Week of September 26th

I would like to congratulate Ellie Marosis on her commitment by submitting drawings for the the Spooky Spaghetti T-shirt contest and the yearbook cover.  They announced the winners of the T-shirt contest on Friday morning and sadly she was not one of them.  However ...  she is the winner of the yearbook cover contest!  How awesome!!!  Please take the time to congratulate her when you see her.

Thank you to all who have signed up to volunteer in the classroom or spearhead a school project/task!  The kids really like to see your involvement in the classroom/school.  We still need more volunteers to help during Journal in the morning.  Please look for an email with more details.

LDC: this week we begin our first rotation to LDC (Literary Development Center), our magnet program.  We will be with Ms. Diaz from 1:05-1:50 for the next two weeks.  Our mornings remain unchanged, but the afternoon will be compressed.

Language Arts: we will work on the short i sound, final -x, and high frequency words. The Spelling list consists of 10 words: 8 words that follow the rule(s) for the week and 2 HFWs. There will also be 2 optional Bonus Words (no points are deducted if mis-spelled, +1 per word). Spelling tests will be given each Friday morning.

Math: we will work on numbers to 20 and on the hundreds chart

Science: this week we will focus on sorting objects by their attributes.  For example, sorting by color, size, shape, topic, texture, etc.

PYP: We will begin the How we Express Ourselves planner this week. We continue reviewing the PYP profile and attitudes and the Choose-Act-Reflect cycle.

We worked as a class to create a timeline of our day together.  It started with the Journal activity and ended with Dismissal; some kids added Extended Day to personalize the timeline.

 Two completed versions of a timeline of our class' day!

Week of September 19th

Language Arts: we will work on the short a sound, final -ck, and high frequency words. The Spelling list from now on will consist of 1o words: 8 words that follow the rule(s) for the week and 2 HFWs.  There will also be 2 optional Bonus Words.  Spelling tests will be given each Friday morning.

Math: we will work on numbers to 20 and on the hundreds chart

Social Studies: this week we will focus on sequencing and on past/present/future; look for a fun homework assignment on Monday.

PYP: We are wrapping up the Who We Are planner. We will continue reviewing the PYP profile and attitudes and the Choose-Act-Reflect cycle.

Da-In and Jeffrey working on patterns.

Angel is completing the pattern that Ethan created.

Practicing Word Work: making short e words on the SmartBoard.

We started workstations this week; here the kids are at Computer, working on the online components of the reading program.

Our buckets are getting 'full!'

Toby and Zariyah using their senses to learn by observing a rock.

Ellie really liked the rock she observed!

Kayla and Nathaniel work on recording their observations.

Week of Sep. 12th

Language Arts: we will work on the short u sound and high frequency words. The Spelling list this week will consist of 15 words: 10 words that follow the rule for the week and 5 HFWs. We will have the Spelling test on Friday morning.

Math: we will work on patterns

Science: we will work on recording and observing traits of different objects

PYP: We are wrapping up the Who We Are planner.  We will continue reviewing the PYP profile and attitudes and the Choose-Act-Reflect cycle.

Working on Kindness Quilt squares

Week of September 5th

Wow, we made it through the first week with homework and capped it off with a Spelling Test!

Please make sure your child returns the homework on Fridays, most everyone did this first week = Great Job!

Language Arts: we will work on short e sound and high frequency words.  The Spelling list, from now on, will consist of 15 words: 10 words that follow the rule for the week and 5 HFWs.  We will have regular Spelling tests on Friday mornings.

Math: we will work on comparing and ordering numbers

Social Studies: we will focus on leaders and rules.

PYP: We will continue working on Who We Are and reviewing the PYP profile and attitudes.

Jeffrey and Toby model to the class how to work at the Library Workstation.

 The kids FINALLY got to go on the Spider!!!!  For safety reasons, first grade gets to go on the Spider on days that the class' ancillary is Spanish.

We went on a Listening Walk and tracked the different sounds we heard, many which we don't notice when we walk down the hallways making noises ourselves!

"I heard Ms. Fromen's flip-flops making noise!"

 Sharing Journal!  It's amazing how much more the kids are writing in just one week :)