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Scarlet and Gray Newsletter
February 1st to 5th, 2016
Volume 19, Issue 22
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Monday
We wrote our ‘Weekend News’. We greeted our friends, said our
class promise and did calendar. We sang our Days and Months
songs, subitized and read our popcorn words. We did our ABC
charts and sang our vowel song. We reviewed the habits of
thinkers. We read F is For Flag and learned and sang ‘Grand Old
Flag’. Our kindergartner of the Week shared his/her poster and
we wrote a sentence about him/her using interactive writing. We
learned about book dedications as we read Arthur’s Nose by our
February author, Marc Brown. We learned our new popcorn word
‘look’ and did rainbow writing of it. We learned that good readers
make connections when they read. We were introduced to our
poem of the week, ‘Here’s a Little Groundhog’. We graphed
whether we think the groundhog will see his shadow. We read It’s
Groundhog Day! The reading group worked on their reading
goals during Literacy Workshop. We had recess. We figured out
our mystery number and practiced counting using tally marks.
Wednesday
We did our February Writing Sample. 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 reviewed the six habits of thinkers.
We did ‘Action Alphabet’. Our kindergartner of the week
brought items for us to estimate and we wrote a sentence
about him/her using interactive writing. The AM class wrote
a sentence using our popcorn word. The PM class had
library. We learned about text-to-text connections and read
Arthur and the True Francine by Marc Brown. We
sequenced the lines of our poem. We graphed whether we
know anyone who is 100 years old or older. Two reading
groups determined their reading goals during literacy
workshop. We had recess. We found our mystery number
and did a count and write activity and a find how many and
record activity in math.
Tuesday
Our math starter today was Snowflake Tally Marks.
We then greeted our friends. We sang ‘Grand Old
Flag’ and said our class promise and did calendar. We
counted to 100 by fives and tens 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 words. The AM class had library. The PM
class wrote about the science image. We learned that
good readers make text-to-self connections. We read
Arthur’s Eyes by Marc Brown and then we shared our
connections to the story. The reading group
determined their reading goals during literacy
workshop. We read Go to Sleep, Groundhog! and
Guess Whose Shadow? We had recess. We figured
out our mystery number. We did a count and write
activity for math.
Thursday
We counted and recorded the number using tally marks
instead of 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 new blend cards (bl
block, br bridge, etc.) We reviewed the 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
goal in mind as we wrote independently about our
kindergartner of the week. We read, highlighted the
popcorn word in and illustrated our poem. We learned
about text-to-world connections and discovered them as we
read Arthur’s Teacher Trouble by Marc Brown We found
our mystery number. We did literacy workshop. We had
guidance with Mrs. Hanks.
Friday
We sang ‘Grand Old Flag’, said our class promise and learned that ten groups of ten makes one hundred. We had Family Friday. We read Miss Bindergarten Celebrates the 100th Day of Kindergarten. We counted our 100th day collections by tens with partners. We read Chicka, Chicka, 123. We visited eight 100th Day stations with activities in number sense, measurement, logic, grouping, art and fitness. Thanks to all of our 100th day volunteers!!! 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
Valentines will be exchanged on February 12th. This is very lowkey, no party but we will decorate bags to collect valentines at
school (no boxes or bags need to be prepared at home). Students
can sign valentines at home (23 should be plenty). Please don’t put
names on the envelopes. We line up the bags and drop them in
one at a time. If there are names on envelopes it really slows
down the process.
If you have any empty tissue boxes or Pringles-type cans, we
could use them for an upcoming project.
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 10th – Father’s Night #2 – forms and money due Tuesday
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.
February 26th – No School – Teacher Workday
March 21st to 25th – No School – Spring Break
Thanks to our volunteers this week: Mr. Griffith, Mrs. Harden and Mr.
White. Thanks, also, to our 100th day volunteers: Mrs. Smialek, Mr.
White, Mrs. Gilliam, Mrs. Morin, Mr. Snider, Mrs. Jackson, Mrs. Nosek,
Mrs. Weese, Mrs. Harden and Mr. Abdi!!
Have a super weekend!
Go Buck!
Vianne