Thank you so much for all of your sweet words! It touched my heart to know so many of you were sending your thoughts to me and my family these past couple days. The days were tough but we’re getting through it!
Tomorrow is picture day!
Mrs. Thibodeau, our guidance counselor, will be coming to our classroom tomorrow to talk with us about our district’s core values, I CARE! With the help of her friend George, the monkey, we will focus on how we care for ourselves, care for others, and core for our school. We love when Mrs. Thibodeau comes to visit!
Please remember that we are a peanut safe school and our classroom is a peanut and nut free classroom as well as a cheesy powdered snack free classroom. Please keep these snacks as at-home snacks! If you need a list of snack suggestions, please let me know! I would be happy to send home some allergy-safe alternatives that are welcome in our classroom! Thank you for helping us keep our Russell School students safe!
Our special schedule:
Monday: P.E. Tuesday: Music Wednesday: Art Thursday: Spanish Friday: Library
CLASSROOM WISHLIST: It would be greatly appreciated if any of you would be willing and able to donate some allergy-safe snacks for the classroom. These snacks would be available to any student who may have forgotten their snack at home that day. We would love to have some ROLD GOLD pretzels or NABISCO graham crackers!
THIS WEEK:
Phonics: This week, we are working with the short and long /a/ sound. Here are our focus words: bag, cap, ham, bake, ate, mad, back, cape, made, and rake. We loved meeting with our friend “magic e” again! Here is a great video that I plan to show the students this week.
Vocabulary: Our new words are: safe, flames, tell, forest, and heat. We defined these words and built connections to them so they are easier to remember. Then, we searched for them in the short stories “Firehouse Friendships” and “ A Special Bear”.
Comprehension: We are focusing on identifying the main idea and supporting details. The main idea of a story is what the story is mostly about. The supporting details give us more information! We practiced this skill while we read Fighting the Fire. What a great story to help us connect with the fire safety presentation that will be coming to school soon!
Grammar: This week we are working with the two parts of a sentence: the subject and the predicate. The subject tells who or what the story is about. The predicate tells more about the subject. For example, in the following sentence:
“Firefighters help save people.”
Firefighters are the subject, since that is WHO the sentence is about.
Writing: We will be writing a description and who better to describe than our best friends! In our description, we’ll include information about our friends such as who they are, how we met them, what we like to do together, and our feelings about them! Here is my model description:
My best friend Miko lives in Virginia. That’s not where she has always lived, though! We grew up together in a small town called Chino Hills in California. That’s where we met. She is always smiling and gives the best hugs! One of our favorite things to do together was to be captains of our high school swim team. We loved swimming with our team and cheering them on every step of the way! I’m so glad I met Miko. She is the best!
Math: We are continuing our focus on graphs! We will be reading and interpreting bar graphs, pictographs, and line plots. We are explaining the data we see using words like most, least, more than, and less than. We’ll also be comparing the data we see in order to be able to tell how many more or how many less a particular category will have. Fingers crossed we’ll be able to start planning our own individual survey questions this week!
Social Studies: The Cumberland Fair was a great kickoff for some of our social studies curriculum. We were able to see so much of our community’s history, including a lot of the old tools! We watched a video called Long Ago, Yesterday, and Today where they compared a lot of the tools we use now to the tools we used many years ago. It was so exciting to see how things have changed over the years. Then, we worked on two different activities. First, we labeled pictures of different modes of transportation with either “now” or “then”. Next, we matched pictures of old tools to the tool we use today to do the same job. For example, we matched an old typewriter to a new computer.
Science: Together, we went on an adventure outside! We went on a plant scavenger hunt. Looking around our playground, we had to find the following things:
-tallest plant -two kinds of grasses -two flowers -two seeds -something made from plants -two leaves -a plant that has yellow on it -a plant that has red on it
Read Aloud: We are still loved the world of Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White. We love using our barn books to draw a picture of what we are visualizing during the chapter that day, writing a sentence to summarize the chapter, collecting characters, and tuning into interesting words!
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