Hensley's Happenings
News from Miss Hensley's Class
January 18, 2019
News and Information
Book Orders are due Wednesday, Jan. 23
Winter Blues Dress Up Days
Jan. 25 crazy sock / hat day
Feb. 8 Favorite team day
Feb. 22 Farmer day
Mar. 8 Favorite storybook character day
Mar. 22 Island/ sunglasses day
Swimming is Coming- March 18th- April 3rd
Each child will need a swimsuit and towel daily. One piece suits for girls please! More info to come as the date nears.
If you’d like to sit with your child at lunch we’d love to have you. Lunch begins at 11:47 a.m. If you wish to eat the school lunch, please call the office to order a tray.
Reading
We continued our unit on summarizing using the strategy- "somebody, wanted, but, so then" for fiction stories. For non-fiction, we learned to find the main idea and 3-4 details and summarize using that information from the text.
Math
using the "hairy money" strategy to count a collection of coins
money word problems
Goals for Subtraction Facts
Level M by March 8
Level Z by May 22
Once a student reaches Level Z and can do at least 95 out of 100 subtraction problems in 5 minutes they move to multiplication facts.
English and Writing
In writing, we continued our non-fiction research on animals to prepare for our wax museum project.
English skills: an/ an, their, they're
Spelling Words
blew
threw
stew
grew
flew
dew
screwdriver
new
newspaper
crew
chew
jewel
Homework
Your child's nightly homework: Read 20 minutes every night!
Homework Helps and Hints
Middle of the year Reading Data-
Updated reading levels and word read per minute will be graphed inside Monday's data binder on the last 2 pages! Level K is the minimum expected level for the middle of the year. Students who are at or near the minimum expected level are most likely still having difficulties in reading and comprehension. We want them to be as far past the minimum level as possible to be ready for 3rd grade. Also, even though it might have the running man in the blue advanced area on the parent report that is coming home today, that does not necessarily mean your child is ahead of where they should be. mClass is an assessment to see who is at risk for reading problems. Children who fall into green or blue areas are children who are at less of a risk for having reading problems- it does not mean they are high ability or advanced for their grade level.Important Events
January
21 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day- We WILL have school
February
6 Midterms posted to Skyward
14 Valentine Party- will be an afternoon party 1:00-2:00
18 President's Day- no school unless needed for a make up day
March
8 End of 3rd Quarter
15 Report Cards posted to Skyward
18-22 Swim
25-29 Spring Break
April
1-3 swim
Contact Me
Email: staciehe@ohusc.k12.in.us
Website: https://sites.google.com/ohusc.k12.in.us/staciehensley/home
Location: 600 E Walnut St, Converse, IN, United States
Phone: 765-395-3341
Twitter: @staciehensley26