{"id":819,"date":"2017-12-15T14:46:57","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T19:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/mrsvensko\/?p=819"},"modified":"2017-12-18T09:34:01","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T14:34:01","slug":"news-from-mrs-venskos-room-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/mrsvensko\/2017\/12\/15\/news-from-mrs-venskos-room-27\/","title":{"rendered":"News From Mrs. Vensko’s Room"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Upcoming Events<\/b><\/p>\n

12\/18 \u2013 12\/20\u00a0<\/b>Candy Gram Sales<\/p>\n

12\/20\u00a0<\/b>Late Start<\/p>\n

12\/20\u00a0<\/b>Polar Express and Pajama Day (note came home on 12-15-17)<\/p>\n

12\/21\u00a0<\/b>Winter Party<\/p>\n

12\/22\u00a0<\/b>PBIS Celebration \u2013 Movie Theater (at Haigh)<\/p>\n

12\/25 \u2013 1\/5\u00a0<\/b>Winter Break \u2013 No School!!!!<\/p>\n

Agenda for the week<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The winter weather has arrived.\u00a0 Please label all of your child\u2019s winter clothing.\u00a0 If your child wears boots to school, please send in a pair of dry shoes to wear in the classroom. Please help your child to learn to zip, unzip, put on hats, mittens, coats, boots and snow pants by themselves. Parents will not be allowed in the building to help their child.\u00a0 \u00a0Remember, we are trying to teach independence.<\/span><\/p>\n

Reading\/writing\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0We worked on the letter Uu.\u00a0 \u00a0We began introducing sight words.\u00a0 This week we learned the sight word am.\u00a0 We are using I am as a sentence starter for writer’s workshop. Please continue helping your child write their first and last name at home.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0We are learning to stretch our words and write the sounds we here and we are learning to put a period at the end of our sentence. Keep practicing your letters and sounds.DON\u2019T FORGET TO DO READING EGGS AT HOME 3 DAYS A WEEK.\u00a0 We have been reading many versions of the Gingerbread Man.\u00a0 They did an excellent job disguising their Gingerbread Man.<\/p>\n

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Math<\/strong>\u00a0 We are working on sorting and measurement.\u00a0 \u00a0We are measuring things in our classroom.\u00a0 We will continue working on numbers from 0-20. Please\u00a0 have your child work on Math Seeds 3 days a week.\u00a0 We are working on counting to 20. We are learning to show the value of a number in different ways. \u00a0We are using our fingers, ten frames and tally marks to represent a number. We are playing math games in math workshop to help us learn numbers and their values.<\/p>\n

Social \u00a0Studies\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0We are learning the difference between goods and services.\u00a0 We turned the kitchen into a restaurant to help understand the concept of a service.<\/p>\n

Science\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0We are learning about the weather and graphing it for the whole month of December.<\/p>\n

Please make sure to\u00a0empty\u00a0<\/strong>the green folders each night! It is very difficult and time consuming to locate homework or important notes when the folder is full of papers from the day before. Remember to initial the communication log and feel free to add any notes to me!<\/p>\n

Snack\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>Please remember to send only healthy snacks like fruit, vegetables, and cheese and crackers.<\/p>\n

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