Ms. Shelly's News March 15

This week was short, but we made the most of it! We had a lot of fun wearing green. I updated the reminders and

announcements. I can't believe we are so close to the end of the year already. Be sure to mark your calendars for

upcoming events!

Week in Review:

• Writing- Began to solve a classroom problem using our own ideas and writing about it
• Math- Practice subtraction using clover counters; Fluency practice within 5
• Reading - Prepositions; Reading Leprechaun books 
• Science- Rock explorations

Activity Snapshot:

• Graphed Lucky charms cereal marshmallows
• Picture day
• 1st grade play- Pajama Party

Peek at the week:

• ELA: Main idea and details from a story cont.
• Writing: Opinion Writing; Dinosaur research book
• Math: Addition and Subtraction; Missing addend
• Science:Living and Nonliving Things

              DINO-MITE Book Fair is coming to Rocky Branch Elementary School from

                                                     March 18 through 22!

Book Fair - Click for Schedule

Please let me know what day someone is coming. It helps us to know who to be looking for with so many grandparents in attendance!

Grandparent Lunches - Click for Lunch Schedule

Grandparents are welcome any day to eat lunch and do not have to sign up. 

IMPORTANT - Parents need to give permission for adults planning on eating with their child. Please complete the google form to list adults planning on attending. Click HERE to complete.

STEAM Night - March 19th 5:00 - 7:00

There will be free hands on activities for all ages.
 Ice Cream and ESP Java Joy Hot Chocolate will be part of a fundraiser. This is one of the highlights of the year - don't miss out! 

What is the 2019 Rocky Branch Mother and Son event?

Skate Night!

Where?

Athens Skate Inn 295 Commerce Blvd. Athens, Georgia 30606

When?

Tuesday April 16th, 2019   5:30 – 7:30

How much will it cost?

$5.00 per person (pay at the door, no prepay needed)

*Concessions will be available for purchase.

See you there!

Reminders and Announcements

• March 18-22 Spring Book Fair
• March 19 STEAM night @ RBES
• April 1-5 Spring Break
• April 15 iMom breakfast
• April 16 Mother/Son Skate Night @ Skate Inn
• April 17 RBES night @ Sonic
• April 26 Field Trip to the Farm (Rock House Creamery)
• April 26 - Relay for Life 6p-12a
• May 13 K-2 Field Day (be sure to sign up to volunteer quickly, if you are trained, when the sign up come out.  It fills up fast!)
• May 17 Half day of school on last day of School
• May   End of Year party (time to be announced later)

Ms. Shelly's News March 8

 DINO-MITE Book Fair is coming to Rocky Branch Elementary School from
March 18 through 22!

Book Fair - Click for Schedule

Grandparent Lunches - Click for Lunch Schedule

Grandparents are welcome any day to eat lunch and do not have to sign up. 

IMPORTANT - Parents need to give permission for adults planning on eating with their child. Please complete the google form to list adults planning on attending. Click HERE to complete.

STEAM Night - March 19th 5:00 - 7:00

There will be free hands on activities for all ages.
 Ice Cream and ESP Java Joy Hot Chocolate will be part of a fundraiser. This is one of the highlights of the year - don't miss out! 

 

Our STEAM Night Ice Cream Social will be Tues., Mar. 19 from 5-7 p.m. in the cafeteria. Please send in any of the following toppings and materials to the RBES front office before Mar. 15.

Materials and Topping Needed

bowls

plastic spoons

napkins

2-Liter bottles of Coke

brownies

variety of toppings (gummy bears, cherries, sprinkles, syrup, chocolate chips, m&ms, etc.)

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

Grandparent Lunches

Parents will be asked to complete a google form indicating who is allowed to eat with their child during Book Fair week.  The link will be in the March Parent Newsletter.  Link will be sent by the end of the week from the front office.

Week in Review:

• Writing: Dr. Seuss stories; Research writing on dinosaurs
• Math: mixed addition and subtraction practice within 5 
• ELA: rhyming; real and nonsense words; CVC/CCVC words

Activity Snapshot:

• We read lots of Dr. Seuss stories this week.  Some we have heard and some were new!
• We enjoyed dressing up this week!  Thanks for helping to support this fun activity!
• We made Cat in the Hat and Daisy Head Maizy hats.
• Math fluency practice with rainbow goldfish crackers.

Peek at the week:

• ELA: Main idea and details from a story
• Writing: Intro. to opinion writing
• Math: Addition and Subtraction fluency to 5
• Science: Rocks and soil

Reminders and Announcements:

• March 11- Teacher Work Day  (No school) Scheduled conferences
• March 14-  K Picture Day 
• March 18- 22- Spring book fair- Parents are welcome to attend! A calendar came home with our day and time
• March 19- STEAM night @ RBES
• April 1-5 Spring Break
• April 26 - Relay for Life

Ms. Shelly's News March 1

If you have not yet signed up for a conference, please do so soon.  If you need a different time, please contact me directly.  If you do not feel that you need to meet with me, you are not required to, but please send an email to let me know you do not wish to have a conference at this time.

Spring conference sign up

Seuss Week

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

Grandparent Lunches

Parents will be asked to complete a google form indicating who is allowed to eat with their child during Book Fair week.  The link will be in the March Parent Newsletter.  Link will be sent by the end of the week from the front office.

Week in Review:

• Writing: Finished up our most recent true narrative writing. Shared our writings with the class!
• Math: mixed addition and subtraction practice within 5
• ELA: Practice blending CVC/CCVC  (consonant, vowel, consonant) words; Verbs
• Science: Intro to soil

Activity Snapshot:

• The Pilot club visited to put on a puppet show about safety "Brain Minders" to teach us how to protect our bodies and our brain from injury.
• We played in different soils.  Lots of observations and comparisons happening in the classroom and on the playground!

Peek at the week:

• Writing: Dinosaur research book, Dr. Seuss story
• Math: mixed addition and subtraction practice
• ELA: Practice blending CVC/CCVC words; Rhyming
• Dr. Seuss week

Reminders and Announcements:

• March 6 & 7- K registration (If you know of anyone that will be starting K at RBES next year, please pass these dates along!

• March 11- Teacher Work Day 
• March 14-  K Picture Day 
• March 18- 22- Spring book fair- Parents are welcome to attend! A calendar came home with our day and time
• March 19- STEAM night @ RBES
• April 1-5 Spring Break
• April 26 - Relay for Life

Ms. Shelly's News February 22

We had such a fun time on our field trip to the INK museum!  They worked, observed, discovered, explored all day.  Several even napped on the way back to school.  Thank you to the parents who were able to come.  We appreciate your help so much!  A ticket for a return trip went home in their folders. 

We are approaching the end of the 3rd quarter!  The year is going by so quickly.  I will be working on a schedule for spring conferences and will share that out to you soon.   

I am about halfway through sight word checks for the end of February.  To be "meeting" the kindergarten standard, students will need to know a minimum of 100 sight words by the end of the year.  A "meets" for this quarter would be 75 words or more.  They must be able to tell me the word within 3 seconds to "know it". Sounding out words does not count. Please continue to review sight words with your student each night for homework.  

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

Thank you to everyone who participated in Raise Craze this year!  Rocky Branch students collectively completed over 1800 acts of kindness at home and in the community. Rocks have been passed out to help the ripple effect continue.  We made notes for our Rocket Buddies, we cleaned up things that were not necessary our mess.  We helped friends in need with book bags and chairs, we created cards and pictures for others!

Week in Review:

• Writing: We have continued to write about true narratives  (stories with a beginning, middle and end). We wrote about our field trip to the INK museum.
• Math: Coin ID: penny and nickle; Continue to practice adding and subtracting
• ELA: We read Amelia Bedelia. We practiced multiple meaning words (words with m ore than one meaning)
• Social Studies:President's Day; George Washington; Abraham Lincoln

Activity Snapshot:

• Guest speaker, Maria, came to talk about how acts of kindness have touched her life and what she is doing to pass on kindness to others!
• We read: I am George Washington. We made George Washington's face.
• We read: I am Abraham Lincoln. We made Abe Lincoln with a penny

Peek at the week:

• Writing: Wrap up learning about (true) narrative writing (stories with a beginning, middle, and end). Sharing our stories with the class later this week!
• Math: mixed addition and subtraction practice; continue coin ID practice
• ELA: Practice blending CVC/CCVC words; Review digraphs; Verbs
• Science: begin rocks and soil

Reminders and Announcements:

• March 6 & 7- K registration (If you know of anyone that will be starting K at RBES next year, please pass these dates along!

• 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

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

Raise Craze

Hey all!  I just wanted to make signing up as easy as possible for everyone.  I signed myself up for the class and I'm hanging there all by myself at the moment.  Please do not feel obligated to look at this as a fundraiser, but please help your child be involved with a great kindness booster by signing up and doing something positive for another!

Raise Craze website

Signing up was very easy.  Select the items from the list that you are already doing and maybe 1 reasonable to add to an already busy season of life! It will ask for email addresses if you wish to send to family or friends, but this is optional.  Be sure to click the completed items on your child's dashboard that have been completed.  This gives me an update to how we are doing with our gifts of kindness in the community and in our homes!  Thank you again for supporting such an awesome attribute in these amazing kids!!

Digital Learning Day

For access to the Digital Learning Day assignments, please click  here. Click through the slide show for assignments to be completed for kindergarten and connection classes. Activities are linked by clicking the hyperlink or picture. Teachers will be available for questions on Monday, February  18th. Please let me know if you have any difficulty with the link. This is new to us all and we are hoping this will be the easiest way for parents to access the assignments.  Digital Learning will be open from Monday, February 11 until Friday, February 22.

Happy learning!