I hope that your family had a wonderful weekend! We had a fabulous Monday & I know that the rest of our week will be just as great! :)
Snack
- As a reminder, we have an individual snack each day around 9:30. If your child would like a snack, please send in one with them. Last week, I provided a snack for kiddos who forgot, but I am not able to continue to do this throughout the school year. A family has sent in some extra snacks but several kiddos did not have snack today, which caused these to dwindle down. Please try to establish a routine that works best for your family so that your child has a snack. There are a few families that put 5 snacks in the backpack on Sunday night so that they don't have to remember each day, and other families add an extra item to their child's lunchbox each day. If you are needing assistance with snack please let me know.
PE
- Tomorrow is PE - so remember to have your kiddo wear his/her tennis shoes!!
Library Checkout
- Tomorrow will be our first library checkout of the school year. I know that the kiddos are excited! Please help your child to remember to bring his/her library books back every Tuesday.
We started getting into our full routine today! I have listed below the fun things we will be working on this week!
- Math:
We started learning different strategies to solve addition problems today.
We will be working on number lines, counting on, tally marks,
pictures, number bonds, part-part-whole and tens frames. We will
also be using these strategies to solve word problems.
- Reading: We started reading stations today! The kids did so great!!! :) We have 5 stations that we complete during reading. This week we have a fiction, nonfiction, response, word study (spelling) and a writing station. Today we wrote another reading response in our notebook about one of the books that we read (Maurleen, Maurleen the Queen of Mean or The Recess Queen). We will start working on character traits on Wednesday. We will discuss
the difference between physical traits and traits that describe the
character's personality.
- Writing: Today we completed our Heart Map (all the things that we love and know about that we can write about). Tomorrow, we will start our first writing unit, which is personal
narratives. The stories are called "small moment" stories
which means that they only take up a small amount of time, but it allows
the writer to give a lot of good details in their writing.
- Science:
On Friday, we have a fun experiment for the students called "Dancing
Raisins." This will help us introduce the scientific method to
the students.
- Social studies: On Friday, we will learn about the importance of maps and then create a map of the school.
Study Hall
- We
will are starting Study Hall this week. This occurs during the first
recess and is used as a time for students who didn't complete their
homework or didn't complete their work at school.
- If
students do go to study hall, they will still have their lunch recess, so
they will have a recess during the day.
Homework
- The kiddos are wondering when homework will be starting. I am not starting homework until after Labor Day. I really want to make sure that all of our classroom routines are well established and that everyone is used to the "school routine" before adding homework into the mix.
- Our homework looks a little different that first grade, but similar to what third grade uses. More information will be coming soon! :)
From Eileen Sharp (our new music teacher at RBE)
I’ve had a blast meeting all of
our students at RBE! I am so impressed with their positive attitudes and
overall sweetness! Below is the link to my blog.
I hope that your family has a wonderful evening!
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