Happy Friday! Valentine's Day is almost upon us and I wanted to put this message closer to the top of my blog post:). The children are in the process of making their own handwritten Valentines for each other rather than buying them. These heartfelt notes will be treasured by them because each one will be made with great love and care. I've had past students come back to tell me that they still have their box with the Valentine's inside and that they still read them to this day! Our celebration will be the afternoon of February 12th.
In Word Study, we continued to learn about the long /a/ patterns of /ay/, /ai/ and /eigh/. In Writer's Workshop, we finished up our study of punctuation in time to edit our own persuasive letters to each other. On Thursday, each child was asked to write a persuasive letter to a future first grader on why they will love first grade! I will post these on Progress Book sometime next week. Today, we kicked off the next four days of Valentine's Workshop. As stated above, each child will be making a Valentine for each of the children in our class. If you have any fun stickers, spongy stickers, anything fun and crafty that you'd like to get rid of to use to decorate our Valentine's just send it in on Monday:)). In science, we learned about WHY penguins are so…well, pleasantly plump and how they keep warm. See the picture below to read about what the children had to say about our experiment. We also had a second visit from someone that works at the Columbus Zoo to tell us about polar bears. Next week, we will begin collecting Pennies for Polar Bears as a conservation effort to help out these white, furry friends. More information coming next week. In math workshop, we finished up Topic 9 which was comparing numbers to 100 and have taken the pre-assessment for Topic 10 which is a continuation of tens and ones. I have been attaching homework to the workouts of any students that need more experience with the lesson concepts taught that day. In reader's workshop, we compared two fictional stories about penguins using a venn diagram.
This is a reminder from our PTO:
SCE PTO presents "Family Game Night” held at Scottish Corners on Friday, March 6 from 6:30 – 9:00pm. Enjoy dinner from LaRosa’s and free Bingo with lots of great prizes. Keep your eye out for flyers to pre-order dinner coming home with students soon. You won’t want to miss this fun-filled family event!
I have several coming for conferences next week. If you have forgotten your time, please let me know.
Our schedule for next week: Monday - Art Tuesday - Music Wednesday - Library Thursday - P.E. Friday - NO SCHOOL!
This girl looks like Princess Leah from Star Wars!
This boy is saying "AAAAAYYYYY" like the Fonz. How many of you remember what show he starred in??? Yes, I am that old that I would know:))
This boy is reading the new penguin book that we got from Dury, someone's grandpa in our room. I accidentally typed the child's real name and all of the children caught my mistake immediately and told me to take the name off! Internet safety at work in Room 118!
We are doing an experiment. This person is putting her hand in a blubber glove and the other two fingers that we touched the penguins with are covered in Vaseline. The Vaseline was the waterproofing like the waterproof feathers of a penguin. We stuck them in freezing cold water. The blubber glove kept our hand warmer than our fingers. Penguins are pleasantly plump because their blubber keeps them warm. We think Santa stays warm because he is fat like a penguin and has blubber. Mrs. McNeal told us not to splash the water out but then she spilled all of the water out when the tub broke and Mr. Graham had to come and clean it up.
They are doing the same thing as the picture above.
In indoor recess, we built this big, block hotel with all the different colors of teddy bears in it sorted in a row.
This girl is working on one of her persuasive letters while sitting on one of our awesome chairs.
We are having a person talk about polar bears from the Columbus Zoo. We wrote what we needed to learn about polar bears in our journal. One way we can help them is by recycling. We can also plant trees, watch TV less, play computer games less, turn lights off, walk or bicycle more often, use recycled bags, and be a conservationist.
Polar bears weigh as much as twelve first graders. They are fat with small ears and small tails. They have big claws and big, sharp teeth. They like to play with toys. February 27th is National Polar Bear Day. On this day, turn your thermostat down 2 degrees.
This boy is holding a real polar bear claw. They didn't just pull it out when it was alive. It was from one that had already passed away.
She was so proud that she wrote a whole bunch of stuff about polar bears in her journal.
This sweet girl is holding up the book that we just finished! It was a reminder that we will be exchanging the Valentines that we've made for each other next Thursday afternoon. I am asking that each child make something at home in which to hold their Valentines. You and your child can be as creative as you wish or have time for. It can be as simple as decorating a bag or covering a shoebox or cereal box with paper. You can begin sending them in on Monday if you work on it this weekend.
This is the mountain of blankets that kids from our class collected to give to the homeless people.
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