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We will be having a WMU intern joining us for the second semester. Her name is Katelyn Hiscock and she starts on Monday, January 11th. I always find it very beneficial to have an intern in the room. It allows more one-on-one time with students and we can also take advantage of small groups during W.I.N. time. She will just be observing the classroom routines for the first couple of weeks before she starts teaching any subjects. I will have her send out a letter introducing herself to everyone shortly.
We have a field trip coming up on Wednesday, January 20th. We will be going to see a dance concert called Alchemia that will be performed by Momix. We will be traveling to Miller Auditorium. We will leave Lake Center around 9 and return around 12. We will miss our time in the cafeteria that day so we'll be eating lunch in our room. Please make sure everyone brings their own lunch on that day or orders a sack lunch from the cafeteria.
Winter is Here!
Please make sure to send your child every day with a hat, boots, gloves, warm winter coat, and snow pants. We will be going outside as much as possible. We do not have a ton of extra items in the office to borrow and each time a coat or pants are borrowed, we have to take them home to wash.
Student council food drive will take place on Jan. 11-15. Items from this food drive will be donated to 12 Baskets. The top class will receive a reward from the student council. More information to be sent home when we return from break.
This week we’ll ask, “How do you know when
story ideas are important?” We’ll read the
biography of Helen Keller, who learned how
to communicate with help from her devoted
teacher. And we’ll learn about other ways to
communicate in the informational text Talking
Tools.
Target Vocabulary: curious, imitated,
knowledge, motion, silence, illness,
darkness, behavior
Phonics Skills: Words with long o (o,
oa, ow) [open, coat, bow]
Vocabulary Strategy: Suffix -ly (means
“in a certain way”)
Comprehension Skill: Main ideas and
details—tell important ideas and details
about a topic
Comprehension Strategy: Summarize—
stop to tell important ideas as you read
Lesson 19
Objective: Relate manipulative representations to a written method.
Lesson 20
Objective: Use math drawings to represent additions with up to two
compositions and relate drawings to a written method.
Lesson 21
Objective: Use math drawings to represent additions with up to two
compositions and relate drawings to a written method.
Lesson 22
Objective: Solve additions with up to four addends with totals within 200
with and without two compositions of larger units.
Maps
Over the next few weeks we will be studying map skills. Students will organize information to make and interpret simple maps of their local surroundings, use cardinal directions to locate places on a map, and use map keys to locate important features on a map. This week we played a few games involving the cardinal directions and everyone made a compass rose.
