Fun with Magnitude!
Make a reasonable guess how many seeds you can scoop out a pumpkin.
They did great and had fun too! Their faces were priceless!
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Boosterthon Pep Rally!
We are off and running....we have about $22 pledged per lap to date!
Thank you to all our families that are contributing to make WES the best school possible for our students! YOU ROCK!
Sunday, October 26, 2014
Weekly Preview
Well, I think Fall has officially set in as I see signs all
over town. Leaves of many colors
covering my backyard, harvested pumpkins on front porch steps and the days
getting shorter/nights getting longer ( even though it doesn’t feel that way
). It’s great that Fall is in full
swing! This week we begin to talk about
seasonal changes and how they not only effect was but also animals and
plants. This unit will take 2 weeks to
complete.
In reading this week, our focus will be the letters q, l, and
j. We will talk about those letters briefly
and move onto the short u sound. Our
last short vowel to cover. We will also
work on summarizing our reading. For us
that means, including the important parts of a story during a retell. We will also work on story structure. This includes the terms characters, setting,
problem and solution. We will continue
to read in small group and work on word study in class. We will incorporate summarizing into our writing this week.
This week in math, we will continue to learn about magnitude. We have learned that this means to make a
Reasonable Guess of an amount of objects.
We will scoop out a pumpkin and make a guess of how many seeds we can
hold in our hands. We will also use
candy corn to measure magnitude using Fall shapes. We will then move onto Place Value. This will include identifying numbers and
counting to 50 and how they can be represented using base ten blocks.
Weekly Notes:
Boosterthon is still going on.
Our fun run will take place on Wednesday starting at 9:15. Please feel free to attend the fun!
Our field trip is now scheduled for November 5!
This week is Red Ribbon Week:
Tomorrow
is LOVE YOURSELF and be DRUG FREE- Wear Red and or Hearts!
Tuesday- Don't let Drugs put Your Dreams to
Sleep!
PJ Day
Wednesday-
Don't Let Drugs and Alcohol Slow you Down! Get a Natural Boost
from a Fun RUN! FUN RUN SHIRTS!!
Thursday- We are Smarter Than Drugs- Wear College
or WES Spirit
Friday- Show Your Character and be Drug
Free- Dress Like a Book Character
No School Tuesday, November 4, 2014.
Have a great week!
Mrs. Beltz
Sunday, October 12, 2014
Weekly Preview
Well, it looks like Fall is in full swing....chilly air, leaves changing colors and pumpkins everywhere. What a fun time of year! During Reading this week, we will practice noting details while reading in small group and whole group reading. We will learn about the short o sound and review the letters x,c,d,l, and n. We will continue with small group reading where we will continue to do word study on your child's instructional level. We will not have a writing focus piece this week or next week as we will be writing sentences into our Symbols book. This will help reinforce the symbols we are learning about in Social Studies for the next 2 weeks.
We will continue to review friends of 10 ten in math. They have been doing a great job with this and have a good idea of how to decompose numbers.
In Social Studies, we will learn about American Symbols. Our focus will be on the American Flag, the Pledge of Allegiance, the Bald Eagle, the Statue of Liberty and the Washington Monument. We will learn facts about each symbol and why that symbol is significant for America. We will incorporate this into writing as well.
Things to Remember:
Please send in a snack daily.
K-2 Learning Night, October 21, 6:30-7:30 ( an event for students and parents )
October 22- Field Trip, more info to come!
Have a great week!
Mrs. Beltz
Scientists!
This week we were scientists for the first time this year. We loved learning about force and motion through the scientific method.
Check out these pictures and ask them about it!
Popcorn, Popcorn Everywhere!
Congratulations on Reaching your Reward!
We have been earning FUZZIES since the beginning of the school year. Our goal is to collect 30 each time. When we earn 30, we earn a party of my choosing. This time we had a popcorn/dance party! WAY TO GO! Keep up the good work!
Sunday, October 5, 2014
Weekly Preview...
THis week we will continue with our reading and small group instruction. We will focus on cause and effect this week with our reading series. We will also begin to work on the short i sound. We will be reading books on our independent reading level during reading groups. Our writing this week will focus on creativity and using our 4 square to guide our writing. We will read the book "Not a Box" and use our imaginations to create our own not a box story.
We will begin to decompose numbers in math. We will focus on ways to make 10. We will do this through games, songs and ten frames.
This week we begin a new unit in Science. We will learn about Force and Motion. We will examine the forces of push/pull, circular motion, back/forth and straight. We will do this through experiments and trying to make various objects move. This will be a fun unit.
Things to Remember and Upcoming Dates:
PTA Meeting---October 14
K-2 Learning Night---October 21, Be looking for the flyer on this fun night of learning!
Have a great week!
Mrs. Beltz
Reading Stamina
Wow!
That’s Some Awesome Reading Stamina!
We reached our reading stamina goal of 20 minutes and earned 5 fuzzies!
AWESOME JOB FIRST GRADERS!
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