Our first week was FABULOUS!! I feel so fortunate to have such an amazing class with wonderful parents!! Our focus for the first week has been working on routines and getting to know one another.
We have also started our first writing assignment--a riddle about ourselves. This assignment will take students through the entire writing process from prewriting to publishing. I am expecting that our finished product will be bulletin board ready by about September 4th.
Our first project is also well underway. The focus is learning the Tribes Agreements--Attentive Listening, Mutual Respect, Appreciations, No Put-Downs, and Right to Pass, well enough to teacher younger students about them through a skit.
In math we have be working on counting by ones and tens recording 2-digit numbers up to 100. We are also reading and writing 2-digit numbers up to 100.
We will start our math homework this week. Below I will list the schedule for the week. We will be working with the math program IXL. I know most of you worked with this program over the summer with your child’s summer math work. I want to stress that your child does not need to work more than 15 minutes per night on the assigned objective. If that amount of time is too frustrating for your child please contact me so that we can adjust the assignment.
Your child’s user name is their first name, last name, 233 (annebloomfield233). Their password is lewis2014. Here are the assignments for the week…
Monday--M.1
Tuesday--C.3
Wednesday--A.5
Thursday--(not on IXL) optional math riddle game--your child will bring home a math riddle to be played on a hundreds chart (which I will provide).
In addition to math students are expected to read 20 minutes per night (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday). For now students may pick their own reading material to read for homework but shortly (possibly this week) Mrs. Jackson, our reading teacher will be assigning reading for each student.
Our days are long at Oasis Academy and students get hungry. We have 2 snack times built into our day. Students can take out a snack at our 9:35 am recess. They may also munch on a snack during our silent reading time at 3:00 pm. Please be sure to pack 2 snacks for your child. It's better for them to have an option not to snack then to be hungry.
This blog entry has gotten rather lengthy--so much to say. I am looking forward to another wonderful week!!
Sincerely,
Anne Bloomfield
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