Newsletter Updates for the Week of January 22nd

DATES TO REMEMBER:

-Mon., January 22nd—Dibels Testing

-Tues., January 23rd—NWEA Testing—Math

-Fri., January 26th—Report Cards Home

-Fri., Feb. 2nd—Homecoming Game

-Wed., Feb. 14th—Valentine’s Party—pm

-Thurs., Feb 15th—K JR4H—10:00-11:00

-Fri., Feb. 16th—No School—Professional Dev.

-Mon., Feb 19th—No School—President’s Day

-Thurs., Feb 22nd—1/2 day—PTC 4:00-8:00

-Fri., Feb 23rd—Dental Health Presentation

STUDENT OF THE WEEK:  

Our student of the week is Adrian Paxtor Vasquez.  Adrian likes to play outside and watch cartoons. His favorite movie to watch is Lego Ninjago and his favorite food is ice cream. This year Adrian wants to learn all of his letters and sounds so that he can read and write—which he is doing! He is also going to have a little baby sister arriving soon! Congratulations to Adrian on being our Student of the Week!

SLEDDING PARTY: 

Hopefully we can rebuild a nice snow base on the playground and reschedule our sledding party. We’ll just have to wait and see what the weather has in store:)

REPORT CARDS: 

Report cards will be coming home this Friday. As you look over your child’s report card remember that anything with a 3 is a skill that they need to work on, also be sure to look ahead to what their upcoming goals are for March. If you have any questions or concerns regarding your child’s progress, please feel free to contact me. Students will be completing their DIBELS testing this week as well as finishing up their NWEA testing, so I’ll be sharing these results with you a little later.

READING FOLDERS: 

I’ve completed a running record with each student to determine their independent level—which you will find on their report card. This week we will begin Take Home Reading Folders. The books they are bringing home are at their instructional level—which may be a little challenging, so they may need some adult guidance and support. There will be an informational letter that explains how to make the best reading routines at home, as well as other materials for your child to practice building their skills at home—sightwords, abc chart, numbers, nonsense words, Raz-Kids log in card, etc. Please be sure to fill out the Reading Log and send back the folder, book, and all the materials, so that they can select a new book to bring home. Students will bring their reading folders home 2-3 times a week.

RAZ-KIDS:

Raz-Kids is a fabulous resource for students to practice reading ‘good-fit’ books; since the school generously pays for the subscription, it is free to our families. As they read books, they will move up levels. An important rule that I teach the students is that they have to listen to the book twice, then read it independently twice, and finally take the quiz—we call it the ‘5 finger rule’—Listen, Listen, Read, Read, Quiz (for those on levels with quizzes).  Also, as an incentive, they earn stars to build their rocket ship and robot. I don’t let them spend their stars at school, BUT this is something they CAN do at home with the stars they have earned.  If you have any issues logging in or navigating the site/app at home, please let me know.

SCIENCE & SOCIAL STUDIES:

This week we will continue our Science Unit on Forces & Motion as we investigate position, direction, and simple machines. Our character trait for this month is Integrity.

MATH: 

This week we will play several games involving teen numbers, practice our problem-solving skills as we use different strategies to solve number stories, and learn about the equal symbol.

WRITING:

We will complete a pattern book that has a question and answer sentence structure and complete a journal page about motion.

Please send in an empty cereal box so that we can begin preparing for Valentine’s Day and be sure to return your library book on or before Friday:)