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Scarlet and Gray Newsletter
February 8th to 12th, 2016
Volume 19, Issue 23
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Monday
We wrote our ‘Weekend News’. We greeted each other, sang ‘Grand Old Flag’, said our class promise and did calendar. We sang our Days and Months songs, subitized and read our popcorn words. We did our A BC charts and sang our vowel song. We reviewed the habits of thinkers. Our kindergartner of the Week shared his/her poster and we wrote a sentence about him/her using interactive writing. We read My Picture Story and learned about characters and settings in stories. We also identified characters and settings after reading Arthur’s Baby by Marc Brown. We learned our new popcorn word ‘no’ and did rainbow writing of it. We were introduced to our poem of the week, ‘My Shadow’. We graphed whether we watched the Super Bowl. We read My First Chinese New Year. The AM class had library. The PM class did Literacy Workshop. We made thank you cards for Mrs. Hanks for school counselor week. Tuesday
Our math starter today was How Many?. We
greeted our friends, sang ‘Grand Old Flag’, said
our class promise and did calendar. We counted
to 100 by ones and read our popcorn words. We
did our ABC charts with digraphs. We reviewed
the habits of thinkers. Our kindergartner of the
week brought something for science and we wrote
a sentence about him/her using interactive writing.
We did speedwriting of our popcorn word. The AM
class wrote about the science image and did
literacy workshop. The PM class had library. We
found the characters and settings in Arthur’s Goes
to Camp by Marc Brown. We read Celebrating
Patriotic Holidays, The White House and The
Statue of Liberty. We watched a Brainpop, Jr.
about U.S. Symbols. We figured out our mystery
number. We played Partner Bingo 0-30.
Wednesday
We greeted one another, sang ‘Grand Old Flag’, said
our class promise and did calendar. We counted to
100 by fives and tens and read our popcorn words.
We did ‘Action Alphabet’. We reviewed the habits of
thinkers. Our kindergartner of the week brought
items for us to estimate and we wrote a sentence
about him/her using interactive writing. We identified
the characters and setting after reading Arthur’s
Birthday by Marc Brown. We wrote our sight words
and any other words we cold think of. We learned
about non-fiction text features and found them during
literacy workshop. We sequenced the lines of our
poem. We found our mystery number. Mrs. Barley
and Mrs. Gearhart awarded two students with Student
of the Month certificates.
Thursday
We counted on to find missing numbers. We greeted
classmates. We sang ‘Grand Old Flag’, said our class
promise and did calendar. We counted backwards from 20,
subitized ten frames and read our popcorn words. We did
blend cards and reviewed habits of thinkers. Our
kindergartner of the week shared something for Social
Studies and we wrote our final sentence about him/her
using interactive writing. We kept our personal writing
goals in mind as we wrote independently about our
kindergartner of the week. We read, highlighted the
popcorn word in and illustrated our poem. We identified
the characters and the settings in Arthur Meets the
President by Marc Brown. We did literacy workshop. We
read Young Abraham Lincoln. We found our mystery
number and read Me and the Measure of Things and
explored various types of measurement.
Friday
We completed the missing numbers, sang ‘Grand Old Flag’, said our class promise, greeted friends, read our popcorn words and reviewed habits of thinkers. We had Family Friday. We practiced writing our first and last names in D’Nealian handwriting. We did shared reading and read Arthur’s Valentine. We did literacy workshop. We decorated valentines bags and exchanged valentines. Dear Parents,
Contact Info:
Voicemail:
760-6298
E-MAIL:
letostak_vianne@
dublinschools.net
REMINDERS:
MONDAY:
Homework Due
A DAY: Library Books
Due
FRIDAY:
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Wear Tennis
shoes for
Fitness
Book Pockets
Due
(beginning in
November)
PLEASE REMEMBER
TO STORE LIBRARY
BOOKS AND BOOK
POCKETS IN
BOOKBAGS TO
PREVENT LOSS OR
DAMAGE.
We’re on the Web!
See us at:
www.dublinschools.
net/oldesawmill
I was able to exchange books in about 2/3 of the book pockets.
If your child did not bring home new books on Friday, they will get
the book pocket on Tuesday. In the meantime, please have them
read their book box books.
If you are interested in the details on redistricting for the 2016-17
school year, it is available at this site:
http://www.dublinschools.net/k8redistricting2015.aspx
Upcoming Dates:
February 15th – No School – President’s Day
February 17th to 25th – Round #2 Newsminutes
February 18th – Seussical the Musical – AM Newsminutes will be
rescheduled for the 19th. Information went home on Friday for both AM
and PM classes – (see neon green flyer).
February 26th – No School – Teacher Workday
March 21st to 25th – No School – Spring Break
Thanks to our volunteers this week: Mr. Combs, Mrs. Gilliam, Mrs.
Jackson and Mrs. Nosek
Have a fantastic weekend!
Go Bucks!
Vianne