The Daily Dragon February 9th-13th,
2009
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News for you to Know
A Peek at the Week
Highlights! New Words to know:
- If you were looking for the newsletter last week, my
apologies-due to being out 2 days at a conference and
the staff development day on Wednesday, I was in on
Sunday preparing materials for the guest teacher and I
did not get the newsletter checked off on my list of
things to do. The children enjoyed some activities based Popcorn Words/High Frequency
around Groundhog’s day while I was away those 2 days.
New words: Review of the –et family-pet, set,
- New Skills include: wet words: he,she, was added to list
Language Arts and Theme: 1st and 2nd 9 weeks word list:
This week with our Friendship celebration on
I a see me red yellow blue green
Friday we will be learning about caring for others
can do the to orange purple, we, like,
including our friends and loved ones. We will use
our writing time to learn about letter writing.
brown, black, white, pink, my, go, gray, am ,
We are continuing to fine tune our skill of counting you, is.
sounds in words and will be working on ending yes, no, for , and, are, said, it, here
sounds this week as well. -at words, -an words,-it family words, here
Assessments continue as the window for completion 3rd 9 weeks: what, where, ig family words
was moved back due to the snow days and the STAR WORDS.
delayed starts. We are assessing Math currently 1st and 2nd 9 weeks STAR word list:
with individual students.
by, of ,could ,from ,ask, give
Sound practice: going, some, stop, take over, fly
We have completed activities with the /sh/ sound. Please
let, has ,him, her, will, put, there, once
add /sh/ to the sound list with all alphabet sounds for
your child to know. This week we are working on the 3rd 9 weeks:
/th/ sounds in words. We again will identify where in the I’m, I’ll, I’ve
word we hear this sound? This week: had, love, friend
Writer’s Workshop:
Writing Letters—
Books we are Reading:
Look for a Special Delivery coming Little Bill’s
home on Friday Feb. the 13th.
Math-We have completed the lessons on dividing
Valentine’s Day
shapes equally. Along the same idea this week we will Mr. and Mrs. Bears
work on dividing groups of objects equally.
For example, If we had 6 cookies and 2 people. How Valentine,
Many cookies would each person get if we were to
Divide the cookies fairly? Obadiah
We begin by using real objects to represent the
Cookies. We use the one for me and one for you
Assessments—Continuation of Math Dibels individual
Strategy to pass out cookies until they are gone.
testing. The window for testing was extended.
We then identify if the groups are equal or fair.
We are also assessing counting sounds in words,
Then we answer the question of How many will each
dividing shapes equally, alphabetical principle-can
Person get? (Try this at home)
your child fill in the missing letters of the alphabel
without a model to look at?, recognition of numbers
to 20, sequencing numbers to 20.
Mrs. Hay’s Daily Dragon pg.2
More for this week:
I am still in the process of Don’t forget! This Friday is our Teddy Bear
doing rewards for homework activity Day!
turned in for January. Be Children should come to school with a teddy
bear on this day.
sure that you are currently Also bring a small blanket or towel that can fit
keeping up to date with your in your child’s backpack that they can sit on
the floor to have a snack time with their
February Homework Packet. teddy.
Thank you- We will make some special crafts and play
some games with our teddy bears on this day
and then have a snack with our friends and
bear friends to celebrate the end of our Bear
Theme.
- Reminders ! From the Teacher’s Desk:
Beginning today! Monday Feb. 9 your child th
can bring in their cards for their friends
Please be sure to follow the instructions for Our Friendship Celebration day will be this Friday the
our distribution and participation in this day. 13th-
We have 26 students in our class. I could use one more parent volunteer to run a
I do not have students write the names of the students that •
station. If you are interested and available from
they are giving the cards to on the cards—this causes chaos about 12:45 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. on Friday the 13th to
and confusion for this age of children-especially with 26 in a
help, please e-mail me at
class. If you are participating your child needs to bring 26
[Link]@[Link] as soon as possible.
cards please. Do NOT designate cards for boys or girls—all
cards are simply dropped in a pre-made carrier as students We will run stations during that time—any
walk down a line. volunteers need to be aware that they will be helping
We do not do the valentines at school they need to be ready with a group of students to facilitate an activity and
to go before you send them in. no siblings would be able to accompany you at this
Your child can send their Valentines in anytime between the time.
9th and the 13th. If you are sending candy it must be pre-
wrapped (enough for each child) and I really prefer you tape
We are looking forward to some fun activities for
it on the Valentine itself OR place it inside the envelope.
the afternoon of the 13th to do with our friends to
This really helps with distribution as well.
encourage our friendship atmosphere as a class.
Candy Gram info went home on
Friday-6 graders are doing this activity. As always
th
Have a wonderful week—
any money sent in for any occasion needs to be marked
specifically for what it is for and with your child’s name. Too
many items are collected for at school and I can not count on
your child to tell me what the money is for. Any unmarked
money will be sent home.
Candy Grams can be purchased for $1.00 until
Thursday the 12th. Our class will not participate in
Mrs. Hay
candy sales or Candy grams on Friday the 13th due to
Don’t forget to check out the online version of class
our own busy afternoon schedule.
activities at
Monday Feb. 16th- No school President’s [Link]
Day --students can liten to the post now instead of
you reading them ..simply with a click of the
