Ms. Shelly's News February 8

We had a wonderful school assembly this morning based on "kindness" and led by our wonderful first grade!  We kicked off  "Raise Craze"!  Start thinking about how you are showing kindness to each other at home and ways we could show kindness to others in the community. We will be doing some things in class to make others feel special. 

It was our week to collect and weigh the plastic bags.  Our Rocket buddies help us  with this task. Thank you for continuing to help support all our our PBL's! K- Plastic film recycling 1st- collecting loose change to "Give burns the Boot" every Friday, 2nd- aluminum pop tabs for the Ronald McDonald House.  I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

Please send in your Valentine cards with the "from" only.  It helps us get them passed out quickly.  We are making a bag at school.  No need to send in a separate item.

We have had some trouble with school store items in our classroom.  As a class, we came to a solution that we would not use these items in the classroom anymore. We have sent everything home that was in their school boxes and asked that they to not bring them back to class.  They are still able to go to the school store if the choose, but the items will have to stay in their book bag and go home at the end of the day.

Please only have a toy in book bags if your child is the Star Student for the week.  This has been another distraction that we are trying to correct.

• 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.
• 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.

We will be sharing a link through email on Monday to easily access what you will need to complete for the Digital Learning Day. I will also post the link on the blog as well.

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: Continue learning about (true) narrative writing (stories with a beginning, middle, and end)
• Math: Adding  and subtracting within 10
• ELA: Long /u/; Antonyms (opposites); Digraphs- (two letters that make a new sound) sh, ch, th
• Science: Dental health
• Social Studies: "Pledge of Allegiance"; "Star Spangled Banner"

Activity Snapshot:

• Created our own story problem to go along with the story The Day it Rained Hearts
• Play "double compare" ("War" flipping over two cards and adding the numbers together) with partners.
• Publishing party with our Rocket buddies- Penguin research books came home today! Enjoy!

Peek at the week:

• Subtraction; Subtracting within 10 
• Continue American Symbols
• Multiple Meaning words

Reminders and Announcements:

• February 11- 22 Raise Craze 
• February 11- iMom breakfast
• 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