1/14: Coffee with Director @ 8am

1/19: MLK-NO SCHOOL

1/22: Parent technology meeting @ 6pm

1/26-1/30: Nation School Choice Week

1/28: Prospective Parent Info Mtg @5pm

1/29: January Awards Assembly @ 8am

Here is a look into our first week back

Language Arts:

• Unit 3-Wk 1: "Little Panda"

• Weekly Comprehension Exam: Compare and Contrast

Math:

• Chapter 7-Shapes
• Students will be able to recognize and name basic solid shapes.
• Students will be able to describe basic solid and flat shapes
• Students will be able to say name and draw flat shapes
• Students will be able to make pictures using basic flat shapes
• Students will be able to identify and extend a shape pattern

Social Studies:

• Unit 6: L2-Who are people in history?
• Students will know the triumphs in American legends and historical accounts through the stories of people

Leadership:

• Excellence-What does excellence look like?

Science:

• Chapter3-Living and Nonliving thing
• Students will be able to identify living and nonliving things. 

As always, please feel free to email me with any questions or concerns.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend and see you all on MONDAY!

Miss. Maciel