Room 11 News 19-20

Happy Memorial Day! Special's plans will be forwarded if they contain attachments. I cannot believe this is the end of our year together. I am so proud of each and every one of you for working so hard and adapting to the e-learning adjustments over the past few months. I am very sorry that our time was cut short, but I know that you are all prepared and ready for second grade! Please, please remember to stop by our room to say hello to me in September and I look forward to giving you all a big hug! Lucky for me, I will get to see each and every one of you on your way to the bathroom everyday!!!  I really will miss you all so much next year in room 11! You've been a great class and we've had so much fun learning together. I will miss our after lunch Junie B stories most of all! Reading with all of you brought us lots of laughs!  Parents, we are at the end of our books. Over the summer, please use the few remaining lessons as enrichment. As always, we require readi

Boys and girls, I wanted you to know how proud I am for the excellent job you all did on your animal projects! I had so much fun watching them and loved hearing you tell me what you learned from your research! A superior job done by all of my students!!!! This week is a short week as we don't have school Thursday or Friday. Enjoy your long weekend! Monday Math lesson 11.4 pp. 651-656. ELA- Discuss special stories we've heard over and over again and how a story can be a treasure. New words for "W" copybook: draw, colors, over, drew, great, sign, show.  Write words 2X each in your "W" copybook. Vowel digraph "ea" has 2 sounds,  it is a vowel team  and can have the long e sound like in the word eat. It can also make another sound where the e is short like in the word bread. Look at pp. 54 and 55 in your hardback reading book and listen for the sounds as you find 2 things that rhyme with reach. Find a picture that rhymes with head. Say the so

I hope you all had a wonderful and relaxing Mother's Day.  This week's plans will be a little different than previous weeks.  Our ELA activities will focus on animals since it would have been the week we attended our zoo trip.  Friday would have been our Spirit day, activities have been planned by student council - Please see the newsletter that was sent out last Thursday for games that your whole family can enjoy! A small animal project will be assigned this week and due by Friday on Flipgrid. The animal project will count for a Reading and Writing grade. Have fun and be creative!  There will be no new sight words for this week but please continue to practice all words from previous weeks. I would like you to talk about and review some key animal vocabulary words with your child to help them with this week's focus:  endangered, habitat, exhibit, mammal  Monday  -  Math - Read the Math story "On the Move" on pages 621 to 626 Compete "Wr

Happy May! We are in the homestretch with only 17 more academic days left until the end of the year. We are off on   5/ 21, 5/22, and 5/25. Last day of e-learning is 5/29. May 11th was supposed to be our field trip to the zoo so we will be doing animal-related activities. Hopefully, everyone had an opportunity to pick up their supplies in the Narthax over the weekend. Daily Zoom sessions at 9:30 for math and teaching of new concepts in ELA. Monday Math lesson 10.5 -  reading tally charts pp. 599-604.  ELA - New words this week are: give, surprise, would, enjoy, worry, about. Write words 2X each in your "W" copybook. Preview our new story, Mama's Birthday Present in unit 4 by looking at pp. 12. Discuss what it means to treasure something. Share ideas about surprises and talk about how a surprise can be a treasure. Look at pp. 14 and 15 and find all the pictures that have the long a sound. Long a can be spelled using digraphs ai and ay.  Look at pp. 16 and 17 a