April 1, 2016

Part of our "rainforest" is coming to life! More pictures on the blog~

Hello Families,

 I REALLY wish April Fools Day could be dedicated to weekends~

Much of our time this week has been dedicated to assessment for report cards and conferences. If you have not signed up for a conference, please do!

Books Read: The Runaway Bunny. The Happy Day, Counting is for the Birds, Hang on Hopper!, Big Sarah's Little Boots

We continued to be involved with the Chickadee Book Award Program which allows many different teachers in our school (including Mr. Libby) to read a variety of wonderful literature and for the children to respond in writing to the books. They had a chance to vote on their favorite of them all. (There are 10 in all).  I wonder who will win?

During writing time they are; putting the finishing on touches on our “published pieces” for our share day with our book buddies on Friday, visualizing places and people to write about, adding words (letters) to their pictures, rehearsing what they want to say about what they wrote, taking turns sharing their ideas and writing with partners, adding spaces between words and punctuation at the end of a sentence, going back into their writing pieces and revising what they have written by changing or adding to what they wrote and continuing to build up their confidence as writers. We also continue to correspond with our pen pals in Pittston.

Animated Alphabet is our approach to phonemic awareness and spelling. The letters are taught through a multi sensory approach of music, dance, characters and signs which help the students hold onto that information. The characters we have learned about this week were; The Whistling White Whale, Zachary and Zena, and June and her pet Mule.

In math we are working with two digit numbers, formation of numbers, addition and subtraction practice, counting and number recognition, solving number stories, calculator use and continuing our calendar routines. Our routines at calendar time include; counting to the calendar number of the day, weather observations (adding “Lion and Lamb” to our weather observations), tracking the number of days we have been in school and days of the week. Also assessment for report cards.

We are learning about the Woolwich Way! The Woolwich Way is made up of 6 qualities that will help us to be the best we can be! (Courtesy- I can use good manners, Compassion-I can help others, Respect- I can treat others kindly, Honesty-I can tell the truth, Responsibility- I can take care of myself and my stuff, Quality- I can do my best even when things are hard)

Upcoming Events: 

April 14 & 15- Parent Teacher Conferences- PLEASE sign up (1/2 days of school)

April 18-22 Vacation