Dr. Seuss Day

Some fun pictures of our Green Eggs & Ham breakfast party.

A Peek at the Week of March 14-18

March conferences will be held on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.  These days will be Early Dismissal days.  We will have lunch, but there will not be afternoon snack.

Please send in the book gift for Miss Ward by this Friday, March 18th.  We will be celebrating her last day of Student-teaching next week. 


Homework
Monday 3/14
1. Read for at least 15 minutes
2. Winter Word Work

Tuesday 3/15
1.  Read for at least 15 minutes
2.  Math:  St. Patty's Frosting

Wednesday 3/16
1.  Read for at least 15 mintues
2.  Writing:  Green Riddles

Thursday 3/16
1.  Read for at least 15 minutes
2.  Study for tomorrow's spelling test

Have a great week!



Highlights of the Week March 11

• AB was a great captain.  (DG)
• Next week's captain will be HB.  Everyone will be getting a second turn at being the captain.  (JF)
• We celebrated CH's birthday.  Her mom brought in fudgicles.  (KE)
• We finished reading Superfudge.  (EW)  It was really good.  (KE)
• Today we will start a new chapter book called Fudgeamania.  I think it will be really good.  (CH)
• In gym we played matball.  (JF)
• Today we will celebrate AS's birthday with donuts.  His real birthday is next week.  (MC)
• Everyone will bring home their report cards today.  I bet a lot of parents are going to be really proud of their first grader.  (Miss D.)
• We will have a spelling test today.  (KK)
• We are going to have a Mystery Reader in 1 hour.  (MM)
• We started a new picture in art.  We are painting the sky and are going to add flowers and clouds to the sky.  (JF)
• LMD's painting is going to be hung in the Darien Library for the whole town to see.  (AK)  I bet L's family will take a little trip to see his painting.  (Miss D.)
• In music we learned a kite song.   We played it on the xylophones and the drums and the tambourines.  (MC)
• This weekend we will turn the clocks ahead 1 hour on Saturday night.  This will give us more daylight hours after school.  (Miss D.)
• In Writing Workshop we started writing All About books.  (AMS)
• In Reading Workshop we are studying characters.  (CH)
• In Reading Workshop we have been having a lot of wrap-ups.  (MC)  A wrap-up is when some people share their books with the class.  They tell about connections or something they learned or they do a 'book commercial' where they tell the class how great a book is. (GC)

Pennies for Patients

The Student Council is sponsoring a fund raiser called Pennies for Patients.  This is a collection for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Connecticut.  Money of any kind can be sent in, not just pennies!

Highlights of the Week March 7-11

Progress reports (aka report cards) will be sent home this Friday, March 11th.  You can keep the report, but please sign and return the white envelope.

Miss Ward will be with us for just a few more weeks.  Keep sending in her 'secret' surprise gifts.

Homework
Monday 3/7
1.  Read for at least 15 minutes
2.  Winter Word Work

Tuesday 3/8
1.  Read for at least 15 minutes
2.  Math:  March Mystery Day

Wednesday 3/9
1.  Read for at least 15 minutes
2.  Let's Fly a Kite

Thursday 3/10
1.  Read for at least 15 minutes
2.  Study for tomorrow's test

Have a great week!

Highlights of the Week March 4

• EW was a good captain. (KE)
• AB will be the next captain.  (KK)
• Next week we will go back to captain #1 because everyone had 1 turn.  (MM)
• In art we are making clay baskets for spring.  (GC)
• We ate green eggs and ham in honor of Dr. Seuss' birthday.  (KK)
• Six moms and 1 cute little brother came in to cook and serve breakfast to our class.  (Miss D.)
• We also watched a video about the Green Eggs and Ham after Miss Ward read the book to us.  (CH)
• We started writing All About books in Writing Workshop.  (EW)
• We started a unit on characters in Reading Workshop. (KE)
• Miss Ward has been teaching everything and she is doing a great job! (Miss D.)
• We learned about the Titanic because AMS brought in a really cool book about it.  The Titanic hit an iceberg and it sunk.  Many people died and it was very sad.  (AK)
• Today we had a pep rally for February.  CH and AH won the award! (JF)
• We played mat ball in gym.  It was Miss D.'s favorite gym game when she was in school.  (SS)
• The front purple table won table points for February.  Those 4 kids get free time on the computer all of next week!  (MC)
• We switched seats for the new month of school.  (MM)

Peek at the Week of February 28-March 4

Welcome back to school!  It is nice to think about March beginning with Spring weather (hopefully) right around the corner.

We will be starting some new units of study.  In Writing Workshop, we will begin our 2nd non-fiction writing project called "All About______".  During this unit students will be writing about things they consider themselves experts in.  It can be anything from All About Dogs or All About Hockey or All About Ox Ridge.  During this unit we will be practicing writing in complete, factual sentences.  There will be a big emphasis on adding details so instead of just a few sentences there will be paragraphs. 

In Reading Workshop we are beginning a unit on Characters.  This unit will explore concepts such as: main vs. supporting character, making personal connections to characters, character traits and comparing characters.  We will revisit some favorite character series and will also have a chance to learn about new characters.

Dr. Seuss' birthday will be celebrated this Thursday with a breakfast party of Green Eggs & Ham.  I would like to have children bring in any Dr. Seuss books you might have at home.  Please make sure your name is on the book.  The books will be sent home on Friday.

By the middle of this week we should be starting our second math book.  I know everyone is looking forward to a shiny & new math book.



Homework
Monday 2/28
1.  Read for at least 15 minutes
2. Winter Word Work

Tuesday 3/1
1.  Read for at least 15 minutes
2.  Math:  Dr. Seuss books

Wednesday 3/2
1.  Read for at least 15 mnutes
2.  Dr. Seuss Fact & Opinion

Thursday 3/3
1.  Read for at least 15 minutes
2.  Review words for tomorrow's test

Have a great weekend!