Character Counts Gym Night

Character Counts Gym Night took place last Friday. It was a huge success! We had 121 students in attendance and many helpful parent volunteers. We were able to raise close to $800 to use throughout the year for the Character Counts program. These funds will be put towards books, assemblies, and projects. Here are some pictures from the evening.

First Grade
Reading and Language Arts - This week we worked on rhyming with nonsense words. We also worked with onset fluency, blending and identifying final and medial sounds.

Math - We continued to work with subtraction concepts this week. Please practice addition and subtraction concepts with your children at home.

Second Grade
Reading and Language Arts - This week we worked on the bonus letters: ff, ll, and ss. We also worked with glued sounds such as: all, ang, ank, ing, ink, ong, onk, ung, unk, am, and an. The children worked very hard this week and I am very proud of them. Next week I will be introducing vowel teams to the children.

Math - This week we took our chapter test on place value to 100. We also started a new chapter on number patterns and concepts.

Don't forget to wear green on Fridays for Character Counts!

Week of September 29th - October 3rd

First Grade

Reading: We worked on segmenting words, adding phonemes, deleting phonemes and reading with expression. The children also worked hard on their sight words. Keep reading at home!

Math: This week we spent a lot of time working with number stories. The children used counters and pictures to explore the meaning of addition. We have also been working on different ways to use subtraction.

Second Grade

Reading: We were busy this week in Reading! We worked on closed syllables, diagraphs, blends, sight words, and reading with expression. The children did a great job this week.

Math: We are currently working on place value. We are also working on reading and writing numbers up to 100 and showing numbers in different ways.

Don't forget to wear green on Fridays this month for Character Counts!

RTI Begins

Our first two days of the new RTI program went very well! I will be working in Mrs. Micetich's, 1st grade classroom and Mrs. Beseth's, 2nd grade classroom. I am so happy that I can work with so many new students this year. I will be focusing mainly on the Wilson Fundations Reading program. The Wilson Fundations program is a phonological/phonemic awareness, phonics and spelling program for the general education classroom.

Week of September 15th - 19th

This week in Math we continued to work with addition strategies. We also started looking at subtraction strategies. The children have been doing a great job with their school work and they continue to do well with bringing their homework back daily.
This week in Reading we read books about Scarecrows and made an art project. We had another great week!

Week of September 8th - 12th

We had another great week together! In Math we focused on addition strategies. The children have done very well with their work this week. In Reading we worked on sight words, guided reading, spelling, and phonics games.
Next week in Math we will continue to work with addtion strategies. In Reading the 2nd graders worked hard on writing short stories with illustrations. They are very proud of their work and they were able to share their stories with each other. Next week we will be reading the story Julius. This is a funny story about a pig that acts like a person.

Welcome Back!

It has been a wonderful week! It was great to meet many of you at our Open House on Monday. I know this will be an exciting school year. Mark your calendars for our 1st and 2nd grade Curriculum Night on Wednesday, September 10th. I hope to see many of you there.

This week I started my 1st and 2nd grade Math groups. I will be starting my Reading and Language Arts groups on September 22nd. I am looking forward to helping your children this year.