Ms. Shelly's News February 15

Happy President's Day!  DLD is here.  The assignments were opened up last Monday and will remain open until February 22nd.  Please let me know if you have any questions regarding the assignments.  If you are trying to access the websites through a tablet, it will ask you to subscribe or purchase the app.  These are free websites if you use them from a laptop or desk top computer.

As we come up on the end of the month, I will be pulling everyone for sight word list checks.  Keep practicing the list you have currently and passed lists to keep words fresh on the brain!  They need to be able to tell me the word within 3 seconds to move on to a new list.  No sounded out words count.  Thank you for your help with this!

Our field trip is this Thursday.  Please make sure to return permission slips and lunch choice for your student ASAP!

• Continue to practice sight words every night for 5-10 minutes. We can really see improvement in all of their reading!
• Continue to practice counting to 100 by 1's and 10's at home. Some students have moved on to counting by 5's.
• Shoe Tying practice...There are some super interested kids wanting to tie their shoes all on their own.  Be sure to practice this skill at home.

The RBES PTO is heading up this kindness initiative. The students have painted a rock to pass out in the community to say someone has been R.O.C.K.E.D. by kindness. The rock and card, along with more specifics will come home next week.  The purpose of Raise Craze is not to pay students for being kind, but to encourage acts of kindness in general.  This is to go along with the "k" in the ROCKETS way! Make sure you record what you do in the community on the Raise Craze website in order to show our class is working hard to pay it forward!

Week in Review:

• Writing: We have continued to write about true narratives  (stories with a beginning, middle and end). We have started a new research book on Dinosaurs.  Students' choice!
• Math: subtracting within 10
• ELA: Valentine book read aloud this week.  We practice retelling the story and picking out the details from the beginning, middle, and end.
• Practice digraphs sh, ch, and th.
• Social Studies:National Symbols: Statue of Liberty, Bald Eagle

Activity Snapshot:

• Learned a new song: "You're a Grand Old Flag"
• We bowled to practice subtracting.
• We took a Virtual field trip to the National monuments and the White house
• We checked on the bald eagle and the eaglets using the Berry College eagle cam
• We created our own paper eagle.

Peek at the week:

• Writing: Continue learning about (true) narrative writing (stories with a beginning, middle, and end)
• Math: mixed addition and subtraction practice; data collection and grraphing; coin ID
• ELA: Multiple Meaning Words
• Social Studies: National Symbols- Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, President's Day

Reminders and Announcements:

• February 11- 22 Raise Craze 
• February 18- Digital Learning Day (no school)
• February 21- INK field trip
• March 11- Teacher Work Day 
• March 13-  K Picture Day 
• March 18-22- Spring book fair
• March 19- STEAM night @ RBES
• April 1-5 Spring Break