{"id":1433,"date":"2018-02-08T19:21:40","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T00:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/ruselink\/?p=1433"},"modified":"2018-02-08T19:21:40","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T00:21:40","slug":"friday-newsletter-2-9-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/ruselink\/2018\/02\/08\/friday-newsletter-2-9-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Newsletter, 2-9-18"},"content":{"rendered":"

News and Information<\/strong><\/p>\n

Classroom Valentine’s Day Party, Wednesday February 14th, 9:00-10:00 a.m.<\/p>\n

Winter Break, February 19th-23rd<\/p>\n

Valentine\u2019s Day Cards<\/strong><\/p>\n

Please remember to have your student just\u00a0sign his\/her name to their cards.\u00a0 They do not need to address them to classmates.\u00a0 This will make handing out cards easier.\u00a0 Thanks for your help!<\/p>\n

What We Did This Week<\/strong><\/p>\n

We introduced our Alpha Friend Iggie Iguana, Ii<\/p>\n

We colored the letters , colored letter pictures, and worked in our poem books.<\/p>\n

We introduced the sight word: and<\/p>\n

We continue to explore informational writing.\u00a0 We wrote to tell about Koala Bears and Snow Leopards.<\/p>\n

We read new stories that we got from the Book Fair.<\/p>\n

We reviewed in our Handwriting books using our \u201cthree finger squeeze\u201d and\u00a0working with\u00a0the \u201cmagic C\u201d \u2013 \u201cbig curve.\u201d\u00a0 We learned and practiced capital S.<\/p>\n

We are counting to 100 using songs and our math grid.<\/p>\n

We also practiced counting by 10\u2019s to 100.<\/p>\n

We\u00a0played the\u00a0math game called \u201cTop It\u201d<\/p>\n

We continue our number talks and building numbers on the \u201cten frame.\u201d<\/p>\n

We also continue to practice our number formation.<\/p>\n

We introduced addition with simple number stories.<\/p>\n

In Science we talked about the season our birthday falls in and the differences we see\u00a0between seasons.<\/p>\n

We visited our special classes, Gym, Art, Music and Media<\/p>\n

We attended First Class and discussed the Habit of Win-Win.\u00a0 We also attending our monthly assembly.<\/p>\n

Our class won the “Golden Shoe” award for outstanding behavior in gym class!!!<\/p>\n

In Second Steps we continue to practice reading emotions and having empathy.\u00a0 We talked about accidents and how to communicate and apologize to friends.<\/p>\n

We rotated through our Daily 5 Literacy Centers.<\/p>\n

We enjoyed Free Choice.<\/p>\n

Students should be bringing home Literacy Bags daily with either a book to read or an alphabet game to play (sight word flash cards are coming soon).\u00a0 Students can keep this literacy bag in their backpack until I meet with their group weekly.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you have any questions please let me know.<\/p>\n

Happy Snow Day!<\/p>\n

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News and Information Classroom Valentine’s Day Party, Wednesday February 14th, 9:00-10:00 a.m. Winter Break, February 19th-23rd Valentine\u2019s Day Cards Please remember to have your student just\u00a0sign his\/her name to their cards.\u00a0 They do not need to address them to classmates.\u00a0 This will make handing out cards easier.\u00a0 Thanks for your help! What We Did This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":240,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/ruselink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/ruselink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/ruselink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/ruselink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/ruselink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/ruselink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/ruselink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/ruselink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/ruselink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}