Week of February 25-March 1

Spelling words:
Use, June, tune, flute, cute, mule, done, after, woke, nose

Challenging Spelling words: 
amuse, clues, blue, parachute, prune, perfume, assume, creation

Please practice these and be ready for a test on Friday. Also, on Friday we plan to take a math test over place value, comparing numbers, and number patterns. To study for this, you may give your child a set of numbers up to the number 20 and ask them to put them in order from least to greatest or greatest to least. Also, we have talked about groups of ten and ones. For example, the number 18 has 1 group of tens and 8 extra ones. If your child is able to understand place value in first grade, it makes math much easier in future learning! Number patterns mean knowing what number comes next. For example, 2, 4, 6, what number comes next and how do you know? If your child needs manipulatives to help, you can always use a cereal to help do grouping.

In reading, we are working on inferring. Good readers infer. This means, good readers can use what the book says and use them as clues to tell them more. For example, if you went through my trash can and found a tootsie pop wrapper, you could infer I like suckers. So even though I didn't directly say, "I like suckers." you can use clues you find to help you infer. At home when you read, what can you infer about the characters?

Have a superb week and let me know if you ever need anything! 

Mrs. Davis

From the words of Dr. Seuss, "Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered!"

Career Day and Math with Mr. Davis

Last Friday, Mr. Davis came in and taught us a new math game. We had to count by 5's and make groups of 5. On our family night, we think this may be one of the games we teach our families how to play! We loved meeting Mr. Davis and they think it is SOOOOOO cool that there is a Mr. and a Mrs. Davis!

We also had career day this Thursday where the students did many things. They loved learning about chemical reactions with science where they made fake snow and gel worms. They learned about coal trains and other great things. Ask your child what their favorite station was at career day! Please leave a comment!

Week of February 19-22

Spelling words: 

From the blue list: some, stop, take, thank, them, then, think, walk, were, when

Vocabulary words: find, after, done, old, new, work

**To practice vocabulary words, your child should be able to use the word in a sentence correctly and spell it correctly so they can use it in their stories during writing.

With Monday having no school and another crazy week. Please have your library books for checkout by Wednesday!

Thursday we will be having career day. After Thursday, please comment about your favorite part of career day and why. 

Friday is early release so please make sure your child knows what to do after school. If it is different than normal, please send your child with a note. If you are having any issues with the online resources at home, please comment on that blog to tell me about it so I may try to fix it for you. If you are reading this, please tell Mrs. Davis that the secret word is triangle to get your prize!

**Remember to keep practicing your counting to 120 by 1's, 5's, and 10's. The sooner we get this learned, the better our math groups can be!

Valentine's Day with Stacey Bess

On Valentine's Day, we had a great party! We opened our Valentine's which had lots of cards with tattoo's, toys, and some candy. After opening their bags, they enjoyed some fruit from the fruit buffet we had. I also couldn't resist and let them enjoy 2 pieces of candy! Of course, the messiest and most colorful candy of all was a huge hit! Fun Dip is a great way to turn mouths green and blue and get the sugar rush going! After enjoying the valentine's, we played a little freeze dance before recess.

At the end of the day we had a guest speaker. Her name was Stacey Bess. Mrs. Bess is a teacher from Salt Lake City who taught at a homeless shelter. She taught the students lessons about the small things in life we take for granted. Her ultimate message that she ended with was to include people who don't have anyone else to play with on the playground. She showed the students many artifacts from students who she used to teach and impacted her life. I think some kids really understood her message and took it very serious. She has written a book which was made into a movie. The movie name is "Beyond the Blackboard".

Enjoy some picture from our day :)

Haydn with his Fun Dip smile!

Kylie and Dakota looking at their cards and socializing :)

Jacinta, Chris, and Tamara enjoying their goodies!

Miss Farrell trying to tame the sugar kids!

Asher and Silena eating their pieces of candy

Raylin wanting a Fun Dip picture too!

What do you call this move Tom??

Freeze Dance

Freeze Dance got a little wild!

Busting a move!

Using the tables to do tricks!

And.... Freeze!

Mrs. Bess with her magical bear.

Mrs. Stacey Bess presenting

Enjoying the stories

Mrs. Davis met Mrs. Bess and got her book signed!

Miss Farrell met Mrs. Bess as well!