100 Day!

Despite the school delays and early releases due to snow, we still made it to Day100! Friday was our 100th day of school - we are 100 days smarter! We read stories about 100 Day, did 100 exercises (phew!), and sang 100 word wall words. We also made hats and colored a fake 100 dollar bill. 

We have wrapped up our procedural writing genre (How-Tos) and will be sending them home on Monday. Sharing the group project kids worked on was a fun way to bring the unit to a close. Most were presented this week, and the final ones will be presented Monday, due to some absent kids from a couple of the groups.

How To Play School

How To Paint Nails

How To Build A Box Fort Police Station

How To Make A Paper Airplane

Our next genre of writing is letter writing. We have learned the organization of a letter format: Heading (date), Greeting (Dear so and so), Body (what we want to tell), Closing (From, Love...), and Signature (name). Of course we have a song to help us remember, set to the tune of Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes.

We have written a couple of letters so far that went home to be delivered. We will continue next week and then use this format to introduce Persuasive Writing.

One of the texts we read aloud this week, Dear Tooth Fairy, was a fun way to introduce the letter genre, because Emily wrote a daily letter to the Tooth Fairy in this very funny book. Another text that had everyone on the edge of their seats was The Magic Hockey Skates. The Penguin That Hated the Cold was a funny book that launched or penguin focus.

Our globes with a lift up flap showing where penguins live

Non fiction texts we read that supported our focus on penguins were The Emperor's Egg, Without You, and Antarctica. The kids can tell you all about the dangers to penguins, the sizes and diet of penguins, and can explain how the Emperor penguins huddle together on the darkest, coldest days and nights and shuffle to keep everyone warm, all while holding an egg on their feet! We will continue with some penguin activities next week.

Bring out the bear claw! Spelling words with an ___aw spelling pattern can be tricky, but a bear claw filled with rhyming words for /aw/ makes it fun. 

Time to spell paw, claw, saw...!

In science we have been differentiating between living things and non living things. We can describe a living thing as needing food, water, and air to breathe, and as something able that changes, grows, moves, and has young.

Our poster chart

Math has found us all over the 100 chart counting by 1s and 10s, and finding one more and less than a given number, and ten more and less than a given number.

We have introduced the symbols for greater than and less than ( <  >), and due to the snow schedule changes, the homework included a page on this before we actually introduced it! Thank you for being the one to introduce it at home! Brings you right back to early school days doesn't it?! Everyone has seemed to catch on quickly.

We wished a Happy Birthday to Alyssa on Monday - the only February birthday in our class.

Next week is Valentine's Day (Wednesday) - the kids can send cards in any time ( a few ambitious friends already have!) and drop them in the Valentine's bags hanging up. We also have our last PTO school store on Friday. I'll send a reminder note home on Thursday. 

Have a wonderful weekend,              

Our Snowy Owl writing and project

Goodbye to the arctic!

Mrs. Dagley