Announcements 5/21/12
1.Intent to Return Forms
These bright orange forms will be coming home tomorrow. Please return them by May 29th.
2.Class Photos
Find more class photos on the Shutterfly website in our room 15 group room. The group room is called: Mrs.Yates' Class Room 15
http://mrsyatesclassroom15.shutterfly.com
3. Volunteer Appreciation Tea/Luncheon: Tuesday!
1:45-2:45 pm
This luncheon invitation is for all parents who have volunteered this year.
Your child/children are most welcome to stay and play on the playground during the luncheon. There will be yard duty coverage available.
4. 1st Grade End of the Year Event:
Ortega Park Picnic
Friday, June 1st
9am -1:30pm
5. 2nd Grade End of the Year Event:
Sundae Funday
Wednesday, June 6th
12:35-2:05pm
Contact Kathleen Peters if you can help.
khpeters@yahoo.com
6. WVEEF Fundraising Update:
Kindergarten won the grade level ice cream party, but 2nd grade was so close that they have been awarded a popsicle party too. YAY!
7. Homework Due Dates:
1st Grade Reading Log & Spelling Homework Due Dates:
*Reading Log: Reading log due Wed.
* Week 16 spelling list will be tested Wednesday.
*First Graders are doing weekly written, timed math fact tests.
2nd Grade Reading Log & Homework Due Dates:
*Homework Packet: Due Thursday
*Math fact Timed Test is on Thursday
In Class Curriculum:
1st & 2nd Grade Math:
1. Division into equal groups
2. Adding & Subtracting double & triple digits
1st & 2nd Grade Writing:
Insect Poem: Concrete Poetry
Insect Paragraph
Comprehension Questions
Ongoing Grammar: D.O.L.
DOL Assessment at the end of every other week
Memory Book Pages
1st and 2nd Grade Word Study/Spelling/Phonics
-est word family (1st Grade)
Spelling Review (2nd Grade)
Guide Words-using a dictionary (2nd)
Synonyms-Using a Thesaurus (2nd)
Verbs & Irregular Verbs (both)
1st & 2nd Grade Shared Reading Daily Poem (s):
The Whirligig Beetles; The Walking Stick; The Monarch Butterfly
With this activity, we work on metaphors, personification, choral reading, pronunciation and presentation skills, reciting, movement, syllable clapping, and rhyming patterns.
1st & 2nd Grade Reading, Social Studies, & Science:
Houghton Mifflin Reader Selections & Scholastic News
Parts of a Book Review
Dewey Decimal System Review
Fiction/Non-Fiction Review
Book Review Posters & Presentations
Caldecott & Newberry
Using a Dictionary
Rock Study (2nd only)
Ongoing Reading Skills:
Making Self to Text, Text to Text Connections, Making Inferences, Finding Beginning, Middle, & End, Comparing & Contrasting Texts, Finding Main Idea, and Retelling or Making a Summary.
Hunting for Author Tools: repetition of words or lines, rhyming, good word choice (describing words), sound or sensory words, and personification.
Take care,
Mrs. Yates