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Week of February 24th!

Monday

We had MAD time.  We practiced our Jolly Phonics sounds with a partner.  We saw how wood changed shapes with using sandpaper.  We also make plywood by gluing thin pieces of wood together.  We wrote our numbers to 30.  We had Music.  We practiced writing words.  

Tuesday

We played Bang! with our sight words.  We did exercise.  We read a story called Duck and Goose.    It was a story about friends working out their differences.  We practiced reading our new sight words.  We focused on make and play.  We fixed sentences with Mrs. Jedlicka and then we wrote a sentence.  We had Guidance.  She talked with us about learning how to focus and be good listeners to directions.  We did the Star of the Week.  We made Kaiden’s book and did Garret’s Star of the Week pictures.   We had PE.

Wednesday

We wrote words and then checked to see how many sounds we got correctly.  We read a story called Zin, Zin The Violin.  We read stories at our table spots to practice reading our sight words in books.  We wrote in our School to Home journals.  We love reading what our parents and/or siblings write back to us.  We practiced putting the numbers in order counting by 10’s.  We had library.

Thursday

We did centers today.  We wrote sight words, played Sight Word Bingo, read books, played on the computer, did a Scholastic News, and we created things with magnets and animals.  We had snack in the middle school cafeteria for a smiley reward.  It was fun.  We went to the computer lab for computer time.  We had music.

Things to work on: sight words and reading books with them to see there sight words in print and in a story.

Upcoming Events:

*March 3rd-Parent Teacher Conferences

*March 6 and 7th-Mrs. Jedlicka gone to All Iowa Dance

*March 4th-Ronald McDonald Assembly

*March 17th-21st -Spring Break

Star of the Week!

Kaiden was Star of the Week!

Star of the Week!

Shelby is Star of the Week!

Our Valentine Bags!

We had fun opening our Valentine's.  Click below to watch our video!

http://youtu.be/FO1WK2RvEJU

Fishing Song

We did a fun Fishing Song with Diane today.  Click below to enjoy it!

http://youtu.be/OT_Sxr9H4qY



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Diane Wallick's Visit

Diane Wallick came today for Valentine's Day.  She read books to us and we did a fun song!  She also brought goodies from the Tipton Public Library for us!  We had a ton of fun with her!

Valentine's Day Fun!

We got to make Splat the Cats for the Tipton Public Library.  We frosted sugar cookies and ate them.  We filled our friends' bags with Valentines!

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Week of February 10th!

Monday

We had a late start today.  We worked on our new sight words.  We read a story called Nicky and Rainy Day.  We wrote a story about a picture that was on our paper.  We practiced our I can for writing focusing on our 5 parts.  We made our Star of the Week book for Jacub.  We had music.

Tuesday

We had another late start day today!  We worked on how many sounds were in a word and blending those sounds to read words.  We worked on our sight words with a partner.  We read Sheep Take a Hike.  We practice working on a ten frames in math be making a book.   We had PE.

Wednesday

We played Bang!  with a partner to practice our sight words.  We wrote words using sounds and then we checked to see how we did getting the sounds down on the paper.  We read a story in our student book called Go For It.  We read that same story with a partner.  We practiced writing numbers to 30 together and then we practiced on our own.  We had Art.

Thursday

We did Yoga for our exercise.  We worked in six different centers practicing words, eating snack, adding dice, making words, reading a story or two, and working on the computer.  We had a visit from a Dairy Princess.  She talked to us about cows and eating healthy.  We decorated our Valentine’s Day bags.  We had music.Things to work on: sight words and reading books with them to see there sight words in print and in a story.

Upcoming Events:

*February 19th-Early Out-I will be gone that day to see my son Adam in Des Moines.

*February 27th-Conferences

Yoga

We have been starting our Thursdays with Yoga.  Thursdays seem to be a difficult day for all of use to settle in and do our jobs.  We are doing Yoga to help "center" us :).

Click below to see the video!

http://youtu.be/GKWdHjQ_MDM

Dairy Princess Visit

We had a Dairy Princess visit us today to tell us all about what it means to be a Dairy Princess and about the importance of eating healthy.

Love this!

Star of the Week!

Jacub was the Star of the Week!

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Week of February 3rd!

Monday

We had MAD time today.  We wrote our sight words with our carpet partner.  We read a story in our student book.  We worked on blending sounds to make words.  We practiced writing our numbers from 1-30.  We made Zoe’s book for Star of the Week.  We had art.

Tuesday

We did exercise today to get out our wiggles.  We wrote words from Mrs. Jedlicka’s Mystery Word Jar and then we wrote with markers to check how we did.  We read a student book.  We read that story to our carpet partners.  We had WIN today.  We wrote in our Home to School Journal.  We love those!!  We started to learn about 10 Frames.  We made Valentine’s Day Bugs to decorate our room.  We had music.

Wednesday

Snow Day

Thursday

We had a Late Start today.  We watched the story The Mitten being read on a video.  We had Guidance.  We are learning about what our job is at school in Guidance.  We had WIN.  We worked on making 10 Frames today in math.  We had PE.

Please really take a look at the ICan purple pages.  The words that are not circled are words your child needs to continue to work on learning how to read.  We have been practicing these everyday at school together in class as well as each student has a packet of sight word cards they need to work on that we are using.  Please go through the purple page with your child.  Talk with them about what they are doing really well and what they need to work on.  I have done that in class today, too.  We will move on next week to the new set of sight words and the new unit in reading.  That means 6 more sight words!!!!

Upcoming Events:

*February 14th-Valentine’s Day Party

*February 19th-Early Out

*February 27th-Conferences

Star of the Week!

Zoe was the Star of the Week!!