28 March-April 3 2011
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Our school has been able to purchase the IXL subscription for another year. Thanks to their commendable efforts! Please continue the work.
Many thanks to the parent chaperones who volunteered to accompany our class to the Aviano Market and Casa Bianca for our 2nd dining experience. Yummy and .........what a day! The sun shone upon us the entire time. I was very glad to be dry and warm! The students displayed their best manners as guests in both locations. I was so proud of them........and, did I tell you how much I love your children? They've worked so hard this year, learned so much, and been working hard to display their best efforts in work and behavior the last few weeks. Way to go, Moms & Dads!
This week we'll work on our last story in Unit 4-TREASURES. Here are the skills we'll be working on:
Title: Henry & Mudge & Mrs. Hopper's House: our 1st beginning chapter book!
Author: Cynthia Rylant
Illustrator: Carollyn Bracken
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Comprehension Skill: Cause /Effect * Target Skill
Comprehension Strategy: Preview (look at pictures and events in story B4 and during reading!)
Study Skill: Alphabetical Order
Spelling/Phonics: suffixes -ly & -ful; oo as in moon.
Language/Vocabulary: Antonyms, otherwise known as opposites
Grammar: Adjectives that compare: -er, -est
Writing: Explanation
We'll also be preparing/reviewing for our summative assessment on all skills taught in Unit 4. It's another monumental assessment and it will show how they're doing in all areas of language arts, except for composition/written language. We'll be writing a persuasive letter, yes, a persuasive letter! More details to follow.
We'll also be preparing for our 3rd quarter Math Common Assessments covering skills such as: place value, measurement (time, linear, volume, and estimation), Problem solving using UPSL: understand, plan, solve, look back (check). We're also trying to get better at mental computation for addition and subtraction facts to 18. Many of the students are performing very well on facts up to 10 and so we're moving on.
Remember that Monday is a half day. I'm also asking that you return the permission slip and Euro to attend and/or chaperone our last Study Trip of the year to the farm at Paisano. We'll make pasta and have lunch at the restaurant on-site! I have to place all student names and adults coming on the trip into a database for security reasons. We depart @ 8:30 on Wednesday, 20 April and return NLT 2:15, just in time to board the buses. It's an amazing trip and there's a lot of exploring to do at the location.
Please return permission slip and Euro 9.50 in a zip-loc bag as soon as possible. I would like to complete the paperwork prior to Spring Break, or I will not be able to receive clearance to take the students. It must be done NLT 10 days prior to the trip! Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Have a wonderful week! Thanks for all you do!
Mrs. Petty
Friday, March 18, 2011
BOYS AND GIRLS!! MOM AND DADS!!! Tonight (Saturday) the moon will be a supermoon. It's the closer to the Earth that it's been in 18 years. It will be brighter and appear bigger. I hope you've taken a look, because it's absolutely beautiful. It's a real FULL MOON. I'm trying to see if I can spot the Lady in the MOON! Mrs. Petty
21-27 March 2011
TUESDAY, 22 March--Wear great walking shoes!!!
STUDY TRIP TO the AVIANO MARKET and lunch @ Casa Bianca
Depart the school NLT 10 a.m..
Oh,my! It's the end-ish of March already. The end of the 3rd quarter is nearing and we've accomplished a lot of learning, once again! Please be vigilant with continuing with the homework, reading, and incomplete 'packets' that go home. I'm impressed with the students who've finished them from week to week. Your assistance is to be commended. I am requiring for the directions to be read by the students now, so help them, only if needed.
I'm not certain if you've heard, but our school's IXL Math subscription has officially expired and currently there are no funds to renew. I'm just 'sick' about it, so just thought I'd let you know this information if you happen to be blocked from logging on.
The following activities will be included in our week's efforts at school:
STUDY TRIP to the Aviano Market (if weather cooperates)
Our walking trip will be cancelled if there is a downpour. Even the vendors don't show up when it's raining. Please be aware that if you're chaperoning, we'll depart from the school NLT 10:00 a.m. and begin the trek to the market, then depart from the little park next to the Market at 11:40. We need to arrive at Casa Bianca for lunch NLT 12 noon. Thanks to the following parent chaperones: Eaves, Case, DinoFrio, Frantz, Knight, Lovelace, Brown-Williams, and Young. We'll have a wonderful experience and enjoy the time learning about our Italian culture, outdoor market, and use our Italian we've learning when ordering our lunch and enjoying the small purchases some of us will make. If your child has spending money, they will need to have it in a plastic zip-loc bag and the chaperone will assist them in making their purchases while at the market. Thank you for your support!
READING FOR THE WEEK:
Book Title: Peter's Chair
Author: Ezra Jack Keats
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Comprehension Skill: Character, Setting, Plot
Comprehension Strategy: Story Structure
Study Skill: E-Mail!!!
Spelling/Phonics: Compound words & -ew,-ue, & -ui Long U
Language/Vocabulary: Using a Glossary (Math glossary and Unit 4 Glossary)
Grammar: Adjectives for How Many
Writing: Facts
Spelling Words: Please visit Sampson's Classroom for practice!!!!
1. backpack
2. outside
3. baseball
4. herself
5. flashlight
6. bluebird
7. lunchbox
8. suitcase
9. inside
10. brainstorm
11. picture
12. remember
Math:
Working on timed addition and subtraction drills (2 minutes/50 problems)
Chapters 17 & 18
Addition and Subtraction to 18
Repeated Addition (preliminary to multiplication!)
Reviewing: Place Value!!!
Once again, thank you for all your involvement.
Before we know it, you'll be receiving our 3rd quarter Report Card!
Have a wonderful week!
21-27 March 2011
TUESDAY, 22 March--Wear great walking shoes!!!
STUDY TRIP TO the AVIANO MARKET and lunch @ Casa Bianca
Depart the school NLT 10 a.m..
Oh,my! It's the end-ish of March already. The end of the 3rd quarter is nearing and we've accomplished a lot of learning, once again! Please be vigilant with continuing with the homework, reading, and incomplete 'packets' that go home. I'm impressed with the students who've finished them from week to week. Your assistance is to be commended. I am requiring for the directions to be read by the students now, so help them, only if needed.
I'm not certain if you've heard, but our school's IXL Math subscription has officially expired and currently there are no funds to renew. I'm just 'sick' about it, so just thought I'd let you know this information if you happen to be blocked from logging on.
The following activities will be included in our week's efforts at school:
STUDY TRIP to the Aviano Market (if weather cooperates)
Our walking trip will be cancelled if there is a downpour. Even the vendors don't show up when it's raining. Please be aware that if you're chaperoning, we'll depart from the school NLT 10:00 a.m. and begin the trek to the market, then depart from the little park next to the Market at 11:40. We need to arrive at Casa Bianca for lunch NLT 12 noon. Thanks to the following parent chaperones: Eaves, Case, DinoFrio, Frantz, Knight, Lovelace, Brown-Williams, and Young. We'll have a wonderful experience and enjoy the time learning about our Italian culture, outdoor market, and use our Italian we've learning when ordering our lunch and enjoying the small purchases some of us will make. If your child has spending money, they will need to have it in a plastic zip-loc bag and the chaperone will assist them in making their purchases while at the market. Thank you for your support!
READING FOR THE WEEK:
Book Title: Peter's Chair
Author: Ezra Jack Keats
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Comprehension Skill: Character, Setting, Plot
Comprehension Strategy: Story Structure
Study Skill: E-Mail!!!
Spelling/Phonics: Compound words & -ew,-ue, & -ui Long U
Language/Vocabulary: Using a Glossary (Math glossary and Unit 4 Glossary)
Grammar: Adjectives for How Many
Writing: Facts
Spelling Words: Please visit Sampson's Classroom for practice!!!!
1. backpack
2. outside
3. baseball
4. herself
5. flashlight
6. bluebird
7. lunchbox
8. suitcase
9. inside
10. brainstorm
11. picture
12. remember
Math:
Working on timed addition and subtraction drills (2 minutes/50 problems)
Chapters 17 & 18
Addition and Subtraction to 18
Repeated Addition (preliminary to multiplication!)
Reviewing: Place Value!!!
Once again, thank you for all your involvement.
Before we know it, you'll be receiving our 3rd quarter Report Card!
Have a wonderful week!
Monday, March 14, 2011
14-20 March 2011
Welcome Back!
I have all but 3 student's permission slips and 6 Euro for the Study Trip next TUESDAY to the Aviano Market and Casa Bianca for lunch. Thank you for all the volunteer chaperones who will accompany us. We should have a great time and we're, of course, hoping for a sunshiny day! If it is raining so hard that we can't walk safely, the trip will cancelled and not rescheduled. Please excuse the error in my saying Wednesday! There is NO Aviano Market on that DAY. It's Tuesday, of course. We'll depart from the school No Later Than 10:00, so join us a bit before that. Thanks, once again for sending in the required permission and Euro.
A few parents have asked if they are able to bring a sibling along. It is school policy that you are not to have any other children other than those in our class. This has to do with a supervisory responsibility to those who have been given signed parent permission, and those not involved in AES enrollment are not allowed to accompany us. Sorry about that.
Our week is filled with much learning, once again, which includes:
Story Selection: The Lady in the Moon
Author: Lily Wong Fillmore
Illustrator: Lin Wang
Skills:
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Comprehension Skill: Reality/fantasy
Comprehension Strategy: Monitor/Fix-up
Study Skill: Glossary
Spelling/Phonics: -ie & -igh (Long I) and Kn /n/ & wr /r/ beginning sounds
Language/Vocabulary: Homophones: Words that sound the same, but have different meanings: ex: sea/see; tea/tee, etc.
Grammar: Adjectives for What Kind
Writing: Poster
Math:
We're reviewing time and calendar. We'll take our chapter test by Friday and continue on with others that have been untested. Today we learned about the 60 minutes in 5 minute increments and how the short hour hand works. The students did a great job with this task. Your help at home will be such a great assistance. The more practice they have reading an analog clock the better they'll be at understanding time. Thank you so much.
Other:
We're looking forward to our field trip and continued preparation occurs each day for our re-accredation visit with the U.S. Advance Ed team that will be visiting our school during the first week of May. This week, the 3rd-5th graders are taking their annual standardized test: Terra Nova. We're being extremely considerate of the students that are being tested and are on our best, and most quiet behaviors since the beginning of the year.
I am inviting you to come by and pick up the castles. I am keeping a few for display in our classroom. Consider it a problem to me only, in that I just can't let them ALL go!
Our next family/home project will be somewhat simpler and will be coming home mid-week. The instructions/due date and particulars will be attached.
Thanks for all your continued efforts. We must continue to work together for the good of your child. Let's increase the reading and responses in their logs, pay attention to how they 'sound' when they read and ask questions about what they're thinking during and after they read.
The homework web-sites are also a great place to strengthen your child's academic work. Please use the links to help with mastery of all first grade benchmarks in Reading, Writing, Math and other skills.
Have a great week:
Here are this week's spelling words: (have fun with this week's words on Sampson's Classroom links)
1. lie
2. tie*
3. high*
4. might
5. right
6. night*
7. bright
8. light*
9. pie
10. tight
11. above*
12. laugh*
*Starred words are also in the story selection: The Lady in the Moon
Mrs. Petty
Welcome Back!
I have all but 3 student's permission slips and 6 Euro for the Study Trip next TUESDAY to the Aviano Market and Casa Bianca for lunch. Thank you for all the volunteer chaperones who will accompany us. We should have a great time and we're, of course, hoping for a sunshiny day! If it is raining so hard that we can't walk safely, the trip will cancelled and not rescheduled. Please excuse the error in my saying Wednesday! There is NO Aviano Market on that DAY. It's Tuesday, of course. We'll depart from the school No Later Than 10:00, so join us a bit before that. Thanks, once again for sending in the required permission and Euro.
A few parents have asked if they are able to bring a sibling along. It is school policy that you are not to have any other children other than those in our class. This has to do with a supervisory responsibility to those who have been given signed parent permission, and those not involved in AES enrollment are not allowed to accompany us. Sorry about that.
Our week is filled with much learning, once again, which includes:
Story Selection: The Lady in the Moon
Author: Lily Wong Fillmore
Illustrator: Lin Wang
Skills:
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Comprehension Skill: Reality/fantasy
Comprehension Strategy: Monitor/Fix-up
Study Skill: Glossary
Spelling/Phonics: -ie & -igh (Long I) and Kn /n/ & wr /r/ beginning sounds
Language/Vocabulary: Homophones: Words that sound the same, but have different meanings: ex: sea/see; tea/tee, etc.
Grammar: Adjectives for What Kind
Writing: Poster
Math:
We're reviewing time and calendar. We'll take our chapter test by Friday and continue on with others that have been untested. Today we learned about the 60 minutes in 5 minute increments and how the short hour hand works. The students did a great job with this task. Your help at home will be such a great assistance. The more practice they have reading an analog clock the better they'll be at understanding time. Thank you so much.
Other:
We're looking forward to our field trip and continued preparation occurs each day for our re-accredation visit with the U.S. Advance Ed team that will be visiting our school during the first week of May. This week, the 3rd-5th graders are taking their annual standardized test: Terra Nova. We're being extremely considerate of the students that are being tested and are on our best, and most quiet behaviors since the beginning of the year.
I am inviting you to come by and pick up the castles. I am keeping a few for display in our classroom. Consider it a problem to me only, in that I just can't let them ALL go!
Our next family/home project will be somewhat simpler and will be coming home mid-week. The instructions/due date and particulars will be attached.
Thanks for all your continued efforts. We must continue to work together for the good of your child. Let's increase the reading and responses in their logs, pay attention to how they 'sound' when they read and ask questions about what they're thinking during and after they read.
The homework web-sites are also a great place to strengthen your child's academic work. Please use the links to help with mastery of all first grade benchmarks in Reading, Writing, Math and other skills.
Have a great week:
Here are this week's spelling words: (have fun with this week's words on Sampson's Classroom links)
1. lie
2. tie*
3. high*
4. might
5. right
6. night*
7. bright
8. light*
9. pie
10. tight
11. above*
12. laugh*
*Starred words are also in the story selection: The Lady in the Moon
Mrs. Petty
Saturday, March 05, 2011
7-13 March 2011
Welcome Back! Assignment: Bring a rock (big, medium-sized, or little, but interesting) to school this week.
We've begun our Read Across America goal and the reading logs for this special event were sent home on Tuesday in their blue homework folder. If you haven't already, please place and KEEP them in their READING BAG. I will be totalling all of their individual minutes with a class grand total, to see if we met our reading goal as a class each week! We had a total of 36 Reading Counts added to our class total which is 200 points! These additional points will be added to the students cumulative total who earned them, and, in turn, added to the class total as well. I'm very pleased that the students have made the transition to the Guided Reading library with ease. Once again, they are selecting their own books and seem to approach the tasks with confidence.
Our Reading Street Story Selection this week is:
Mr. Bones: Dinosaur Hunter. This story is certain to add interest to our science-based learning for the week. The Language Arts skills addressed this week are:
Genre: Biography The life of a famous person is retold-
Comprehension Skill: Author's Purpose
Comprehension Strategy: Monitor/Fix-Up while reading new text
Study Skill: Bar Graph
Spelling/Phonics: Long O, spelled -oa & -ow/3 letter blends: scr, shr, spl, spr, str, & thr
Language/Vocabulary: synonyms (2 different words that have similar meanings
Grammar: Adjectives for sizes
Writing: Reasons
We'll also be working on Writer's Workshop to complete the Unit 3 Benchmark writing assignment: Writing a Descriptive Paragraph about nature. Yes, 1st graders are expected to write a minimum of 3-5 sentences about a topic. You may want to discuss this with your child and 'get them thinking' about a nature-themed topic.
We've just finished our 2nd round of Math Lab with Ms. Breault. The students took their post test on the following topics covered during the last 3 weeks: Measurement (linear), Time (hour and 1/2 hour), Fractions,
Data and Addition and Subtraction. We've also begun our timed addition and subtraction fact drills. Their working hard and this should help them practice their strategies of counting up, counting back, locating the greater number and counting up to add and find the sum, and counting back to find the difference. The use of IXL and the number folders that we work on in class have a direct relationsihp to improvement on these skills. Please allow your child to participate on-line with IXL. Thank you.
I haven't been able to let the castles go home yet. They are absolutely amazing and your work and effort on the family/home project. Our next project will be easier and you'll be seeing it very soon. We hope to have these back and on display before spring break.
Thank you for all your continued support. Please send in your permission slip and Euro for the next Study Trip to the Aviano Market and Casa Bianca for lunch. These are due NO LATER THAN this Friday the 11th of March. Thank you!
Mrs. P
Welcome Back! Assignment: Bring a rock (big, medium-sized, or little, but interesting) to school this week.
We've begun our Read Across America goal and the reading logs for this special event were sent home on Tuesday in their blue homework folder. If you haven't already, please place and KEEP them in their READING BAG. I will be totalling all of their individual minutes with a class grand total, to see if we met our reading goal as a class each week! We had a total of 36 Reading Counts added to our class total which is 200 points! These additional points will be added to the students cumulative total who earned them, and, in turn, added to the class total as well. I'm very pleased that the students have made the transition to the Guided Reading library with ease. Once again, they are selecting their own books and seem to approach the tasks with confidence.
Our Reading Street Story Selection this week is:
Mr. Bones: Dinosaur Hunter. This story is certain to add interest to our science-based learning for the week. The Language Arts skills addressed this week are:
Genre: Biography The life of a famous person is retold-
Comprehension Skill: Author's Purpose
Comprehension Strategy: Monitor/Fix-Up while reading new text
Study Skill: Bar Graph
Spelling/Phonics: Long O, spelled -oa & -ow/3 letter blends: scr, shr, spl, spr, str, & thr
Language/Vocabulary: synonyms (2 different words that have similar meanings
Grammar: Adjectives for sizes
Writing: Reasons
We'll also be working on Writer's Workshop to complete the Unit 3 Benchmark writing assignment: Writing a Descriptive Paragraph about nature. Yes, 1st graders are expected to write a minimum of 3-5 sentences about a topic. You may want to discuss this with your child and 'get them thinking' about a nature-themed topic.
We've just finished our 2nd round of Math Lab with Ms. Breault. The students took their post test on the following topics covered during the last 3 weeks: Measurement (linear), Time (hour and 1/2 hour), Fractions,
Data and Addition and Subtraction. We've also begun our timed addition and subtraction fact drills. Their working hard and this should help them practice their strategies of counting up, counting back, locating the greater number and counting up to add and find the sum, and counting back to find the difference. The use of IXL and the number folders that we work on in class have a direct relationsihp to improvement on these skills. Please allow your child to participate on-line with IXL. Thank you.
I haven't been able to let the castles go home yet. They are absolutely amazing and your work and effort on the family/home project. Our next project will be easier and you'll be seeing it very soon. We hope to have these back and on display before spring break.
Thank you for all your continued support. Please send in your permission slip and Euro for the next Study Trip to the Aviano Market and Casa Bianca for lunch. These are due NO LATER THAN this Friday the 11th of March. Thank you!
Mrs. P
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