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Week of 1-22-2018

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My goodness we are already reaching the end of January! I can not believe it. I am so proud of all our progress in Kdg and First grade this year! We are finishing the second report card marks this week and you will be receiving them along with the NWEA printout very soon! I also wanted to extend a special THANK YOU to Mrs. Saylor, Mrs. Miller and Mrs. Heaton for helping us pop popcorn on Friday and saving the day! The hungry little penguins of DuVall thank you as well!  As we head in to the week, here is what you need to know. If there is any new information I will send it out immediately! Have a wonderful week 🙂

Important Dates:

Every Tuesday: Library Check out

Friday 1-26-2017: 1/2 Day for Elementary Students

 

Spelling:

kdg: -et Family  *jet, wet, *pet, *get, vet, net, set, bet (*hot words are words guaranteed on test!)  this week we will focus on the short /e/ like elephant as well

First: -ing family sting, swing, spring, king, wing, sing, ring, bring, be, have 

Reading: Trade Book: The Case of the Stripes

Poem: Head and Shoulders

Math: Cont. addition and measurement First graders will take their unit 4 assessment this week!

Writing/Social Studies: Cont. publishing how we are “special” and unique. The theme of being special and unique also links to the new trade book “The Case of the Stripes” as well and the idea of being ourselves 

WE ROCKED THE NWEA!!!

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Dear families,

Our class wanted to share the awesome news that we have also rocked the math NWEA assessment last week! I am SO proud of the hard work, dedication to learning, enthusiasm and stamina your child has shown this year so far. What means the most to me as a teacher (and mother of a child who also takes these assessments) is that our children take it slowly and with meaning but do not put too much pressure on themselves. Now whatever the score, we will celebrate our efforts! We feel like eating PIZZA!!!

So, tomorrow afternoon, during our PM snack time, Mrs. Ross will be ordering 2 cheese and 2 pepperoni pizza to kick back, relax and celebrate our EFFORTS (although we also rocked our scores hee hee)!

In addition, I just wanted to sincerely thank you once again for sending such well rested, well prepared, enthusiastic young learners to school every day for me to love and love teaching! Thank you for ALL you do with them at home to teach and reinforce great learning. We are such a great team!

Sincerely,

Mrs. Ross and Class 🙂

Calling Popcorn Moms/Dads!

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Greetings dear families! I just wanted to send a message asking for about 2/3 parent helpers for popcorn tomorrow! If you are interested please reply 🙂 Thank you in advance for you help as usual!

 

In addition, I wanted to send a message about how proud I am of our class! we took our reading NWEA test today and we ROCKED IT! ALL students grew in their scores and skills and I am so proud!!! Tomorrow we will take the math section so make sure your darlings eat a great breakfast and get a good nights sleep!

 

Spellingcity.com

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Please visit our spelling page to view your child’s spellingcity.com username and password so they can visit the site a few times a week! This is a fun and effective way to practice spelling family words! New lists are on and ready to go! Have fun!

Weeks 1-8-2018 through 1-16-2018

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Welcome back! I hope you all had a wonderful and restful winter holiday and Happy New Year! Last week we came back to school and began our winter testing. We have a lot to do! I will be assessing your child’s growth for the second report card on all their reading skills in addition to their current reading level for the report card. Reading groups have not resumed yet, so please continue to read Raz-kids in addition to reading packs this week. I am almost done, so next week I’ll begin exchanging books again. We will also be taking the NWEA for math and science the week of January 22nd! I can not wait to see the growth we have made this year so far 🙂 Last week in kindergarten, we began our spelling lessons with the -at family. In addition, we studied the idea of the “short a”. I am pleased to announce that the class did a WONDERFUL job on their test Friday and showed a great level of comprehension throughout the week. We work on segmenting, and manipulating the sounds in the word families each week and I am pleased with our progress. This week we will move on to the -an family. Thank you in advance for spending a few minutes each night reviewing these words with your child. You’re amazing! Have a wonderful week and I will update/add to this post if needed.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Ross 🙂

 

Here is what you need to know for this week:

Important Dates:

*Wednesday January 17th: Late Start! 

*Pancake Dinner at DuVall Friday the 19th! 

 

Spelling words:

KDG -an family: can, man, ran, pan, fan, tan, ban, van

First: -ell family: tell, well, spell, fell, shell, bell, yell, smell, but, out

Math: addition, measurement

Addition focus in kdg and first and

non standard measurement in first

 

Writing: Inspired by MLK Day we are writing about kindness and why we are special and different

Reading: Trade book: Ron’s Big Mission by Rose Blue

Poetry: Freedom, Freedom

Merry Christmas and THANK YOU!

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Dear Families of room 106,

I just wanted to send out a message of love and gratitude to all my darlings as I sit here and drink coffee from my “Best Teacher Ever” mug!!! Thank you all so very much for SPOILING me with the most amazing children a teacher could ever dream of teaching and for the beautiful Christmas gifts. I love each and every one and think you spoiled me too much 🙂

Wishing you the most WONDERFUL, peaceful, restful, and healthy holiday and Happiest New Year!

Merry Christmas,

Love Maggie, Jeff, Benjamin and Antonia

Happy Snow Day!

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Dear Families,

I hope you all had a wonderful snow day! Because of today we are a little behind with science and other activities, however just reminding the First Graders that we WILL be having our spelling test tomorrow 🙂 I hope you all had a restful day!

Ps. The Holiday Party Sign Up Genius is ready to view for next week and I hope to see you next week on Friday at 1:30pm!

 

Week of 12-11-2017

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Greetings room 106! I am writing to you from home and I miss the class so much! I am feeling better every day and will be returning to school tomorrow yay! I was surprised to find I had the flu because I was NOT vomiting! My symptoms were an upset stomach, a high fever, loss of appetite and nausea and a NASTY cold and painful cough! When I went to the doctor they checked me for the flu and it was confirmed. So, if your child appears to have a bad cough/cold and a fever these next few months it’s definitely worth a trip to the doctors office!  I’ll be sure to let you know if and when students are feeling odd at school. Let’s hope this does not happen 🙂

This week in school here is what you need to know:

*Tuesday: 1st graders will take the overdue spelling test for the -ch words we studied last week! Sorry for the delay, but you have extra time to practice tonight!

*Wednesday: there is a Buffalo Wild Wings Event this Wednesday night (20% of proceeds come back to DuVall!)  See the link below to view the flyer!

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*The Annual DuVall sing a long will take place on Dec. 22, from 2:30 – 3:30 in the gym.  Parents are invited to attend and enjoy some holiday songs!

*Our classroom will be having a little Christmas party before the sing along on the 22nd of December! I will be setting up a sign up Genius and a special note just for this occasion this week! Thank you for your patience and in advance for coming to celebrate with us!

Academic Updates for the week:

Math: Students will finish Unit 6 on Teen Numbers 11-19 in KDG/1st and 1st graders will continue Unit 3 with a focus this week on story problems and base ten numbers

Science: Finish Force and Motion Unit with fun stations on Friday! (We’d love to have a few parents come in to help run a station if you’d like to come and have fun with us!)

Social Studies: Continue Needs and Wants Unit K/1

Writing: This week we cont. gathering information about “Snow” to write an informational piece! In addition, we continue our letters to Santa Claus! We could really use some parent publishers to help us if anyone is interested please let me know! We write every day in the afternoon!

Language Arts: This week we will begin reading the “Snowman at Night” book and next week the “Snowmen at Christmas” books. Students will compare the two books to see how they are similar and different!

Fun Project: This week we will continue reading about snow and having fun with a story called “Sneezy the Snowman”! The students will read, discuss and write about why Sneezy keeps melting! They will also make their own melted sneezy the snowman with shaving cream and glue!

Spelling: First graders will take the spelling test on Tuesday and work towards the next lesson as well. Thank you very much for your patience as I have been sick and out! If this ever happens, just keep studying the same list until we take it 🙂 I’ll send home the new list of words, suggested activities and flash cards tomorrow!

 

I hope this newsletter finds you all well! I will add or modify anything as the week progresses, just in case their are any important dates I have not written about!

Sincerely,

Mrs. Ross 🙂

Friday! Popcorn Sales!

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POPCORN SALES THIS FRIDAY!!!

Dear kdg/1st grade families,

Attention Mrs. Ross’s Class WooHoo!!!!!!!! This Friday the 8th will be our first one! Please respond or see Mrs. Ross is you would like to help us pop and deliver the popcorn. We need a small group of parents. I thank you in advance for your help.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Ross and Class!