Ms. Shelly's News November 26

                             

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving break!  We had s very fun week learning about the Pilgrims, Native Americans, and the first Thanksgiving before the break.  We shared things we noticed of how some things are very different now than they were 400 years ago, but also noticed some similarities. Be sure to talk with your students about the games and chores of children long ago.  We will continue to discuss long ago and today next week.

Please make sure to send in a warm jacket, gloves, and hat/earmuffs for you child each day!  We will be going outside for at least a little bit as long as the wind chill is above 35. 

I am ordering Scholastic book orders this week.  These books make great gifts.  When you order using my classroom code, it helps earn points for our room to purchase more books and games.  

• Keep practicing your address at home.  Student should know the house number, street, city, and state. The county and zip code are not part of our standards, but it is fine if you want to add that in as well. We will continue to practice at school as well. Once they are able to tell me their address, they will bring home their little house!

• Continue to practice sight words every night for 5-10 minutes. We can really see improvement in all of their reading!

Week in Review:  

• Place value (ones/tens place)
• Teen numbers
• Letter X, x  (Fix it Max) and W, w  (Walter Walrus)sounds and letter formation
• Thanksgiving, Pilgrims, Wampanoag
• Continue informational writing practice

Activity Snapshot: 

• Using a t-chart with tens and ones practice (pretzels and marshmallows)
• Fun Friday Game Day (practicing our math skills of counting and subitizing)
• Thanksgiving snack- sharing a snack together and watching Charlie Brown The First Thanksgiving.

Sneak peek at the week:

• Y, y (Yellow Yo-yo Man) sounds and letter formation
• Adjectives
• Parts of a story
• Review Place value (tens and ones)
• Motion and Gravity
• CGI (take away)

Star Student: Alina Patel

Reminders and Announcements:

• Dec. 17- Jan. 2 Winter holiday break

Ms. Shelly's News November 12

                                                 

The students had set a class goal of 36 cans (2 cans per student) to contribute to the food bank for the Can-a-thon this year.  We surpassed our goal with 56 cans!  We used this to help us review tally marks and begin skip counting by 5's.  We appreciate the contribution you made to the food bank and our learning!

We are collecting pop tabs all year long for 2nd grade project based learning initiative!  Keep us in mind when you are preparing your meals and put the tabs aside to bring to school when we return!

• Keep practicing your address at home.  Students need to know the house number, street, city, and state, county and zip code are not part of our standards, but it is fine if you want to add that in as well.

• Continue to practice sight words every night for 5-10 minutes. *50 sight words or more is meeting on the quarter 2 report card.  That is list 1 and 2. Let's keep growing our reading vocabularies

Yearbook Orders

You can now order your child’s yearbook online!!

Go to www.balfour.com

• Click the Shop Now button on the home page
• Type in Rocky Branch Elementary School in the search bar, our school should pop up.
• Just follow the prompts from the website to fill out the information requested, please make sure it is all correct before you submit. The information provided is what we will use to get the yearbook in your child’s hands at the end of the school year.

If you have any questions, issues, or concerns please contact Balfour customer service. Yearbooks are $27. All orders must be placed by January 31, 2019.No late orders will be accepted. If there are any additional/extra yearbooks they will be for sale in the front office for $30. Please do NOT count on additional yearbooks being available. Order your child’s today!

Week in Review:  

• Place value (ones/tens place)
• Letter R, r and L, l sounds and letter formation
• Day and Night
• CGI math (Cognitively Guided Instruction)- taking away

Activity Snapshot: 

• Veterans Day Assembly
• Thanksgiving decorations

Sneak peek at the week:

• We will go to the library on Mondays for the next few weeks
• Letter X, x (Fix-it Max) and  W, w (Walter Walrus) sounds and letter formation
• Comparing numbers, Tens and ones cont. 
• Then and Now, Thanksgiving
• Verbs
• CGI (taking away problems)

Star Student:  No star student 

Reminders and Announcements:

• Nov. 15- Thanksgiving Feast
• Nov. 19-23 Thanksgiving holidays
• Dec. 17- Jan. 2 Winter holiday break

Ms. Shelly's News November 5

What a FUN FILLED week!  We had so much fun dressing up as a book character from our favorite story and participating in the school parade!  We also had our DASH celebration for everyone's hard work in meeting their class goals.  We were able to watch the movie "CoCo" with our Rocket buddies in the gym on the new screen that everyone's contribution help to purchase!

The School Thanksgiving Feast is coming up.  We would love to have you join us!

• Keep practicing your address at home.  Students need to know the house number, street, city, and state, county and zip code are not part of our standards, but it is fine if you want to add that in as well.

• Continue to practice sight words every night for 5-10 minutes.

Veteran’s Assembly

We are looking for Veterans to be recognized during our Veterans Day Assembly on Nov. 9th @ 1:50.  You may contact Tiffany Hancock at thancock@oconeeschools.org. if you or someone you know would be interested in participating.

Yearbook Orders

You can now order your child’s yearbook online!!

Go to www.balfour.com

• Click the Shop Now button on the home page
• Type in Rocky Branch Elementary School in the search bar, our school should pop up.
• Just follow the prompts from the website to fill out the information requested, please make sure it is all correct before you submit. The information provided is what we will use to get the yearbook in your child’s hands at the end of the school year.

If you have any questions, issues, or concerns please contact Balfour customer service. Yearbooks are $27. All orders must be placed by January 31, 2019.No late orders will be accepted. If there are any additional/extra yearbooks they will be for sale in the front office for $30. Please do NOT count on additional yearbooks being available. Order your child’s today!

Week in Review:  

• Place value (ones/tens place)
• Letter Q,q and U, u sounds and letter formation
• Maps and address
• CGI math (Cognitively Guided Instruction)- taking away

Activity Snapshot: 

• DA$H Fun Run celebration- Watching  "CoCo"
• Book Character Parade

Sneak peek at the week:

• We will go to the library on Mondays for the next few weeks
• Letter R, r (Red Robot) and L, l (Lucy Lamplight) sounds and letter formation
• Comparing numbers
• Day and Night
• Verbs
• CGI (taking away problems)

Star Student:  Gheena AlWeshah

Reminders and Announcements:

• Nov. 5- iMom breakfast 7:20
• Nov. 15- Thanksgiving Feast
• Nov. 19-23 Thanksgiving holidays
• Dec. 17- Jan. 2 Winter holiday break