Valentine's Day

We will be handing out valentines Friday, February 13th.  If you choose to send in valentines, be sure your child has enough valentines for the entire class.  Here's our list:

1. Samantha

2. Ryan

3. Aidan

4. Ethan

5. Michael D-M

6. Connor

7. Emily

8. Dante

9. Olivia

10. Brady

11. Peyton

12. Jimmy

13. Ciara

14. Delia

15. Michael M.

16. Gracyn

17. Keira

18. Thomas

19. Sam

20. Maddie

21. Sophie

22. Colin

Student Portfolios

I hope everyone enjoyed their snow day!  If your child came home with his/her work portfolio, please remember to send it back to school tomorrow.  I always conference with children prior to their portfolios going home.  If your child didn't have one come home Friday, it will come home tomorrow after they've met with me to review their work!

Math Homework: January 26th

Play one or more of the following games. Write game(s) you played on tonight's detective report!

1.  Manny’s Rumba 

http://www.learningbox.com/base10/baseten.html

2.  Place Value Fruit Shoot

www.sheppardsoftware.com#291662

3.  Base Ten Bingo 

http://www.abcya.com/base_ten_bingo.htm

4. Base Ten Fun
http://www.abcya.com/base_ten_fun.htm
  

Ciara's Experiment

Check out what you can do with some water, pepper and a drop of dish detergent!

Delia's Experiment

Check out the latest experiment from this week's scientist of the week!

If you want to try this experiment out at home, here it is!

Blog Trivia

Welcome to our very first Blog Trivia! Email me the answers to these questions correctly by Thursday, January 22nd and receive 3 extra kid bucks!   Bonus: Answer the questions correctly in complete sentences and earn 5 extra kid bucks!  manderson@hanoverschools.org Good luck!

1. What is one type of force we learned about?

2.  What do you call the words that are listed in the dictionary?

3.  We know fables are fiction stories with characters, settings, a problem/main event, and a solution/ending.  What are the main ingredients to a fable?  (Hint: Think about the recipe written inside our fable pot.)

*If you are unable to email me the answers, write them on a piece of paper.

Read to Someone

We are working on learning the last of the daily five: Read to Someone!

Read to someone allows children to build fluency and comprehension skills while reading with a partner.  During read to someone we:

1. Sit EEKK (elbow to elbow, knee to knee)
2. Sit with the text in the middle
3. Get started right away
4. Read the whole time
5. Read with our eyes, brain, and voice!

Check out the kids practicing what Read to someone looks like: