January 7, 2019
Welcome back! I was so excited to see all of my students this morning! They got to share about their break and it sounds like everyone had a great one!
Spelling Words
We have hit that point where our "sight words" have now become our "spelling words". I talked to the kiddos today about how now that they know how to read most of them, they are going to learn how to spell them too. They will be taking a spelling test each week on the last day of the week. It is so important to have them practice writing these words each day. Ideas for that are rainbow writing with crayons or markers, sand writing (using a shallow baking dish, salt/sand, and their finger), getting window markers and letting them practice writing them on the window, using shaving cream on the counter and writing in it, etc.
Our words this week are:
Math
I gave a math test before we went on break to see how my class was doing. They still need work in subtraction. We will be working on that a lot in class with review of some of the pages we did before break. We will continue to work on addition as well with homework and in centers.
Water Bottles
Just a reminder that your child is welcome (and encouraged) to bring a water bottle to keep at school for the week. They have access to this throughout the day and it is just a little easier than letting them roam the halls to the drinking fountain :). I send them home the last day of every week to be washed.
Art
This week your student will be learning about the art element Value by studying the works of Camille Pissarro. Value is the lightness or darkness of colors. They will also be creating their own paintings of a winter landscape using this element.
Spelling Words
We have hit that point where our "sight words" have now become our "spelling words". I talked to the kiddos today about how now that they know how to read most of them, they are going to learn how to spell them too. They will be taking a spelling test each week on the last day of the week. It is so important to have them practice writing these words each day. Ideas for that are rainbow writing with crayons or markers, sand writing (using a shallow baking dish, salt/sand, and their finger), getting window markers and letting them practice writing them on the window, using shaving cream on the counter and writing in it, etc.
Our words this week are:
- up
- I
- on
- a
- no
- go
- be
- me
- he
- we
Math
I gave a math test before we went on break to see how my class was doing. They still need work in subtraction. We will be working on that a lot in class with review of some of the pages we did before break. We will continue to work on addition as well with homework and in centers.
Water Bottles
Just a reminder that your child is welcome (and encouraged) to bring a water bottle to keep at school for the week. They have access to this throughout the day and it is just a little easier than letting them roam the halls to the drinking fountain :). I send them home the last day of every week to be washed.
Art
This week your student will be learning about the art element Value by studying the works of Camille Pissarro. Value is the lightness or darkness of colors. They will also be creating their own paintings of a winter landscape using this element.
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