Friday, January 18, 2013

MLK Jr. Week

Hello Parents and Families!

This week we will be celebrating the 100th Day of School! Your students have officially been in school for their first 100 days ever! :) We will also be continuing our unit on space and the solar system. We will be learning:

In Literacy/Reading we will:
Start to read with a partner the book of the week, "Don Gets A Dog." We will complete and discuss comprehension journal questions on the book as well.

In Math we will:
Compose and Decompose #'s 5-7 and start an introduction to addition concepts. We will also celebrate the 100th day of school on Wed. and will be doing counting to 100 activities and games!

In Writing we will be:
Writing lists, acrostic poems, and narratives about the the planet Earth. We will be focusing on learning about Earth the next two weeks! We will start an intro to recycling, and conservation efforts for Earth.


Classroom Notes:
- No school: MLK Day, Monday Jan. 21st
- Don't forget to bring in your student's 'Raising a Reader' Book Bags every Friday! Your child will not be allowed to get a new bag  until the old one had been returned, or missing books/items have been returned.

Check out some of the work we have done this week below:

Our student of the month, Mia Estrada having lunch with the Principal, David Lujan!
Our Kindergarten students practicing measuring how far the planets in the solar system are from each other, using toilet paper measuring!

counting out how many sheets away from each other the planets are
the inner planets of the solar system!
our outer planets and inner planets
Daniella, showing us how far Uranus is from the Sun!

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