News of the Week
January 25-29
Dear Parents,
Each week, please see below for the skills our class will be studying. Anything that you can do to support them at home is appreciated! You may notice that we spend more than one week on particular skills as they are meant to take longer than one week to cover in class.
- Mrs. Williams
Important Reminders!
- Box Top Collection Week starts Monday! Please send in any that you have saved throughout the year. Bags of 25 that are stapled to a collection sheet are preferred,, but you can also glue them to the collection sheet. FMES is trying to be the #1 collecting school in Georgia!
- STEM Night is on Thursday at 6:30pm and everyone is welcome! It will highlight the 4th and 5th grade science fair projects, as well as have STEM activities for all ages.
- I am going to be out of the classroom on Thursday for staff development, so I am going to have my substitute do a penguin study day with them since Penguin Awareness Day was January 20th. Our reading, writing, and science lessons will be wrapped around that topic. If they would like to dress in black and white that day, they can!
- Our eClass page now contains Homework Ideas for the Week... please visit our page to see the information! Scroll down for directions on how to log-on!
How to Log-on to eClass
1) Visit: https://publish.gwinnett.k12.ga.us/gcps/home/gcpslogin
2) Type in your child's student number (200....)
3) Their password is their initials, the month of their birthday, and the day of their birthday (i.e. mine would be lw1224)
** If content on our page is not loading, but sure to look in your address bar for the security shield and click 'load unsafe scripts' or whatever your wording may be! **
Reading & Writing Skills of the Week
Reading:
- Check your reading- does it make sense?
- Using consonants to help sound out words
- Preview the page to find words you already know before you start reading
- Sight words: are for
- Letter: V
- Similarities and difference between books on the same topic
- How does an author support their points?
- What are the key details in the book?
Writing:
- Using a personal word wall for words we spell a lot in our writing
- Having a beginning, middle, and end
- Persuasive/opinion writing
- Beginning a sentence with a capital
- Capitalizing the pronoun "I"
- Ending punctuation
Math Skills of the Week
Counting
- Counting to 100 by ones and tens
Numbers
- Compose (put together) and decompose (take apart) numbers between 11-19 into tens and ones.
Categories
- Sort objects into categories/groups and and count amount in each group.
Science & Social Studies Skills of the Week
Science
- How the sun helps us
Social Studies
- President's Day:
Learn about and discuss the contributions and traits of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, and the current president.
Links to Try...
ABCya! Great website with tons of activities!
http://www.abcya.com/kindergarten_computers.htmComparing Quantities Game
http://www.education.com/games/comparing-quantities-quiz/
Number Gator Song
http://safeshare.tv/v/ss56a160534f39a
Starfall (we use this in the lab and they love it)