October 31 - Fall Party Day (2:55-3:55 pm)
November 1 - Late Start Day (11:05) (Drop off Begins at 10:45)
November 3 - End of Trimester
November 6 - No School - Records Day
November 10 - Veterans Day Parade & Program (9:05-10:00 am)
November 11 - Veterans Day
November 15 - Board of Education @ Central Middle (7pm)
November 16 - 2nd Gr Music Concert (6:30 pm)
November 16 - California Pizza Kitchen Fundraiser (11am-9pm)
November 17 - PTO Bingo Night (6:30-8pm)
November 20 - Project Parkway Mtg @ West High School (6:30pm)
November 22-24 NO School - Thanksgiving Break
December 1 - KDG Oral Spelling Bee (9:10 am)December 1 - 1st Gr Oral Spelling Bee (12 pm)
December 4 - 2nd Gr Oral Spelling Bee (9:10 am)
December 6 - Late Start Day (11:05) (Drop off Begins at 10:45)
December 6 - Board of Education @ Central Middle (7pm)
Monday, October 30, 2017
Monday, October 23, 2017
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Food Drive - Next week
Student leaders are sponsoring a canned food drive next week. Students may bring these items in next Monday 10-23 - Friday 10-27.
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Spelling Bee
Students took the written spelling bee today! As soon as I have results of who is moving forward, those will be shared with you! :0)
Read Aloud resources for Habits 5, 6, 7
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka
The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown
Are You My Mother? by P. D. Eastman
Is Your Mama a Llama? by Deborah Guarino
Rules by Cynthia Lord (chapter book)
Ox-Cart Man by Donald Hall
Swimmy by Leo Lionni
A Chair for my Mother by Vera Williams
Clifford’s Spring Clean-Up by Norman Bridwell
How the Second Grade Got $8205.50 to Visit the Statue of Liberty by Nathan Zimelman
Chicken Sunday by Patricia Polacco
The Chalk Box Kid by Clyde Robert Bulla (chapter book)
The View From Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg (chapter book)
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle (chapter book)
Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech (chapter book)
The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
Don’t Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late by Mo Willems
Henry Hikes to Fitchburg by D. B. Johnson
Me I Am! by Jack Prelutsky
Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen by DyAnne DiSalvo Ryan
Monday, October 16, 2017
Scholastic Book Wizzard
I often have parents ask me how they can make sure they are finding books appropriate for their little readers. This site is an excellent one. You can browse or search by title or isbn.
https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/bookwizard/
https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/bookwizard/
Word Detectives
(que the spy music!)
Have you heard about our secret missions? We are having loads of fun with our new reading unit - Word Detectives! This unit supports students as they monitor their own reading by locating difficult words, using what they know to try solving those words, and then checking their attempts before either trying again or moving on. This unit also supports students as they are learning how to increase their bank of high-frequency words-and also use the words they know to help solve unknown words. As students learn ways to use visual information effectively, they will learn how to apply their phonics knowledge to solve words in continuous text, attending to blends and digraphs, common inflectional endings, syllable breaks, vowel combinations, common spelling patterns, contractions and compound words. During this unit, first-graders will continually work on developing their fluency skills.
Each day this week we have received a super secret mission to complete......... and so far this is what we have worked on:
1. Word detectives notice when there is a problem and stop to solve it!
2. Word detectives look closely all through the whole word (we used small magnifying glasses during this lesson)
3. Word detectives use everything they know (we referenced our strategies for solving tricky words from the previous unit)
We have also learned a fun, new song to the tune of "Ghostbusters"
Lyrics:
Word Busters!
When there's something strange...
as you read your book...
Whatcha gonna do?
LOOK closely!
When the word is tough...
read from start to end.
Whatcha gonna do?
LOOK closely!
I ain't afraid of no word!
Have you heard about our secret missions? We are having loads of fun with our new reading unit - Word Detectives! This unit supports students as they monitor their own reading by locating difficult words, using what they know to try solving those words, and then checking their attempts before either trying again or moving on. This unit also supports students as they are learning how to increase their bank of high-frequency words-and also use the words they know to help solve unknown words. As students learn ways to use visual information effectively, they will learn how to apply their phonics knowledge to solve words in continuous text, attending to blends and digraphs, common inflectional endings, syllable breaks, vowel combinations, common spelling patterns, contractions and compound words. During this unit, first-graders will continually work on developing their fluency skills.
Each day this week we have received a super secret mission to complete......... and so far this is what we have worked on:
1. Word detectives notice when there is a problem and stop to solve it!
2. Word detectives look closely all through the whole word (we used small magnifying glasses during this lesson)
3. Word detectives use everything they know (we referenced our strategies for solving tricky words from the previous unit)
We have also learned a fun, new song to the tune of "Ghostbusters"
Lyrics:
Word Busters!
When there's something strange...
as you read your book...
Whatcha gonna do?
LOOK closely!
When the word is tough...
read from start to end.
Whatcha gonna do?
LOOK closely!
I ain't afraid of no word!
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