White's World

February 25-29

I hope you all had a GREAT long weekend last week. The children seemed rested and ready to go when they returned. I really enjoy this time of the year. It is so much fun to watch them working away. Their reading , writing and spelling all seem to start coming together. My how they are growing up!!

This week...

in Language Arts...

• we will be reviewing adding suffixes on to root words (ed, er, ing, s and es)
• we will learn when to use "a" or "an" ... example a comes before a consonant in a word and an comes before a vowel in a word ( "a" box and "an" apple)
• dictionary skills will be explored ( entry, definition, pronunciation, sample sentence, guide words)

in Math...

We began our standards with our unit on "time". Ask the children about the story "The Grouchy Lady Bug". The lady bug goes through each hour of his day. A really cute story to introduce time. As a follow up the children made a lady bug and their schedule for the day. We will continue time and facts to 18 this week.

in Reading... 

We will continue reading daily, taking AR test, working on story details and drawing conclusions.

I will also be testing a few children for their spring DRA levels.

Don't forget Reading Logs are due this Friday. I will send home the March log on Friday too. :-)

Social Studies...

We have been studing some of our past presidents. This week we will dive into the USA and many of it's important symbols. After I finish teaching the standards I will send home a study guide. Please review it with your child. I will let you know the test date in plenty of time.

Computer Lab: The children just love going to the computer lab on Fridays. We had GREAT fun with some new websites on "Time". Here they are...

Stop The Clock

Clockwise

Character Word: Cooperation/Sportsmanship.... Wow.... your children are really very good in cooperating and having sportsmanship! Keep up the Wonderful Job!!!!

Have a Fabulous Week!

February 25-29

Important Dates:

• Friday, Feb. 29th Book Log is Due
• Friday, Feb. 29th GM Talent Show
• Monday - Friday, March 3rd-7th Book Fair
• Monday, March 3rd Read Across America Day School Wide...pajama day, student reading pledge, visitors come to read to the class (watch for a note from me this week)
• Tuesday, March 4th Early Release Day 12:20
• Thursday, March 6th Math Curriculum Night 6:30 meet me in my room
• Friday, March 7th Spirit Day... Wear your Class T-shirt!

February 11th - 24th

It has been a very busy month so far! We had our buddy class over on February 1st. The two classes made groundhogs, worked word searches, and had fun with secret codes. The children learned the state of Georgia has it's very own groundhog named General Lee. We found out he has predicted that we will have an early spring. We will just have to sit back and watch the weather to see if he is right.

We also had fun learning about penguins. The children learned that penguins are birds that can't fly but can swim really fast. Be sure to ask them what other information they learned. It is also one of our first grade standards to write about information we have gathered. They did a fabulous job at it too!

February is a GREAT month for many of our Social Studies standards.   

We will learn about the United States of America, our past and present presidents, our flag, many landmarks and symbols. Last week we read all about "Honest Abe" and this week we will read and write about George Washington. We will continue our study with our current president and important symbols of the United States in the following weeks.

Math... We are having fun with our money unit and will be moving into telling Time next week. I expect them to do Great with the telling time for we have been working on it all year at Calendar Math.

Spelling... Keep working on those Sitton Core words with your children. They are learning to edit and proof for them in their own writitng here at school. I am very proud of their progress.

Here are 2 more websites that we did when we went to the computer lab on Friday!  The children are looking forward to me getting them to you! Have fun!!

Count Money

Pick-a-Coin

Character Word for the Week:

Acceptance... I like to teach the children to accept each other for who they are. We are all unique and wonderful individuals and need to recognize that in each other.

February 11th - 24th

LUNCH TIME CHANGE... we now go to lunch at 11:48 to 12:18. Come join us any time!

Finger printing is February 12th for all those who returned their form.

Thursday is Valentine's Day! Please remember to send your cards by Wednesday or Thursday.

Friday... BOX TOPS are due!

February 20th... The 6 hours Six Flags Reading form is due!

February 21st... Spirit Night at Chick-Fil-A at 5:00 pm

February 26th... Class Pictures

February 29th... Garrison Mill Talent Show... A GREAT family night out, The TEACHERS will be performing  too.  You wouldn't want to miss that either. :-)

********* Remember next week is a short week. Monday is President's Day and a Holiday for everyone. Tuesday is a Holiday for the students and an inservice day for the teachers.