Guest Readers

We had some guest readers one morning last week.  Some of the 3rd grade students came in and read some poetry to us.  We had a great time listening to them read and many of us are excited to be good readers like they are!

New Years Face

Right after our Holiday break we came back and made our face with a party hat and blower to celebrate the new year.  We discussed what we did over our breaks and what it means for it to be a new year!

Word Games

We have been busy reviewing our first 46 word wall words this past week.  We took some time to play partner games like "I am thinking of a word with"...   They had a lot of fun guessing each others words!

Newsletter Information

Mrs. Hendershot’s Class

Friday, January 10, 2014

Dates:

   January 22^nd -Early Dismissal

   February 5^th  - Early Dismissal

   February 17^th – Snow Make Up Day!  We have School!

   February 19^th 0 Early Dismissal

Daily 5:

We have been very busy in our reading groups reading new, harder books.  Many of the boys and girls now have a new reading level.  They are so proud of their accomplishments.  We have also been working very hard on our Word Wall Words.  They are even working on spelling them correctly.  We have also spent some of our time working on the story elements.  These would be the characters, setting, problem, and solution.  Now while reading with your child please ask these questions as they are very important to their comprehension.

Math:

In math we have been busy working on the 3 dimensional shapes and fractions.  The shapes we learned are cone, cylinder, sphere, and cube.  They found these all over and talked about objects that are these shapes.  This coming week we will be working on halves and fourths.  Our main focus will be on equal parts!  Ask your child about the new shapes as we are really working on their names!

Health:

We previously have worked very hard on learning the character traits.  We discussed the last 3 before Christmas break.  Those were citizenship, fairness, and caring.  Now since we have been back we are working on the 5 senses.  We have done a variety of activities to help us understand the senses that we have.  Ask your child to tell you about all 5 of them!

Writing:

Helpful Hints:

·      Have your child sequence the numbers to 30. 

·      Work on counting to 100.

·      Practice our Kindergarten Word Wall Words.

·      Have your child start writing sentences.

Chalk Train

We were unable to do all our work with the Polar Express this year but we did do one fun activity that deals with chalk and making it look like all the snow and smoke that goes along with the Polar Express.  We had a great time doing this activity!  Hope you enjoyed it when it came home!

Opening Presents

Here are a few photos of the students opening up the books that I gave them!  It was fun and great to hear how excited they were about the books!

Party!!

On Friday after our late start we were able to come to school and eat our party good right away!  It was a lot of fun and we enjoyed all the great treats that we received!  Thanks to all of those who were on the party committee!

Enjoy the photos!