{"id":1801,"date":"2017-01-12T15:03:19","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T20:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/?p=1801"},"modified":"2017-01-12T15:03:19","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T20:03:19","slug":"january-16-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/2017\/01\/12\/january-16-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"January 16, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow, the Social Studies Timelines look fantastic!! \u00a0We took quite a bit of time sharing each student’s timeline. \u00a0They were very intrigued with the early photos. \u00a0Some of them (Claire Brice) haven’t changed all that much, while others have changed a lot. \u00a0I showed the baby-1 year old photos and they tried to guess the student. \u00a0So much fun. \u00a0I want to keep them for a while because they are so interested in them. \u00a0Mrs. Chami and Mrs. Fawaz, they had A LOT of questions for you as to how you could tell “Which baby is which??” So cute! They also enjoyed reading the words that they wrote under each picture. \u00a0I love this interest.<\/p>\n

To go with their growth, I am sending home a picture that they made last September. \u00a0Some tried to hand it back to me saying that it wasn’t their picture, that they don’t write or draw like that. \u00a0I told them to look at how much they’ve grown from September to now. \u00a0Just 5 months!<\/p>\n

READING-I am sticking with the general theme of ANIMALS, but I’m going way off the grid for the next 2 weeks! \u00a0I’ll be doing ENDANGERED ANIMALS. \u00a0We’ve already started talking about some of the animals and I showed them how I used technology to find information. \u00a0They are very intrigued and excited about this unit. \u00a0I have chosen 4 animals and we will study, research, and chart information about each animal. \u00a0Look and listen for new vocabulary to come home regarding the animals.<\/p>\n

WRITING-The animals<\/p>\n

LETTERS-Q q \u00a0Z z<\/strong><\/p>\n

WORDS-lives \u00a0habitat<\/p>\n

MATH-We will continue to create numbers with the math manipulatives. \u00a0You can do this at home…use pencils to represent the 10’s and buttons, pennies, Cheerios, to represent the 1’s. \u00a0Ask your child to “Make the number 36.” \u00a0That would be 3 pencils and 6 buttons. \u00a0Place the pencils on the left side and buttons on the right side, just like we read (left to right).<\/p>\n

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It will look something like this.<\/p>\n

Today we went up to 138. \u00a0Keep going as long as they get the process. \u00a0Practice counting by 10’s and adding on 1’s.<\/p>\n

SCIENCE-Weather<\/p>\n

Another suggestion…many of them keep asking me how to spell words, which is VERY typical and expected. \u00a0I’m sure they do the same at home. \u00a0That’s a good thing-that tells me they are interested in writing. \u00a0So, give them things to write that they will need to sound out the words. \u00a0Not just copying your words! \u00a0Copying doesn’t make them”power through” the word, stretching it out, listening to the sounds that their mouth is making. \u00a0Have them write Thank you notes to Grandma\/ Grandpa\/Aunt\/Uncle\/Cousins\/Neighbor. \u00a0Have them write the grocery list, the things you need to do this Saturday, etc.<\/p>\n

Make my bed<\/p>\n

Put away my shoes<\/p>\n

Go to the bank<\/p>\n

Grocery shop (have them make the list) \u00a0milk,<\/p>\n

bread,<\/p>\n

eggs<\/p>\n

chicken<\/p>\n

They can do so much. \u00a0Set your expectations and hold them to those expectations.<\/p>\n

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Have a great week.<\/p>\n

Mrs. Smith<\/p>\n

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Wow, the Social Studies Timelines look fantastic!! \u00a0We took quite a bit of time sharing each student’s timeline. \u00a0They were very intrigued with the early photos. \u00a0Some of them (Claire Brice) haven’t changed all that much, while others have changed a lot. \u00a0I showed the baby-1 year old photos and they tried to guess the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}