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Dates to Remember:

Wednesday, March 11 – Late start. School starts an hour later.

Thursday, March 12 – Turn in Fact in Pocket for the Week. This week’s fact: What are 3 things you need to go surfing?

Friday, March 13 – Half day for students. Dismissal is at 11:45 am. Don’t forget to turn reading log for the week. Bookmark contest entries are due.

Peek at the Week:

Daily Five/Literacy: Spelling words for week – “un” family run, sun, fun, bun. Sight words – is, has, for, are, you.

Fluency: I will send home a reading fluency sheet for short vowel “u”. Again, have your child read the fluency sheet 2-3 times for fluency practice. Practice buddy reading with your child and you read one sentence and have your child read the next sentence for fluency practice. When they hear another fluent reader that helps them to build their fluency.

Word work – review “l” blends – fl, bl, cl. New blends to learn pl, gl, sl – play, glove, sleep. Learning about CVCe – silent “e” words – “ake”, “ike” words such as; bake, make, take, like, bike, Mike.

Comprehension – reviewing elements of a narrative; characters, setting, action/events that take place in story, problem in story, retelling with a beginning, middle and end.

Writing – continuing with unit on Personal Narratives. Using a planner/organizer to help organize our writing.

Social Studies – continuing our unit on Geography. Study of the world with maps and globes. Learning how to read a map and make a map.

Math – This week we will not have math homework. We will work on unit assessments. I will send home a math review packet that covers number bonds, addition and subtraction.

Enjoy your weekend with the sun and warmer weather on Sunday. Don’t forget to Spring forward and set your clocks.

Mrs. Polgar

Dates to Remember:

Monday, March 2 – Book Fair 9-9:30 Mrs. Polgar’s class. Turn in fluency page for reading/comprehension questions.

We begin March is Reading Month at Howard. Don’t forget to make your goal of reading 120 minutes a week. Log your minutes starting this Sunday on your reading log sheet and turn your log sheet in on Friday, March 6.

Wednesday, March 4 – PBIS assembly at 8:50 am.

Thursday, March 5 – Every Thursday students earn a prize if they are caught with a tropical fact for reading month in their pocket. This coming Thursday research 1 interesting fact about Hawaii and put your fact in your pocket. Refer to March Reading Calendar.

Card marking 3 ends Friday, March 27. I will be assessing students the next 2-3 weeks on content covered in card marking 3. There will be a card marking 3 review guide for you to review with your child. I will put the review guide in take home folders on Monday.

On Friday, I put a reading fluency sheet in reading bags. The purpose for these fluency practice sheets is to build fluency with recognizing and reading CVC words and comprehending what we are reading. Please have your child read the passage 2-3 times for fluency practice. After they have read the passage go over the comprehension questions with your child for comprehension/understanding. If they are not sure what the answer is for a question, please have them re-read and underline the answer in the sentence. Please turn in on Monday, if you need more time you can turn in later in the week. I will begin including fluency passages on Mondays along with homework packets.

Peek at the Week:

Daily Five/Literacy – Spelling words – “op” family- mop, top, hop Sight words – my, go, in, he. Short “o” word work. Reviewing L blends – bl, cl, fl. Introduction to nouns – a person, place or thing.

Writing – We will begin a new unit on narrative writing. We will learn more about organizing our writing with a beginning, middle and end. Choosing a character, setting and adding action- an event to our stories. We will also review adjectives and add fancy words to our stories and review punctuation!!

Math – our focus will turn to subtraction. Lesson 20 – Take from with result unknown expressions and equations using the minus sign. Lesson 21 Subtraction stories using objects and drawings. Lesson 22 Decompose 6 using 5-group drawings. Lesson 23 Decompose 7 using 5-group drawings. Lesson 24 – Mid Module Assessment.

Social Studies – Due to the weather last week we will begin our unit on Geography this week on maps, globes and cardinal directions.

Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Polgar

Dates to Remember:

Scholastic Book Fair will be at Howard in library on Monday, February 24 – Friday, February 28.

Thursday, February 27 – Mrs. Polgar’s class scheduled for Book Fair 9-9:30 am. If you are interested in having your child purchase books from the book fair there is a order form in your child’s take home folder.

Friday, February 28 – Mrs. Alqaragholi (Leah’s mom) is a dentist and will visit our classroom and will give a dental presentation for National Dental Hygiene Month. This week we will focus on Dental care.

March is Reading month will be coming up so I will be sending out a calendar for guest readers to sign up to read to our class. If you or a relative would like to read to our class for the month of March, please let me know. Students really enjoy guest readers!!

Peek at the Week:

Daily Five/Literacy: Spelling words – “ig” word family – big, pig, dig Sight words – we a, and, come.

Word work – focus on short vowel “i” sound writing and blending words. Moving into L blends that begin with fl, bl, cl ( flap, flip, blend, blink, clap, climb). Substituting a beginning sound in CVC words. My word is sub if I change the “s” in sub to “t” what is my new word? (tub).

Comprehension – listening with understanding to directions. We will begin a unit in Social Studies on Geography and will focus on following directions. Focusing on cardinal directions – North, South, West, East and reviewing positional words such as, up, down, across, left, right, next to, behind, beside, etc.

Writing – We will start a new unit on How to Informational Writing. Focus will be on dental care and How to Brush Your Teeth. Students will learn sequencing in writing and apply transitional words; first, next and last.

Social Studies – Geography – we will begin our unit learning about maps and globes. Learning to read maps and globes and understanding what the study of geography is.

Math – Lesson 16 – Objective: Solve addend with unknown word problems to 8 with equations. Lesson 17 – Objective: Solve and put together with total in unknown word problems to 8 using objects and drawings. Lesson 18 – Objective: Solve both addends unknown word problems to 8 to find addition patterns in number pairs. Lesson 19 – Objective: Use objects/drawings to find how many are left. Lesson 20 – Objective: solve take from result unknown expressions equation using the minus sign with no unknown.

I hope everyone is enjoying a restful and fun break!

Mrs. Polgar

Dates to Remember:

Friday, February 14 – Mrs. Polgar’s Valentine’s Party 1-2 pm. We will celebrate by exchanging valentine cards with friends. Students will bring a decorated container or box for the occasion labeled with their name. We have 22 students in our class.

Monday, February 17 – Friday, February 21 Mid-Winter Break. Students return to school on Monday, February 23.

Peek at the Week:

Literacy – Spelling words – “et” word family – get, set, bet, met Sight words – from, red, love. Short “e” review with cvc word families. Rhyming and producing words that rhyme.

Writing – We will finish up on our informational writing unit on Penguins. Begin Valentine Opinion writing piece – I like Suzie because she is . . . We will learn about adjectives and how we can describe a friend with kind words – adjectives.

Math – Number bonds Lessons 11-12 decompose numbers 6-8 into number pairs. Lessons 13-15 Addition stories with totals of 6,7,8.

Social Studies – Comparing artifacts from present and past. Reviewing time elements/vocabulary.

We have been using another great web-site for word work in class. The web-site Turtle Diary is a great site to practice word families for upcoming spelling tests and sight word practice too. It also has math learning games that are great for practicing math skills at home. Here is the link: https://www.turtlediary.com. Also, https://www.roomrecess.com is another web-site we have been using in class that is good for practicing reading, word and math skills.

Mrs. Polgar

Dates to Remember:

Monday, February 3 – Spelling packet will go home for upcoming spelling test on Thursday. Usually spelling tests will be given on Friday with the exception of this week due to no school on Friday.

Wednesday, February 5 – Late Start – school starts one hour later.

Thursday, February 6 – 100th Day of School Celebration. Student’s can dress up like they are 100 years old for the day.

Friday, February 7 – No school for Kindergarten. Teachers will be attending a professional development workshop.

Friday, February 14 – Valentine’s Celebration 1-2 pm . We will celebrate by passing out Valentine cards to our friends in class. Students should sign their name in the FROM section only. This will make it easier for students to pass cards out.

Peek at the Week:

Spelling Words: “an” word family – can, fan, ran. Sight words – like, to, the.

Informational Writing: Arctic animals. We will finish up on our Polar Bears writing piece and start a new informational writing piece on Penguins.

Math: Module 4 – Lesson 6 – Represent number bonds with composition and decomposition story situations. Lesson 7 – Decompose 6 using story situations, objects and number bonds. Lesson 8 – Model decomposition of 7 using story situations, sets and number bonds. Lesson 9 – Model decomposition of 8 using story situations, arrays and number bonds. Lesson 10 – Decomposition 6-8 using link cubes to see patterns.

Science – Continue unit on Weather and severe weather types.

Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Polgar

Dates to Remember:

Monday, January 27 – Kindergarten will take the NWEA Math assessment in the morning. On Thursday, February 6 it will be the 100th day of school! A notice will go home on Monday to give you the details of how we are going to celebrate 100 days of school.

Upcoming dates and events in February:

Wednesday, February 5 – Late start. Students report to school one hour later.

Thursday, February 6 – Celebrate 100th day of school.

Friday, February 7 – No school for Kindergarten. Kindergarten teachers will be attending a professional development workshop.

Friday, February 14 – Valentine’s Day. Mrs. Polgar’s class will celebrate Valentine’s Day with a small party. More information will be coming soon!

Winter Break – No school February 17 – February 21.

Peek at the Week:

Social Studies: Look at time lines in history with historical figures; Abraham Lincoln. Students presented their timelines in class and really loved looking at their friend’s timelines. I enjoyed the pictures too!!

Science: We continue to look at the weather and learn new weather vocabulary.

Math – We will start a new unit with number bonds this week. Students will learn to decompose numbers 2,3,4,5 in different compositions. Finding the missing addend in a number sentence. 2+ ? =5.

Writing – Last week we had fun learning about Arctic animals. Each student chose an Arctic animal and in groups we learned; what Arctic animals eat, what color they are and why they are that color, what unique body parts they have, what they are (mammal, bird, etc.). Later, we wrote interesting facts in a short informational report.

This week we learn more about the Arctic Polar Bear. We will continue writing interesting facts that we learn about the Polar Bear.

Daily Five/Literacy – Sight words for the week: did, not, she. Digraph – “wh” whistle, whale, white. Short “u” vowel “ug” “un” family. tug, bug, bun, fun

We will take a practice spelling test on the word “at” word family – cat, mat, hat. Along with sight words – I, can, see. Again, this is a spelling practice test.

Beginning the week of February 3rd we will begin taking spelling tests on Fridays. A spelling packet will go home on Monday the week of a spelling test. Information will go home Monday, February 3rd.

Reports cards went home on Friday. If you have any questions regarding your child’s report card I would be happy to meet with you to go over the report card. NWEA results will go home at a later date as we have not completed assessments yet.

Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Polgar

Dates to Remember:

Monday, January 20 – No school in observance of Martin Luther King Jr.

Tuesday, January 21 – Half-day of school. Professional Development Day for teachers. Social Studies Timelines are due.

Peek at the Week:

Math – We will begin Module 4 in math the following week. We will be assessing the end of Module 3 and reviewing math concepts for the NWEA math assessment scheduled for Monday, January 27. So, there will not be any homework packets going home this week.

Social Studies – Students will present their timelines throughout the week. When we are finished with presenting our timelines we will display them in the classroom. You will get them back at the end of the month. We will review the terms past, present and future with historical examples.

Daily Five-Literacy – Sight words for the week – little, here. We will practice sight word sentences using the words little and here. (I have a little dog.) (Here is my coat.)

Digraph “ch” – writing and reading words with “ch” beginnings and endings.

Short vowel “i” study with “in” word family and “ip” word family.

Sequencing events in stories. We will read another version of the “Mitten” and compare story events and characters.

Writing – we will start a new informational writing unit on Arctic animals.

Science – We will continue to track the weather and discuss different types of severe weather.

Have a wonderful long weekend!

Mrs. Polgar

Dates to Remember:

Monday, January 13 – Along with homework math packets I will be sending home a Social Studies Timeline – All About Me. We will be learning about the terms present, past and future in Social Studies. To gain a better understanding of these terms I have provided a timeline along with directions.

The timeline is due Tuesday, January 21 on the half day. Students will present their timelines through the week of January 20th and their timelines will be posted outside of the classroom.

Students will also be taking the NWEA Reading Assessment on the computer in the morning. Once I have a date for the NWEA Math Assessment I will let you all know.

Tuesday, January 14 – I will not be in the classroom and I will have a substitute teacher. I will be attending a writing workshop all day.

Friday, January 17 – It will be a half-day of school. Dismissal is at 11:45 am.

There will be no school on Monday, January 20th in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. day. There will be a half day on Tuesday, January 21st. Teachers will be attending district professional development.

Peek at the Week:

Daily Five/Literacy – we will review short vowel “i” with the “it” and “ig” family. We will read and write digraph words with “sh” beginnings and endings (shark, shape, blush, mash, trash). New sight words for the week – said, this.

Writing – We will finish our opinion writing piece – My favorite Season. Start a new opinion piece, Do you like snow? Yes or No? because . . .

Science – We will begin tracking the weather on a graph this week. Learn about different types of severe weather; hurricanes, tornadoes.

Math – Lesson 28 – Comparison of Numerals Visualize quantities to compare two numerals. Clarification of Measurable Attributes – Lesson 29 – Observe cups of colored water of equal volume poured into a variety of shapes. Lesson 30 Use balls of clay of equal weights to make sculptures. Lesson 31 – Use benchmarks to create and compare rectangles of different lengths to make a city. Lesson 32 – Culminating task – describe measurable attributes of single objects.

Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Polgar