The week of January 29th

Upcoming Events 

Winter Sports 2018

   February 7, 2018

Valentine’s Day Class Celebration

Feb. 14, 2018 9:00-10:00

We will have a small Valentine’s Day party in our classroom on Feb. 14th from 9:00-10:00 . If your child would like to hand out valentines this year please make sure you have one for each child in our class. Students will have time to pass out their valentines and enjoy a small treat. I will provide a few treats for the kids this time around! 

Class lists will be sent home in your child's home folder on Tuesday! 

Fairy Tale Readers' Theater Performances

February 22, 2018 

9:30-10:30

Trimester II Grades Close February 23, 2018 

Classroom News 

This week was a tough week for us! Many students were home sick with fevers, flu like symptoms and stomach bugs! The first and second graders wash their hands each morning upon arrival, and I encourage them to wash throughout the day, especially before lunch and snack. Mr. Carlton has a new classroom tool that will help keep our school germ free. He will use his misting wand to spray each classroom once a week in a effort to keep sickness away from Waterville! In happier news, we loved our second winter sports day on Wednesday. The weather was amazing and again I saw so many persistent students LOVING their activities! We have also really liked exploring on Spellingcity.com. Students are getting to be experts at logging in and navigating to our Waterville website. As we get better at using this new tool, I will make our username and password available for practice at home.  Thank you to all of the families who have donated to our penny war! We have filled already! Clothing donations are welcome and appreciated too. 

Readers' Workshop

In reading this week, we continued to read fairy tales. We read Thumbelina together as a class. Together we worked on identifying the challenges that Thumbelina faced in the book and how she responded. Students are really excited to begin practicing for our Fairy Tale Readers Theater Performance! We will be practicing our plays next week. Our learning targets will be: reading with accuracy, making facial expressions and changing our voices to match different  character's feelings.  We will also compare and contrast the different versions of fairy tales. Family members are invited to come and watch our performances the morning of Feb. 22nd .  We will be sending home invitations soon, so look for them in your child's home folder. 

Writers' Workshop 

In writing, we did some fun would you rather prompts! Students practiced sharing their opinions about various topics such as would you rather have hot lunch or cold lunch, do you like summer or winter, or do you prefer video games or board games. Next week, we will begin the LIFE OF A REVIEWER!! Students will begin writing their own reviews about some of their favorite or least favorite things! 

Math 

It was a lot of fun making our class number line! The students worked together to place different numbers on the line. Students shared their thinking and gave feedback to their classmates about the placement of numbers. We even added some negative numbers to our number line.  We were excited to begin a new number corner project for the month of February. We will work on identifying 2D shapes and learning to identify if two shapes are congruent or not congruent.  We will also celebrate our 100th day of school in the coming weeks. We will do some fun activities in class to help celebrate this special day and number!