Galaxy 26 Gazette
News from Miss Hensley's Class
February 19, 2016
News and Information
If you'd like to help with swim snacks, please click the link below and (HOPEFULLY!) you'll be able to type your name in one of the dates.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SA-XHYn5hMG33wnpRQhexlCphEzcrOHJ0-AP3u5a34I/edit?usp=sharing
Swimming Continues all next week!
Literacy Night- March 1 6:15-7:45
Come and participate in learning activities and games to help improve your child's literacy skills. There will be a free book for all Converse students, snacks and a drawing for some awesome prizes! Hope to see you there!
Motivational Videos
Reading
We began a new unit using inferences to make predictions. Instead of just “guessing” a prediction, we are looking for clues from the text/ pictures along with using sour background knowledge to make the most logical prediction that we can.
Reading Homework - They will read 1 passage, answer some comprehension questions and do some word work and vocabulary activities. Because this is a little more work than reading for a minute each night, it will be worth 10 points toward their reading grade each week.
Math
- -6 facts
- solving a problem by guessing and checking
- subtracting 2 digit numbers
- covering the same design different ways using tangrams
English and Writing
Research, research, research. We have for all intensive purposes, finished our wax museum research. Whew! This was a lot of work for our little, growing brains. We had to use different websites like Biography.com, Findagrave.com, and also the Google Search feature to find our information. We were able to talk about "safe" searching and how to read the captions on each search hit to see if that might even be a site we wanted to look at for our research. They did an awesome job and mostly they did it ON THEIR OWN, with just a little help from me.
In English we continues unit 4: subject/ verb agreement
Data Binders- Look for them Monday!
Homework Helps and Hints
Your child is at the age where they can be responsible for more age appropriate tasks- emptying and filling backpacks (that should already be happening!), folding laundry, dusting and vacuuming, picking up and putting away items that belong in other rooms, setting the table, picking up things in the yard and emptying the dishwasher are all things that 8-9 years olds can do. Just make sure you show them how you want it done first, or it might not get done the way you’d like J. A difficult concept for some children to learn is that we have to do things even though we don’t want to and we have to do them without rewards. In order for kids to be responsible, we must teach them what that looks like and we must practice at home as well as at school. By adding in these small jobs, kids learn life skills and that some jobs are not a choice, but a “have to.” I found a list of suggested skills by age that I have attached. Of course, the skills are suggestions, not a hard fast list of things you must be able to do. The link is attached below.
Check out the video starring Your Funny Valentine's!
Leaving this up for one more week just in case you missed it last week!
Important Events
February
19-March 3 Swimming
22 Skating Party 6-8 @ Idyl Wyld
March
1-3 Swimming
11 End 3rd Quarter
15 Report cards posted in Skyward
21-25 Spring Break
Contact Me
Email: staciehe@ohusc.k12.in.us
Website: https://sites.google.com/a/ohusc.k12.in.us/miss-hensley-s-class/
Location: 600 E Walnut St, Converse, IN, United States
Phone: 765-395-3341
Twitter: @staciehensely26