{"id":2300,"date":"2019-12-13T09:55:16","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T14:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/ruselink\/?p=2300"},"modified":"2019-12-13T09:55:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T14:55:18","slug":"friday-newsletter-12-13-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/ruselink\/2019\/12\/13\/friday-newsletter-12-13-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Newsletter 12-13-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News and Information:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Late Start: 12-18-19<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Classroom Holiday Party: 12-19-19 (Thursday) 2:30-3:30 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What We Did This Week<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We visited art, gym and music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ELA (English Language Arts):&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have met all of our Alpha Friends and we are reviewing letter names and sounds. We are also discussing basic concepts of print and studying the difference between a letter and a word.&nbsp;<strong>We continue to read big books and discuss concepts important for reading.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We rotated through Daily 5 and students met with me in small literacy groups. Students are beginning to bring home practice bags (please keep them in the student\u2019s backpack).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Writing:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students continue to write with detail in their journal. In addition they are helping me write stories, recording specific sounds they hear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are introducing informational writing.  Writing that tells facts.  We wrote about snowflakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Math:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We continue our Measurement unit with exploring using a balance. We introduced the vocabulary \u201cheavier than\u201d and \u201clighter than.\u201d  We introduced the vocabulary &#8220;equal to.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Social Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We cut and pasted and sorted pictures of Needs and Wants.  We introduced the word &#8220;good&#8221; and next week will discuss what a &#8220;service&#8221; is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have a great weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News and Information: Late Start: 12-18-19 Classroom Holiday Party: 12-19-19 (Thursday) 2:30-3:30 p.m. What We Did This Week: We visited art, gym and music. ELA (English Language Arts):&nbsp; We have met all of our Alpha Friends and we are reviewing letter names and sounds. We are also discussing basic concepts of print and studying the [&hellip;]<\/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-2300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/ruselink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300","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=2300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/ruselink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2301,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/ruselink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions\/2301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/ruselink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/ruselink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/ruselink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}