Friday, February 10, 2017

Happy Friday!

Happy Friday

What’s Happening in Room 27

   Showcase is Monday!:  Monday is Showcase Case.  Students will be presenting during their specials time.  Our specials are from 12:45-1:35.  Please check in at the office (or with a volunteer at the door) and then head to art.  You will spend part of the time in art and then go to media (which is in Room 19 on Monday).  I will then pick the students up from there at the end of specials.  The students have some fun things to share with you.  :)  Feel free to go down and check out the Book Fair in the Media Center while you are here.  There will be a lot of great books.

·        Math: This week started to introduce new strategies on subtracting 2 and 3 digit numbers. We started with ten frames, number lines, and hundred charts this week. We are also continuing to practice our 2 and 3 digit addition problems.
o   Next week in math we will continue to work on 2 and 3 digit subtracting unit. We will practice the strategies we learn this week and begin to learn more. We will start to moving into solving subtraction problem through algorithm (stacking)

·       Reading: We have been working on identifying main idea of the article and for each paragraph. We have also been identifying supporting details in each paragraph too. We have been practicing with different nonfiction articles.
o   Next week, in reading we will be working on inferring. We have discussed inferring before, so we know a little about it already! We will dig deeper into inferring and see what all inferring might include!

         Spelling: This week and last week we worked on identifying the sound made by –ed at the end of the word. It can make a /d/, /t/, or /id/ sound.
o   Next week, we will continue with words ending in –ed, but this time working on different ways to add the –ed. We will be looking at CVC words, CVCe words, and words that you just add -ed.
  Our words this week are clipped, knotted, rubbed, tasted, skated, traded, scored, wasted, marked, and stamped

          Writing: This week, we are finishing up our information writing about the animal of our choice. We are working so hard on publishing our writing. We are adding different text features to our published work and using our best handwriting. We are so excited to show off your students work to you!  The students got to share their work with their classmates today.










o   Next week we will be starting our opinion writing. We have fun activities this week where we will have to make really hard decisions on our favorite thing and give reasons why it is our favorite. We also we be making counter arguments on why the others are not our favorite!


·         Social Studies: Today in social studies, we read a book on Abe Lincoln. We identifying the main idea and details on the book. We have been working on identifying the main idea and details from paragraphs from a passage and now we will be practicing identifying from a book.
o   Next week in Social Studies, we will be researching different place where we would like to live. We will pick 2 places to research and then pick the place we would most like to live! We will give reasons why we would rather live in one place instead of the other based on the facts we have researched.
 Counselor Appreciation Week: We have a wonderful counselor, Mr. Smith, at RBE and we made him a poster to show our appreciation today.

·         Maker Space: Today in Makerspace, the students used their creativity with infusion beads! They had different outlines to choose from or they could design their own. The students choose what colors they wanted to create with. An adult ironed their beads so they would stick together. Your student should have their creations in their backpack!










·         In your student’s Friday folder there will be the new Friday checklist which, is green and the finished one which is pink. Please keep the finished pink checklist and initial and return the new green one!
·         There also will be no homework this week!

·         Parent Teacher Conferences! Parent Teacher Conferences are next week! (Feb 13-16) We are so excited to meet all of you! Your confirmed time is on your students Friday Folder Checklist under the comments.  While you're here for your conference, make sure to check out the Book Fair in the Media Center.

We will see you next week!

Have a fabulous weekend!


Mrs. Ross and Ms. Hackmann 

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