News of the Week
February 29-March 4
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!
- It was SO nice to talk to many of you at conferences this week, thank you for coming in!
- We will visit the Book Fair on TUESDAY. Please send in cash or check (made out to Scholastic, with a spending limit written just in the memo spot, not totally filled out to allow for tax, etc).
- Mother-Son Bingo is Friday, March 4th! It is not too late to get tickets for this fun event!
- There is also an All-Pro Dad's Breakfast at 7:30am on March 4th!
- There is no school NEXT Friday, March 11th.
- Don't forget to log-on to My Payments Plus to pay for our March 21st field trip, the cost is $14 and the online payment option will end on March 10th. If you need a paper copy instead, please e-mail me.
- 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! **
End of 9-weeks Assessments
I will begin assessing the 3rd 9-weeks skills for report cards on March 1st (the grading period ends on March 10th). These are the Language Arts, Math, and Writing rubrics that will be used to assess your child and determine their report card grade.
Reading & Writing Skills of the Week
Reading:
- Becoming an avid reader
- Reacting to books
- Capturing our thinking about books
- Sight words: Review
- Retelling: Who was in the story? Where were they? What happened?
Writing:
- Writing about a world problem
- Sounding like an expert!
Ongoing...
- Beginning a sentence with a capital
- Capitalizing the pronoun "I"
- Ending punctuation
Math Skills of the Week
Numbers
- Compose (put together) and decompose (take apart) numbers between 11-19 into tens and ones.
- Write number sentences to match what we are doing, if we have a set of 10 plus 4 loose ones, it would be 10+4 or 14
Science & Social Studies Skills of the Week
Science
- What are rocks?
Social Studies
- President Obama
- Washington, D.C.
Links to Try...
Greg Tang 10-Frame Mania
http://www.abcya.com/base_ten_fun.htm
Greg Tang NumTanga
http://www.abcya.com/number_bubble_counting.htm
Sight Word Spelling Practice (Pre-Primer Level to start)