We had a busy week! We had a fun Valentine's Day Party. Thank you to all
the parents who donated items and/or came to the party to help.
Thank you, especially, to Mrs. McCulloch for planning and facilitating our
party. Everyone had a great time!
Thank you also for sending in items for our class basket for the Spring
Carnival! Keep them coming!
Changes in homework this week. Read below!
Homework this week:
Read 150 min. per week-due Monday, February 25 One (1) reading response and
summary Writing-Revise and edit narrative writing(they will bring it home on
Tuesday)-return by Thursday Reading/Writing packet Convention Sentences test
on Friday Try I-Station at home this week for at least 30 minutes-(can count
as reading minutes) Math paper daily
Sister Teresita, the nun who founded and runs the Copprome Orphanage in
Honduras, came to speak to our Service Club on Thursday. The meeting was
after the Valentine's Day party. The children had just eaten lots of sweets
and were very excited. I was a bit concerned about the behavior during our
meeting. Well, Sister Teresita quietly asked if the children had any
questions. Sage asked to tell her about Wendy, one of the children who Sage
had chosen to write a letter. Sister told a very bittersweet story about Wendy and her situation.
The children listened so attentively and were totally engaged in each and
every one of Sister's stories about the children. It was so wonderful to
watch their faces and hear them comment later about how lucky they are and
how hard it must be for the children in Honduras but how lucky they are to
have Sister to care for them.
Sister Teresita enjoyed the children at our Service Club meeting very much
and was able to come back to talk to the children in our classroom on Friday
morning! More stories were shared as the children silently listened. It
was amazing and I am so thankful that we had the opportunity to meet Sister
and hear about her life and the lives of the children. Each of our children
chose one of the children from the orphanage and they wrote a letter to
them. We typed the letter in English then translated the letter into Spanish
using an online site. They also drew pictures for the kids. Sister was so excited to have these
papers for the children that she wanted to hold them on the airplane rather
than put them in her suitcase so that they were safe. Be proud of the generosity and caring attitude of your child.
Read about the rest of our week:
Reading: We read more traditional tales and some plays this week. We
compared drama writing and narrative writing. We noticed that in dramatic
writing, the character's name and a colon are used rather than quotation
marks when showing dialogue. We also noticed that there is a list of
characters and sometimes a narrator. There are stage directions which tell
how the characters will act and/or speak and where. The directions are from
the perspective of the actor rather than the audience. Stage left means the
actor's left and the audience's right. We will be reading non-fiction
articles and books this week and looking at text structure.
Writing: We wrote letters for the children in Honduras, we wrote animal
haikus for the Haiku Contest in the library, and we worked on our published
books. We will continue to work on our published books as well as working
on some revising and editing at home for homework.
Math: Overall, we did well on our Decimals/fractions test and began working
with measurement. We made a cool chart which included the types of
measurement, tools used, as well as customary/standard and metric units.
We played a game called Race to a Gallon during which the team tries to fill
a gallon container with beans in the fewest number of turns. The team spins
a spinner to figure out the unit used. For example, the player spins quart. Then he/she spins the quart spinner to find out the number of quarts of beans to add. This
continues until the the gallon container is filled with beans. This
game is a hands-on way to work with conversion and measurements of capacity.
We will continue with measurement and problem solving this week.
MEASUREMENT VOCABULARY TEST ON FRIDAY. USE QUIA.COM TO PRACTICE. ( quia
web, user name: lisabrannan, password: dominic, then look for Measurement
Vocabulary-Mrs. Bartholomew's class.)
Science: Weathering, Erosion, Deposition-Oh My!!!! With our first grade
friends, we shook a limestone rock in water in a baby food jar.
We observed the rock before shaking then shook for a total of 9 minutes and
took notes throughout. We will continue to learn more about weathering,
erosion, and deposition. There is also a quia game ready for Rocks, Soil,
and Landforms vocabulary.
Social Studies: Performing the Voices of the Alamo play was fun to perform.
We tried the performance for the video camera but ran out of time (mostly
because I forgot to push the button to begin recording and didn't realize it
until the play was almost over. ) We will finish up the recording this week.
Maturation Video-OPT out form attached. This form was also sent home in
Thursday folders.
Be sure to volunteer at our Spring Carnival on March 1. The link for
volunteers to sign up is
https://www.ptavenue.com/volunteerr.asp?sc=FCEPTA&v=26615.
Look for Bartholomew to sign up to help with the booths. If all those slots
are filled, you can sign up to help with "Food Set Up", "Games Set Up",
"Ticket Sales" and "Clean Up Crew". Thank you!
Reminders:
Monday, February 18-No school for students
Tuesday,February 19-Reading Logs due, Measurement Vocabulary Test on Friday, go to Quia.com to study
Thursday, February 21-Writing Club 2:45-3:45
Thursday, February 28-Service Club 2:45-3:45
Friday, March 1-Spring Carnival-sign up to volunteer
Wednesday, March 6-Early Release 12:45, Kona Ice at FCE
Thursday, March 7-Writing Club 2:45-3:45
Monday, March 11-15-Spring Break
Tuesday, March 19-Friday, March 22-Writing Camp
Sincerely,
Pam Bartholomew
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