Good afternoon! I hope everyone is staying warm and dry today! We are currently having indoor recess and the kids are playing "Four Corners" which they LOVE! 😆 We had a great week and as I make my lesson plans for next week, I realize we are going to have a very busy week!
November 12th Hurricane Make Up Day and Veteran's Day Celebration
November 13th Laurel's Nursing Home 10:30-11:30 AM: Parents are welcome to join us! You may ride the bus or meet us there. I will add this on our Sign Up Genius for the week. We load the bus at CSD at 10:00 AM and the program is from 10:30-11:30 AM and we return to CSD by 12:00 PM.
November 14th Charlotte Children's Theater Field Trip: Please have your child to school by 8:00 am on this day. The bus will leaving CSD at 8:30 am sharp. We will eat lunch when we return to school so send a normal lunch. Please feed your child a big, protein-rich breakfast that will keep them full until lunch.
***I will be sending play lines home for the American Heroes play within the next two weeks. Just an FYI.
Math:
As we dive into our cluster 3 in math, students are learning how to apply their learning of place value in many different ways. They learned two math games this week to practice this skill and demonstrate their knowledge. The first one is called Ten Frames (11-19) and work on the student picking a number (11-19), building it on two tens frames using cubes, and then writing how many tens/ones they have and the corresponding equation. We want them transitioning to seeing numbers as tens and ones. We will continue to build on this knowledge and soon move into 20+ numbers where the students will have to work with more than one "ten."
Literacy:
Students continue to work hard during Daily 5 rotations and have the freedom to move from station to station within our one hour literacy block. We have different "word work" activities for them to do to practice their word study words. This past week we had whiteboards, rainbow word writing, word searches, and stamping. Students are making great progress with their guided reading books and that makes me so happy! Keep having your child read those to you Tuesday-Friday. Repetition with them is key in developing many crucial skills.
Thematic:
We studied Jackie Robinson and baseball this week during our thematic unit time. BIG thank you to Andy Cook (Laine's dad) for coming in to talk to us about baseball and his time playing baseball professionally. The kids loved having him here and were so excited that they each got one of his baseball cards. We started learning our "Break the Barrier" song that we will perform at our American Heroes play in January. We spent time reading and learning about Jackie Robinson and all of the things he had to overcome in his baseball career. The kids favorite center was making a baseball necklace out of a washer! They had to also write three facts they learned about baseball. I am turning it into a book that will travel home with different students each night. Next week we are studying soccer and Mia Hamm and will have another guest speaker from FSU's girl soccer team (thank you Melissa Rieser for the connection)!
Love,
Mrs. James
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