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Dates to Remember
Jan. 17 End of Semester, ½ Day
Jan. 22 Good Touch/Bad Touch Lesson
Jan. 23 Progress Reports available online
Feb. 14 Valentine Party
Feb. 17 No School/Winter Break
What’s New:
On the website:
*This week’s newsletter
*Calendar
*Tradition Day Photos
*Holiday Party Photos
*Sweater Day Photos
Special Notes:
*Needed: We are in need of snacks
and disinfecting wipes!!
*Valentine Party: Our Valentine Party
will be on Friday, Feb. 14 from 12:45
To 2:00. Mrs. Scholten is in charge.
She has the list and will be contacting
those who signed up! I will send home
a class list closer to the end of the
month for students to use to do their
Valentines!
*Good Touch/Bad Touch Lesson: We
are covering safety items in our health
lessons this week. The Children’s
Advocacy Center will be preventing
A lesson on “good touch/bad touch”
on Wednesday morning. A letter is
in your child’s Friday Folder about
this lesson! It is very age appropriate
and well done. If you have questions
please let me know.
Webpage: msdevinesclass.com January 17, 2020
Reading/Language Arts
In Language Arts our learning targets this week have included:
*review of year learning so far!
*Long vowel sound made by u_e, and e_e, like mule & these.
* “ed” ending sounds. It can sound like “t” in jumped, liked “d” in poured, or
like “ed” in twisted
*Sight word review
*blending sounds
* SPELLING is going well! We continue to practice in some way every day!
*recognizing singular and plural. We make a plural by adding “s” to the end of
the word.
*author’s purpose – We are really looking at why authors write about a topic
and about why they include certain elements (for example: a rainy day)
In writing this week first wrote to a source. This means we had a question
and we had to answer it citing text evidence from a reading source. We wrote
about how the triceratops protect themselves from T-Rex. SECONDLY, we
began a formal letter. A formal letter is written for a specific purpose and
often asks for something, shares and opinion, or informs someone of
something. We are all writing to Mr. Lemmon about a concern that we have
about something at school. Some are writing about lunchroom concerns,
some to ask for more recess, or others to share an idea!
Health
Math
This week we our health
emphasis has been on REST and In Math this week we have
continued to work on place value.
EXERCISE! We have learned that
Our learning targets this week have
students need 10-12 hours of sleep
included:
per night to function well. We had
*using tens and ones to add
fun graphing how many hours each
*identifying tens and ones in 2-0digit
of us sleep to see how we are doing
numbers and add with 10’s & 1’s
on that goal!
*comparing 2-digit numbers using <,
We also talked about the
>, and =
importance of exercise. Exercise
and play keep our heart working *distinguishing between adding
ones and adding tens, and add 1 or
and help us have more energy! We
10 to a number
talked about all different kinds of
exercise and we even had fun with
Examples:
GO NOODLE, which is a website of
Comparing: 36 < 63
short “get up and move” activities
(and we can make a proof drawing!)
for use in the classroom! It’s really
a lot of fun! Finally, we looked at
Adding ones & tens:
things and evaluated whether they
4+3=7
were active or inactive tasks, then
40 + 30 = 70
made a pledge to be more active!
You may notice our Homework 40 + 3 = 43
Folder has “20 minutes of activity”.
The goal is for them to check that if
they are involved in 20 minutes of
activity that day! MOST ARE!