This week is Healthy Choices Week! All week long, Russell School will be learning more about making healthy choices in our day-to-day lives. During our P.E. time, Team Howard visited three different stations: exercise, healthy food choices, and cleanliness. When Mrs. Thibodeau comes to visit us again, we will focus on healthy choices as well.
To go along with healthy choices, Team Howard will be doing a healthy snack tally. For each healthy snack our team eats during snack time, we’ll add a tally to the chart. If we earn 50 tallies by the end of the week, we’ll earn an extra recess!
Want more information about healthy choices? Here a few links just for you from the 5210 initiative website. Visit letsgo.org for more information.
On Thursday, Paula Letiecq and Calvin Vallaincourt will visit the second graders! Paula and Calvin are the district’s outdoor education gurus and we are so excited to work with them! The second grade teachers had a phenomenal time planning our science units with them. Paula and Calvin provided us with a ton of activities that were not only fun but got us moving as well! Each month, Paula and Calvin will visit the second graders and lead an energetic and fun science activity. The month of January will focus on matter.
Apologies go out to all of the friends and family members that said they would participate in our Flat Stanley project. I thought I had sent out all of our flat kids when I sent out my personal holiday cards to friends and family a few weeks ago, but sadly I was mistaken. With such a big stack in my hand, I didn’t even check my pile before dropping them off at the post office. In fact, our flat kids had been sitting quite cozily at my parents’ house in New Hampshire for the past couple of weeks. I must have left them there when I was getting all of my mail organized! They are in the mail now and should arrive shortly to everyone. Please be sure to thank your friends and family again for their patience and participation.
This week in...
Phonics: We will work with the long /u/ sound with the spelling patterns “u” and “u_e”. Here are our focus words: mule, bugle, fuse, use, flute, June, music, duke, tune, and dune. Spelling: The month of January will focus on units 13-16. This week, we will focus on unit 13. Here are the words: called, just, where, most, and know.
Vocabulary: Our new words are: tips, obeys, attention, accident, enormous, and buddy. We’ll define these words and build connections to them. Then, we’ll search for them in the short story called “Safety and School” by Brian Sullivan.
Comprehension: We will practice using the illustrations. Using the illustrations can give us clues to better understand the story. We’ll practice this skill while we read Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann.
Grammar: We’ll work with present-tense verbs. Present-tense verbs tell about actions that happen now. Adding an -s or -es to a present-tense verb will tell us what one person or thing is doing. Here are some examples that we will work with: stop, stand, wait, say, blink, cross, or play. If we wanted to change these verbs so they make sense for one person, we would add an -s or -es. For example, instead of: “The girls stand in line.” We might say, “The girl stands in line” instead.
Writing: This week, we’ll practice our persuasive skills again. Here is the prompt Team Howard will be getting:
Winter has come, snow is falling, and after waking up, you see that snow is covering the roads. Should school be closed due to inclement weather or not? Write a letter to our principal or school board stating your opinion.
In their writing, Team Howard will be asked to:
-state their opinion -give reasons to support their opinion -use linking words like “because” or “also” -provide a concluding statement -put capitals and lowercase letters where they belong -use correct ending punctuation -use neat handwriting
Math: We’ll use this week to review some of the place value games we introduced before vacation. These games help us practice valuable skills that we will need in our next unit on place value. In our games, we’ll practice using the hundreds chart and a number line. We’ll review the ones, tens, and hundreds place. We’ll also practicing adding number strings using tools like a calculator or a number line but also in our heads.
We’ll also continue practice with money and time. During our money goal time, students will practice identifying coins by name and value. They will also practice adding coins up to $1.00. During our time goal time, students will practice reading and writing time to the nearest five minutes. We’ll also review a.m. and p.m.
Social Studies: Since we have been out of school for an extended amount of time, we’ll review or classroom vision and our code of cooperation. We’ll ask ourselves, “does this still fit our team?” If it does, we’ll review and role play. If not, we’ll work together to create a new vision and code of cooperation that fits our team now.
Soon, we’ll be receiving our flat kids back in the mail! That means we need to practice our map skills. This week, we’ll practice several skills. We’ll introduce what globes and maps are. We’ll also practice with a compass rose. We’ll learn what a compass rose is and also the directions it represents. We’ll learn about latitude and longitude lines. Finally, we’ll learn about continents and oceans.
Here is a song we’ll use to help us remember the seven continents. Check it out!
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