Winters' Wonderings
Week of October 8-12, 2018
The Week in Review...
- Learned we have to DREAM BIG for ourselves in order to have success in our lives and that the EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE Mindset is about shooting for the stars and working toward that every single day.
- Have been working very hard on our addition fact fluency!! We are all "rocketing" toward success!
- Have finished up our unit on shapes and attributes. We will be testing on Wednesday.
- Learned how to write simple sentences with a subject (who/what) and a predicate (what the subject does). This will help us write better sentences.
- Have been continuing our unit on Story Structure by reading Teacher's Pets. We learned how to do a 5 finger Retell and identify the main characters and setting, the problem, solution and the sequence of events in order. This is an important skill for understanding the literature we read.
- Have been learning about Buoyancy and the factors that cause things to sink and float in Science. This has been a fun Unit and we will continue it into next week.
Friendship is a Beautiful thing!
Everything Is Possible Mindset in Action!
7 Mindsets in Action: Dreamboards...
We will be creating Dreamboards in class in a couple of weeks.
- Please chat with your child about what your dreams for them are and what their dreams for themselves are.
- Help them to narrow their focus to about 4-5 dreams for their dreamboard.
- Help your child also by gathering pictures from magazines and/or photographs or they are free to draw a picture of their dreams, as well.
- Send in any dreamboard supplies at anytime.
Thank you for your help on this project! It will be so fun to see how these come together!
Up This Week...
- Mindset of the Month
Everything Is Possible
Weekly Lesson 2: Believe in Yourself
LANGUAGE ARTS
- Reading
Comprehension Skill-Story Structure
Comprehension Strategy-Analyze/Evaluate
Story of the Week-The Ugly Vegetables - Spelling/Phonics
long vowel sound a, i (spelled with silent e) - Grammar
4 types of sentences--Statement, Question, Command, Exclamation - Writing
Personal Narrative-Writing a small moment story
MATH
- Test on Topic 15: Shapes and Attributes on Wednesday
- Fact Fluency DAILY (please make sure students are practicing 5 minutes a day at home)
- Beginning Topic 1--Fluently Add and Subtract within 20
SCIENCE
- Sink or Float
Mon., Oct. 8--Fire Safety Presentation
Wed., Oct. 10--2 HOUR LATE START--bring 50ยข to wear a cap
Fri., Oct. 12--Grandparents'/VIP Day 1:00pm
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This Week's Specialists Are...
Tuesday-Day 2-Music
Wednesday-Day 3-Gym
Thursday-Day 4-Library
Friday-Day 1-Art
Upcoming Events...
Oct. 18 & 19 NO School MEA
Nov. 2 No School -Teacher Work Day
Nov. 5 Conferences - 3:45- 7:45
Nov. 8 Veterans Program/Conferences - 3:45- 7:45
Nov. 9 No School-Teacher InserviceContact Ms. Winters...
Email: cwinters@isd2397.org
Website: https://park.isd2397.org/cms/One.aspx?portalId=108797&pageId=166557
Location: Park Elementary, Rm 109
Phone: (507)665-4759