Closing February

Ask Your Child About...

1. Identify and write: it, he, in, no, she, all

2. Identify, sound, and write: Hh, Kk, Ee

3. Create teen numbers using different groups of numbers

4. Identify patterns within one hundred

5. Maps!

Our University practicum, Ms. Elliot, reading to the class.

🔆 I hope you all are enjoying the change of weather! The kids have loved the warmer and sometimes sunny days for recess! We are very excited for Spring to start showing its signs to us.

🙂 Thank you to the guardians who have already met with me for conferences! I am glad we have this time to catch up and discuss all the growth your child is making through the year. I look forward to meeting with everyone else on Monday! If you even have questions or comments, please do not hesitate to reach out. Conferences is a wonderful time to discuss with each other, but it is not the only time I am available- just let me know, I am here for your child and you.

🍎If you would like to donate a snack option to our class, we would love to have them! We are nearing the end of our current snack options within the next week or so. Thank you so much for your continued support in providing our friends with healthy and tasty choices!

🏡 Thank you for your Ronald McDonald tab donations! Our classroom house collection is slowly rising... let's fill it to the roof! We get very excited to add more tabs and look forward to continuing to do so through the end of the year.

📚 In reading this week we focused on drawing conclusions. We were able to see how we can take what a character is feeling, saying, or doing to help us gather information about what is to come. We were also able to connect this work to our daily lives in school and our community. We held a few community circles to talk about when and how we can use these skills to better understand our peers and express ourselves. 

🔢 Math has brought us through teen numbers and into greater place value understanding. We will continue to look at teen numbers and their relation to single digits and beyond. We have focused on number sets from 0 to 50 as well as the decade numbers (10, 20, 30, 40... to 100). We are finding patterns within our 100 chart that help us see the relationship between numbers and how we can work through them in efficient ways. You can help your child by finding patterns and connections among numbers, counting by different groups (ones, tens, fives) and by identifying numbers in the world around them. You can also prompt your child with what is one more? ten more? one less? ten less? and so forth. 

🌎 Social studies has brought us to maps and understanding where we are in the world. We have worked from small to big and big to small! We know what city, state, country, and world we live in. We have created maps to help show how our surrounding gets bigger from where we are. We have also created maps to show different rooms or ways around a town. You can encourage these skills by creating a map of your own neighborhood! Walk the block and draw landmarks you see and show which direction you need to go. You can also get creative to draw a treasure map leading to a specific spot or item in your house or neighborhood.

Lion Love 💗

Ask Your Child About...

1. Identify and write: said, good

2. Identify, sound, and write: Xx, Jj

3. Write and explain equations for teen numbers

4. Pancake Day

5. Valentine's Day

      

🥞 Pancake Day was a HUGE hit! Thank you to all of the guardians who volunteered to help set-up, operate, and clean-up our wonderful smelling and delicious tasting pancakes! The kids loved being a part of the making process and eating their creations. We were also very excited to see so many of our very own parents at the event! Wow! Thank you!

⛄ I hope everyone was able to stay warm and enjoy the day off due to the cold temperatures. Although there wasn't much snow and the temperatures were too cold to really play outside, it is always a nice surprise for the kids when they get an extra home day.

💕 Valentine's Day was wonderful and the kids showed their love for friends and learning all day long. Thank you to the guardians who helped provide some extra special snacks for our party! 

🏡 We are on our way to filling our Ronald McDonald house with can tabs. Through the remainder of the year we will collect these as a way to support the efforts of the Ronald McDonald House. Whether you have one, a handful, or baggies full of can tabs, we will gladly accept them! Thank you for your participation!

📚 Reading this week focused on story structure. We took note of how a story starts, what events occur that lead up to a major point of interest, and how the story comes back down to a resolution. This skill not only helps us better understand the stories we read, but it also helps us write clearly and productively, as well as retell our own events and stories to others. We also met our new practicum student who will be joining us for this last half of the school year. Ms. Elliot is studying Elementary Education at the University of Iowa and will be joining our classroom every morning (except Thursdays). If you have any questions please let me know!

🔢 We are continuing our study of teen numbers and how we can write and represent them in many different ways. This week we focused on the use of ten frames and creating equations that add up to a teen number. Help your student practice this skill at home by setting out objects in a group of ten and some more. Translate this into an equation by writing your two number groups and the final answer. Don't forget- sometimes we know the answer and not the groups!

Celebrations!

Ask Your Child About...

1. Identify and write: make, play

2. Identify, sound, and write: Oo

3. Identify, count, show, and write teen numbers

4. 100th day celebrations!

5. Our all school celebration!

Our Groundhog predictions from last Friday and the results below from Monday.

💯 We celebrated 100 days with many different activities! We read several books about 100 things, completed a 100 chart, used 100 cups to build different structures, wrote 100 rhyming words, used 100 drops of water for a science experiment, created crowns, and counted 100 objects many times! Your child is bringing home a special 100th day treat to enjoy as you talk about all the activities!

🦁 Wow! The whole school reached over 6,000 paw tickets and was able to celebrate with an all school Minute-to-Win-it challenge! We loved testing our skills in just one minute. Ask your child about their penny stacking abilities and what their favorite minute game was and why.

     

🎉 We have also filled our own class jar again, and will celebrate on Monday, February 10th with a pajama day! Please be sure to help your child pick a set of pajamas that will keep them comfy throughout our entire day. Thank you!

🍎 If you would like to donate a snack option to our class we would love the new options! We are at the bottom of our last snack options and will be needing some replenishing soon. Thank you so much for your continued support in providing our friends with healthy and tasty choices!!

🏡 Student council has passed out Ronald McDonald houses for each class to use for collecting can tabs (such as those on pop cans, bubbly water cans, and so on). We will collect these through the remainder of the year. Your child may bring the tabs in as they are used or collect some in a baggy and then bring the baggy in. Through this collection, we will be able to help support the wonderful efforts of the Ronald McDonald House. Thank you for your participation!

😊 Winter conferences are upon us! If you have not signed up for a conference slot yet, please click the link to do so. I look forward to meeting with all of you!
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🥞 On Wednesday, February 12th we will celebrate Abe Lincoln's birthday with an all school pancake day! This is a tradition at Lincoln that all enjoy! There will be stations where the students and a volunteer guardian will make the pancakes and tables set up for the students to enjoy their creations after!

💕 Friday, February 14th we will celebrate Valentine's Day. The kiddos are very excited for this celebration that will be filled with fun activities and a celebration and passing of valentines at the end of the day. If your child is bringing special valentines, please be sure you have enough for all in the class (21 students). I will have paper bags for the students to decorate- if your child wants a box or container, it will need to come from home. Thank you!

  

📚 This Wednesday was World Read Aloud Day! We had a few special guests read us some of their favorite book choices. Many of the stories focused on characters and how we can understand their thoughts, actions and feelings. Continue the joy of World Read Aloud Day at home with your own favorite stories!

🔢 We continued our work with teen numbers in math this week (11-20). We looked at how we can identify them, split them into ten and some more, what one or two more or less would be, and how we can show these numbers in different ways (using ten frames, drawing pictures, writing equations, and using mathematical words! We also looked at numbers all the way to 100 on Friday with all of our celebrations! Keep encouraging your child at home by finding numbers in the world around them. Ask them questions of how they know, what they could show, and what is more/less, or even creating/solving an equation with these numbers.