Week in Review, February 16th

Upcoming Events:

February 16 - Presentation Linda Silverman,

 Director of the Gifted Development Center in Denver, Colorado 

No School on February 17-21 for Teacher In-service and Presidents' Day

March 2nd-Read Across America and Crazy Hat Day!

March 10-11 - Teacher Conferences

March 18 - Parent Coffee with Sandi, 7:30 am

March 26 - Seabury Auction!

        This has been a fun filled, busy week in the Beacon classroom!  With Valentine's Day and the 100th Day of School occurring within 2 days of each other, the classroom has been filled with  LOTS of excitement in the air.  The kids enjoyed giving and receiving valentines and especially working on our 100th day writing and math activites. You'll enjoy the following pictures of the Beacons' 100th day of school glasses, working on their bookreports and receiving a $100.00. 

 

                                        100th day of school Pajama Day!Yeah!!

 

 

I'm working on my book report!

If I had a hundred dollars, this is what I'd do.....

Week in Review-February 10

Upcoming Events:

February 14 - Valentine's Day. Please see below.

February 16 - 100th Day of School!  See below!

February 16 - Linda Silverman, Director of the Gifted Development Center in Denver, Colorado Presentation

No School on February 17-21 for Teacher Inservice and
Presidents' Day

March 10-11 - Teacher Conferences

March 18 - Parent Coffee with Sandi, 7:30 am

March 26 - Seabury Auction!

We will have a Valentine's Day celebration on Monday, February 14th at 2:15.  We will have a snack and do a craft.  Please email our room parent if you can help.  Please have your child bring valentines for EVERY person in the class.  We will have boxes or bags for the kids to use to store these valentines. 

On Wednesday, February 16th we will celebrate the 100th day of school!  It will be pajama day for the kids and we will make pancakes for snack that day.  We want the kids to bring in a collection of 100 items to share with the class. 

In Language Arts, we have been working on plural nouns and apostrophes.  Many students confuse the use of apostrophes with plurals, so we have been working on changing these misconceptions.  These are things you can reinforce at home when students are writing sentences or stories for homework.  The students are also continuing in their novels.  Be sure to ask your child what is happening in their book.

We have finished and tested the chapters in math.  The Math Magicians are moving on to division, while the Math Magicals are beginning basic algebra concepts.  Division is a hard concept for many of the students. They can draw a picture or use multiplication to solve division facts. These are good problems to practice when driving in the car. 

Writers' Workshop continues with our action stories for the hard backed books.  Many of the students have finished writing their stories and are peer conferencing,  editing, or teacher conferencing.  We will be publishing these books on the computer in the next few weeks and will have a publisher's picnic once we get them finished. 

The Beacons are on their way with the science fair projects.  They all have great ideas for their projects.  We began our science fair journals this week.  Now students should be completing multiple trials of their experiment at home. They should complete these trials in the next 2 weeks, writing about what they do and the results in their journal.  Students should be finished with their data collecting and experiments by February 22nd, when they also need to bring in their trifold boards.  We will begin the boards on February 22nd at school. 

The students will also be starting their human body project on Monday.  We discussed how to use the fabric markers and the kids brainstormed how to draw their bones.  Be sure to ask about them  next week! 

In Social Studies, students have been rewriting the Mayflower Compact in their own words.  They also are completing the creation of 3 dimensional maps of the voyage of the Mayflower.  The maps even have floating ships!

February is upon us!

Upcoming Events

February 14 - Valentine's Day.  More details to come. 

February 16th - Linda Silverman,

Director of the Gifted Development Center in Denver, Colorado Presentation 

No School on February 17-21 for Teacher Inservice and Presidents' Day

March 10-11 - Teacher Conferences

March 18 - Parent Coffee with Sandi, 7:30 am

March 26 - Seabury Auction!

In Language Arts, students are continuing to read their novels.  We are also talking about adjectives and the nouns they describe.  The students are now looking up the Word of the Day in the dictionary to find the meaning and part of speech.

We will be finishing up our math chapters in the next week.  Look for the practice test to come home on Monday or Tuesday to practice for the test.  Keep working on multiplication facts!

The students took a short break from their hard backed books this week to write a few poems.  As a class, we wrote 2 possible poems for our auction quilt.  The students decided they like acrostic poems much more than rhyming poems.  They each wrote an acrostic poem about their animal and then another using adjectives about themselves.  We will be writing many poems during the month of April, National Poetry Month.

Science has brought us into the world of touch.  We performed a touch test to find the part of the arm that is most sensitive.  The kids went through the scientific method to test their predictions about which part would be most sensitive.  This will help prepare the kids for the upcoming science fair.  You should have found a set of guidelines in the homework folder on Monday.  The brainstorming for the science fair project is due on Monday.  Please let me know if you need any ideas. 

In Social Studies, the students created 3-dimensional maps of the settlement of Roanoke and Jamestown.  They are continuing to learn about the first settlements in America and the voyage of the Mayflower. 

Next week Mrs. Gellert returns!  She will have many interesting stories to share with the students, so be sure to ask on Wednesday!  Here's to another wonderful week!