News From Kindergarten – Miss Cindy
We will be celebrating Chinese New Year this week with a lot of differentactivities within the Literacy, Science, Math, Art and Social Studieskindergarten curriculums. On Monday, the children saw a Chinese LionDance in the afternoon and learned about the history and Traditions ofChinese New Year. Writing chinese numbers, creating New Year banners,using chopsticks, eating chinese sesame candy, creating masks and makingtangram pictures are other activities students continue to work on. Inwriting, the words GO, LOOK and FOR were put on the high frequencyword rings to use in daily writing. The non-fiction book, Seeds, is theliterary focus this week. There is no school this Friday, since it is aTeacher Professional Development Day.
News from Kindergarten - Teacher Dana
We have been having a lot of fun this week learning about Chinese NewYear this week. We learned that cleaning your house, wearing new clothesand getting hair cuts brings good luck in the new year. Today we madelucky Dragons, saw a Lion Dance, and read lots of stories about the lunarnew year. It was a fun day!
Norah is for the most part teaching solo now. I am in and out all daylong checking on things, doing assessments, working with kids individuallyand doing small group instruction. It is going very well.
Valentines day is coming up. We will exchange valentines on the 13th. Iwill send home a class list next week with first names. We will make bagson the day and have a friendship party at the end of the day andexchange the cards. I try to keep the sweets to a minimum so I would liketo just have the party be an exchange. On that day we are also going tohave a field trip to The Children’s Museum. We will return in time toexchange Valentines.Thank you for sending in your items to put in our mosaic mirror. We willbe assembling it next Friday, so if you haven’t yet send in your itemplease do so. We are also asking each family for a 2.00 contribution tocover the cost of the materials. Please send that in an envelope markedwith your child’s name.
News from Kindergarten - Miss Sarah
Gung Hey Fat Choy! Happy Chinese New Year! We have been learning alot about this important Asian holiday and even got to see an incredibleassembly featuring an amazing dragon and performance on Monday. Wealso learned about what we can do to Reuse! Reduce! and Recycle! andhopefully lesson our carbon footprint. A big thank you to Carolyn Sweet,Oona Baker, and Mark and Rebecca Perin for organizing our classroom artproject for the auction! They are planning an incredible piece, which issure to make a lasting treasure for some lucky bidder. We are asking eachfamily to donate 3.00 to make this project happen. Please drop it off withme, or send in your child’s folder. Thanks! Speaking of the auction, I hopethat you all will plan to attend. It is a great evening and lots of fun.Tickets are on sale in the office and will only be $20.00 for another week.I will be auctioning off some fun activities and woule love to see youthere! Thank you for all your support. We are very lucky to now have 2volunteers every day, but Tuesday, during our worktime centers. If any ofyou might be available for an hour, it makes a big difference in the levelof work that is completed and allows me to meet with every child to focuson their reading skills. Sign-up is outside the door.
Classroom Notes from First Grade - Mrs. Pechette
Next Tuesday, February 3rd, our class will be having an Author’s Party.This will be a celebration to share their successfully published winter,friendship books. Please join us in the classroom at 2:15 for authorreadings and light refreshments. As we move into February we’ll continueto learn about our new president and presidential history. Many of thechildren are eager to read and learn about President Obama. Look in thehallway for the ideas that have been generated from the inaugural week.
Classroom Notes from First Grade - Mrs. Logue
On Monday we learned more about Asian Lunar New year and werehonored to see a traditional Lion Dance Performance to usher in the NewYear of the Ox. This week we will be learning about this big celebrationwhich takes place in many Asian communities through books and poems,samples of traditional celebratory foods and by creating crafts thatreflect the significance of this time of year for so many around the worldand in our school as well! In literacy studies; I will also be introducingcompound words and new little books to reading groups as well as newmath work while refreshing the students understanding of numbers 1-100,counting by 10s and 5s, number games and problem solving. We will alsobe checking in on our quickly growing bulbs that we planted several weeksago. The students are measuring and sketching the buds and finding allsorts of flora and fauna in the compost that Ms. Julia our Outdoor CenterMentor had us plan our bulbs in! Fun for all, especially with our new handheld micro scopes! Keep up the great work with the take home books. Itmakes all the difference! abuckley@pps.k12.or.us
Classroom Notes from Second Grade - Ms. Leake
Gung Hay Fat Choy!! (Happy New Year) This is the last of ourCelebrations of Light. This week we looked at the symbols for this lunarFestival. We learned about the traditions that happen during the 15 daysof celebration. We read folk tales and informational stories about theChinese culture. We enjoyed the Lion Dance performed by Lara andWally’s Kung Fu Club. Back in the classroom, we made dragons and lightup the night sky with our glittery fireworks.In Writing, we began our focus on ‘All Abouts’. We brainstormed a list ofthings we knew at least five facts about. In the coming lessons, we willlearn how to make and label diagrams, write headings for our topic ofinterest, and put together a table of contents to organize our ideas.During independent writing times, we continue to write letters to friendsand family and share our stories in the format of the personal narratives.Next week we return to our Weather unit when we learn about the WaterCycle and talk about different kinds of precipitation. Don’t forget to turnin your wind journals and wind chimes.
Classroom Notes from Second Grade = Ms. Swan
Ask your child about the incredible Lion Dance we saw today at anassembly in honor of Chinese New Year! Congratulations to our studentswho also performed in a piece: Aiden, Ashton, Elizabeth, Gabe and Niki.Another assembly brought home the important message of Reduce~Re-use~Recycle! Our class had many ideas of how we can all do our part.Because of their excellent assembly behavior, each student earned acertificate to be placed in the container for our Friday drawings. Theyeach showed that they could behave responsibly, respectfully and safelyduring the assemblies.Huge thank you’s to the families of Aiden, Ashton, Gabe and Kellsy foreach gifting us with a new book from the Book Fair that will be a sure-firehit with our class! That is so very kind and generous of you.Tuesday marks our first day of Drama class with Ms. Tori. We have aTuesday/Thursday group and a Wednesday/Friday group. Each sessionlasts an hour. At the end of their work, the class will put on a Reader’sTheatre for an audience. The scheduled date is February 26th.Portland Public Schools just delivered new handwriting materials. Thislast week, we have been working in the D’Nealian method, so that wehave uniformity across the grades. For a capital “A,” you may hear yourchild saying, “Top start, slant left, same start, slant right, middle cross.”So far, this method has really improved handwriting on the worksheets.Now, we just need to have a strong carry over to our regular writtenwork. =-)
Chinese New Year Celebration...
Classroom Notes from Ms. Ross Third Grade - Room 17
Congratulations to Ms. Tori Padelford and the third grade classes! Theteachers and parents really enjoyed the Reader’s Theater performance. Itwas wonderful to see and hear the students rise to the occasion.The Scott Foresman Reading Assessments are completed, and Mrs.Jamesbarry, reading support teacher, and I are evaluating the results. Thedata is being used to refocus literacy instruction. Later in February thestudents will take the first of the Oregon State reading and mathassessments. The students have the opportunity to retake the state teststhree times if needed.In math, the students are now working on activities to help themunderstand probability. While we use language such as chance or likely,probability is the mathematical area of statistics which is based clearly onpredictable numbers and outcomes.Most of the students will be finished with their character analysis papersthis week. Parents can help students become better writers byencouraging neat handwriting, proper spelling, and correct punctuation.We were sad to say good-bye to Joseph Campbell. We wished him the bestof luck with his next class, and we thanked him for all of his hard workand support with our third grade class.
NEWS FROM MS. DAVIS’ AND MS. V’S CLASS, RM 16
Gung Hay Fat Choy! We started the week off by celebrating the ChineseNew Year with a spectacular Lion Dance done by the Kung Fu Academy.The Lion Dance is a 2000 year-old tradition that is most often preformedduring the Chinese Lunar New Year. The children that participate in KungFu Club did a short on stage performance of some Kung Fu moves at theend of the Lion Dance. I always enjoying having an opportunity to see
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