We had a fantastic week full of wonderful new things learned, a new student, a terrific Spelling Bee and SO much more!
This Week:
Reading: Our focus was “Mental Image.” When we are reading, it is important to form images in our head from the words we are reading. Sometimes our mental image changes throughout the story. This week we read only half of a poem, drew a picture of what we saw in our mind, then we finished the poem and drew another picture to see how much our mental image changed.
This connected so well with our writing strategy of “Descriptive words.” We all took the word “GOOD” and we threw it out the window! Instead we thought of great words like “terrific, fantastic, exciting, and amazing!”
Math: We learned all about equivalent names for numbers. Just like people have different names such as, Ms. Turner, Sarah, Sarah Turner are all names for myself, so numbers have different names. You can use money, addition and subtraction facts, tally, base 10 blocks, domino's and so much more!
We also learned about Fact Family! A group of 3 numbers can go together like a family. With a dad, mom, and child number. :)
Bible: We got to learn the most fantastic story of David and Goliath. Wow! Goliath was was 9 foot tall Philistine soldier who was talking bad about the Israelites and God, and David, just a young boy, with God’s help, defeated the giant. We got to fight Goliath this week with spoons and pompoms!
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| See Goliath on the wall? :) |
David went on to win lots of battle for God, but Kind Saul became very jealous of David and David had to run and hide from Saul. Saul's own son, Jonathan, was best friend's with David and many times saved David's life. We talked about what a good friend does and made friendship bracelets. We each had a string and every student went around and put a knot in their classmates bracelet!
100's Day of School: As of Tuesday, we had been in school for 100 days! As a result, we had a 100's day party. We read a 100's day of school book, made a 100's days craft, and made a guess to how many times we could clap and write our name in 100 seconds!
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| Ms. Turner wrote her names 41 times in 100 seconds! |
Spelling Bee: CONGRATULATIONS and AMAZING JOB to the three Spelling Bee Contestants from 1.1. Each one of you did fantastic and I am so proud of you! It was so fun to see how many words you knew how to spell!
Next Week:
Spelling Words: soon, good, look, took, food, book, zoo, foot, cool, noon, many, he
Bible Memory: "Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends." John 15:13
Next Friday, we will celebrate Valentine's Day at the end of the day. If you would like to have your child give a Valentine's please make sure you provide one for everyone. If you would like the class list, please email me! Don't forget, we have 20 students in 1.1 now!
Feb 6th - Progress Reports will be emailed sometime this evening.
Feb 16th - President’s Day - NO SCHOOL!
Feb 28 - Bazaar - Stay tuned for more information soon. You can drop off your donations starting on MONDAY Feb 9 through Wednesday Feb 26. Please mark the donations with the tags provided. If you need more, please let me know!
Mar 2 - OCSI Holiday - No School!
Mar 6 - Student-led Conference
