sight word practice with potato head!!!!

math

+1 -1, decade numbers and teen numbers, oh my!!

math

---plus one (+1) minus one (-1)---

We are focusing on:

Adding and subtracting within 10

Representing addition and subtraction

with objects, fingers, words, equations, etc

Understanding the previous number or the next number goes in order

"ms. Bernie, don't rock the floaty!!!!"

One on ONe zooms!

Sight Words Writing Sharing

One on ONe zooms!

did you get your flat

ms bell & flat ms bernie????

sharing our stories...

group zooms!

our class rocks! we have read 150 books!!

congratulations!

Keep up the good work!

You can read LOTS of books on the Epic app on your iPad or here

Classroom Code: dyr6524

1 on 1 zooms

Are in full swing!

It is so great to see each of you and have some time together!

I enjoyed so much doing math, reading, and writing with you.

It is nice to catch up and share what we have been up to.

Mondays with Michelle Obama,

on YouTube and Facebook,

Mondays @ 12 Noon

Here is the link to Michelle Obama's first read aloud "The Gruffalo"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyhgubvRYF4

Visit: student.freckle.com

Enter Class Code: 4HQSRP

Every student’s password is the class code

Enter Student Username

Your student’s username is their first and last name

Tomorrow is another big distribution day!

Meals will be at WSD, O'Brien Center, Family Center on Elm Street from 9-10am.

Material distribution (IPADS!!!!!!) will be from 9-11am at the three sites.

Veggie VanGo will be at WSD from 9-10am.

our zoom classes!

The other day we had 15 students join the class for sight word practice!

Way to go EVERYONE! Way to go FAMILIES!

what have you been up to?

Aiden has been working hard on writing (such neat printing!) and math!

Aiden has been drawing and doing a lot of art...it his FAVORITE!

schedule

EVERY WEEK 1 on 1 Zoom with student on Mondays OR Wednesdays

Check in; we will talk, read, write and do math together.

EVERY TUESDAY & THURSDAY @ 10:30 "Teaching" Zoom with whole class

Instruction; we will talk, do Readers Workshop, Writers Workshop, Fundations and Math.

MOST FRIDAYS @ 11:00 Morning Meeting Zoom with whole class.

This is flexible and may not happen EVERY week.

Meeting; we will continue our classroom community by talking with friends, greeting each other, playing a game, reading a book, and doing some academics connected to our school day.

fundations zoom class

We reviewed all the names and sounds of the letters. We continued right from where we left off and worked on tapping out words, building words, and then writing them!

WE ARE WRITERS!!!

what have you been up to?

Amor has been working hard on his school work! He loves all the activity sheets.

Amor has been writing A LOT!

WAY TO GO AMOR!

continued learning

Beginning April 12th

all teachers will be holding lessons at least twice a week

on Zoom.

***We will be having consistent Zoom meetings on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10:30, which will focus on Reading, Writing/Phonics and Math.

***I also hope to do a Morning Meeting Zoom each week, but it may not be consistent.

Here is a link to a video, which explains how to

get Zoom and join a meeting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdAMYW-yELQ&feature=emb_err_watch_on_yt

what have you been up to?

Ethan has been doing A LOT of read! He then finds sight words in the text and practices writing them. What great learning! He has also been doing many art projects each day. Ethan decorated eggs made out of salt dough with many different designs. How fun!

Breaking up the day with art projects helps your child focus all learning.

WAY TO GO ETHAN!

Aiden has been going on walks in the woods by his house. He likes to walk by the river and pick up sticks.

Exploring outside is a great way to incorporate science into your child's at home learning.

WAY TO GO AIDEN!

mo willems teaches kids to draw!

one of our favorite authors is doing doodle sessions on youtube!

"Lunch Doodles" is Willems' show in which he doodles DAILY with your kids!

here is the link:

https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEB&search_query=mo+willems+lunch+doodles

Success!!!!!

We had a great first meeting on Zoom! It was fun to see our friends and do some learning together!

First we took attendance by reading our friends name tags from our tables.

Next we were just going to read 1 book, but everyone wanted more so we read 3 Old Favorites; The Three Billy Goats Gruff, From Head to Toe and We Are In A Book!.

Then, we looked for and spelled some sight words that were in the books. We identified different parts of the book; cover, back, spine, title page, etc.

Finally, we took some time to share what we have been up to; practicing writing letters and numbers, writing books with moms and sisters, reading whole books by ourselves, doing some of the work from the school bags and of course making art.

We said goodbye with a fist bump to the screen.

I am looking forward to doing another Zoom meeting again soon. I would also be interested in starting more one on one Zoom meetings too. So be on the lookout for more Zoom invites!

what have you been up to?

Baylinh and his sister have been making sure to get outside. By running around outside Baylinh is more ready to focus on his school work.

WAY TO GO BAYLINH!

At Home learning websites:

Movement breaks are a great way to get the wiggles out, have fun and be ready to focus on school work.

(You can also scroll down to March 24th for other movement break options)

how to help your child do

school work at home

Do one thing at a time

Break things down into smaller more manageable chunks. For example fold a worksheet in half and then once done, take a short break.

Have a specific spot to do school work

Maybe set goals by choosing what needs to get done in the first half of the day, then again for the second half, etc

Have a routine of when it is time to wake up work, play, eat, go to bed etc

Give many short breaks, movement breaks NOT Ipad/video game breaks. There are some great movement videos online by Koo Koo Kangaroo and Jack Hartmann , and specifically Baby Shark. These were the class's favorites.

pick up learning packets, meals and vegetables

Tomorrow March 20th

9-10 Vegetables

9-11 Meals and Learning Packets

jump rope for heart

There were lots of laughs and smiles as we went round to all the movement stations. It was a fun zig zag in our normal schedule.

MATH

This week we have been focusing on the Core Math Idea of making all the combinations to make 5. We are all amazing mathematicians! We have had very productive learning in math. Everyone is sharing their math thinking with their partner and the class. We are listening to understand and are able to revoice BIG ideas. We came up with a math GENERALIZATION.

"2 numbers put together SOMETIMES makes a bigger number"

and

"we know because 0 is none".

heart ambassadors!

You show HEART! Congratulations! You do your best!

We filled our heart jar!

We voted and chose, by majority, to have a toy day. We had some extra explore time to play with our toys and our friends. It was a happy Toy Day!

shaving cream!

It is always fun to spread shaving cream all over our tables. And not only is it fun, the soap deep cleans our tables for us!

100th day of school!

We celebrated with a variety of activities, crafts and movements...

We made 100th day necklaces using 100 Fruit Loops!

We also made crowns!

with 100 dots

heart ambassadors!

Jevaeh shows heart by being Engaged. Jevaeh does her best and has been working hard on learning the letters and and numbers.

Kaleesie shows heart by being Honest. Kaleesie is a kind and caring person. She is an amazing role model to everyone in her class.

Let it snow! (finally)

We made snowmen to hang in our windows. Trace, cut, write, draw, glue. Many directions to follow!

it's flu season!

There have been many confirmed cases of the flu

at school.

Please keep your child home if he/she has any of these symptoms

STAY HEALTHY!!!!

we had a special visitor!

Congressman peter welch

read us one of our old favorites "There's a Bird On My Head?" by Mo Willems

fundations

with a partner we made a letter poster.

We wrote and illustrated words that begin with the sound of our letter

Lots of learning...reading old favorites, making words, counting, writing across pages, number writing, ordering numbers, studying story elements, comparing quantities!!!! oh my!

We are also taking time to practice being kind.

we are kind!

We are reading stories about friendship and being kind. For the next couple of weeks we will read and then have a discussion about the book including talking about how we can show kindness and friendship to others. The qualities of kindness in the books we are reading include having patience, encouraging each other, respecting personal space, including others, helping others, using kind words, showing compassion and celebrating our differences.

re introducing playdough!

We earned back our playdough center at Explore. We discussed what it looks like and sounds like to play with and clean up from playdough. We were very excited and met all the expectations of being responsible while using playdough.

Readers' workshop

We are focusing on adding to our favorites book bin. These are books that we read over and over and over. By doing this we are able to read the words, read the pictures and/or retell the story. As we read our favorites we practice the various skills of readers...

We have begun studying different components of a book. We are leaning about characters, setting, and sequence. We answer questions, that you too can ask as you read at home: Who are the characters in the story? Who is the main character? Who is the story mostly about? What is the setting of the book? Where does the story take place? What happens in the beginning, middle and the end? What is the problem? How is the problem solved?

happy to be together again!

drawing day!

We filled up our heart jar. To celebrate we decided to have a day full of drawing.

We created GOOGLEY EYE pictures

explore

We were excited to be back together again & playing!

fundations

We created a directed drawing!

We have been working on the skill of following directions in preparation for our PBL (Project Based Learning) later in the school year.

We learned about the letter P this week. We made a long list of words that begin with P.

DEAR Families:

Thank you for taking the time to attend our family-teacher conference. I appreciate your time and effort. We are working together towards the same goal--a positive and rich first year of elementary school for your child.

If you have any further questions...please feel free to contact me.

Email is best: cbell@wsdvt.org

heart ambassadors

Each month a couple of us are awarded the title of Heart Ambassador. These students are ones who have exemplified our school's expectations of being Honest, Engaged, Appropriate, Responsible and Timely.

This month...

Amor Chavez for being excited to learn. He follows directions with the class and is participating more and more each day!

Nirvan Suwal for sharing his ideas in class discussions. He enhances our conversations with his knowledge!

shout out award!!!!

Our very own Ms. Bernie won an award because she is DEDICATED, CARING, and GOES ABOVE and BEYOND!

First snowy recess!

family morning meeting!

Thank you to everyone who joined us at our Morning Meeting. It was fun to share how we begin each day with you.

readers workshop

We began reading groups!

We start each group with word work. Currently we are practicing putting our names together as well as our friends' names. As we progress, our names are cut up into more and more letter pieces. We are then challenged to put our names together in correct order from left to right.

We all have at least 2 leveled reading books in our book boxes that we can read (along with familiar storybooks). The leveled readers have a repetitive and predictable pattern typically with a change on the last page, and example would be "I see a dog. I see a cat. I see at mouse. I love animals."

We are practicing using the pictures to help us read the words. We know the pictures match the words. As we read more and more our one to one correspondence (pointing to each word once as we read it) is getting stronger.