Thursday!

Welcome back everyone!! I hope that all families had a nice and relaxing holiday season. Now that we are in a brand new calendar, there are some new announcements I would like to share with you.

1.   Students will now have the opportunity to work on our new tablets. We are implementing a designated time period during the week so students are able to exercise the use of technology in the classroom. This is really exciting, as the kids absolutely love to work with technology.

2. Snuggle up and Read: I was having some trouble getting my books back with the snuggle up and read program, however I know this program motivates the students to read at home, so I would like to continue it! I will have a sign in and out sheet now for each student (like a library). If the children do bring back their books every Monday, they will not get to sign out a new one. Your assistance with this is greatly appreciated! Parents should also be writing down the minutes on the calendar so I can track how much they are reading! For every 100 minutes, they will get a stick to add to their log J

3. Registration Packages went home just before the holidays. I hope to see every back next year! Please be sure to register as soon as possible, as these spots fill up quickly.

4. International Day will be held this year on Friday, January 23^rd, 2015. We will be in the gym from 2:30pm to 3:20pm. At this time, parents are able to come in and explore the other countries! The students will be learning about Italy. I am so excited to explore this country with the class, especially since I am Italian J. Students will be using their own information to learn about Italy. I am asking that each child print off some basic information regarding our country, so we can work on this next week! Thank you for you help!

Take a look at our day:

French – Mme. Stella

Visual Art  - Today we made some name art using our cursive techniques, and all the various types of lines that we learned out! The students got super creative with this!

Gym – Ms. Lovan

Math

Today in math we completed the math makes sense review in our workbooks. We talked about what we liked and didn’t like throughout the unit. The students then completed their work review in the textbooks. I will be sending home their workbooks tonight so all parents can begin going through workbooks.

UNIT TEST: Monday, January 12^th, 2015. The students will receive their review on Friday which we will go over in class, and then taken home in order to study.

Unit of Inquiry

Today the students watched an Author episode about his MESSY room. We paused the video and talked about how Author can ORGANIZE HIS MESS! We finished watching the video so see if our predictions were correct.

Cursive Writing  

HWT: pgs. 48 – 49

The students started writing in cursive today!

Novel Study

We continued with our Winnie the Pooh novel! We read a few pages as a class, and then I showed them the sign that Christopher Robin was trying to write! We looked at all the spelling errors together and tried to spell them correctly as a class!

Have a wonderful evening!

Ms. Rossi