Weekly Update

What's been going on?

Daily Five

The Daily Five is going great! This week has been exciting because we are launching the last component of “The Daily 5”!! We are learning to “Read to Someone”. This week we are learning that there are 3 ways to read to someone.

Check for understanding (one book): One partner reads while the other checks for understanding. Then they switch jobs.

I Read – You Read : One partner reads; the other partner reads the same part of the story. This helps us to build fluency.

Read Two Different Books (two books): Partners read two different books and check for understanding.

During The Daily 5, we have 3 different focus lessons and the children self-select one of the 5 components to work on after each lesson.

The 5 tasks include:

*Read to Self

*Work on Writing

*Word Work

*Listen to Reading

*Read to Someone

Daily 5 is how we schedule our language block. CAFÉ is what we study during this time. CAFÉ is an acronym for the four major components of reading. They are:

C for Comprehension
A for Accuracy
F for Fluency
E for Expanding Vocabulary

Letterland

We have been learning a lot about the letter “s”! We’ve learned about plurals; when s makes the /z/ sound; and what sound occurs when we have 2 s’s together like in the word “class”. We are working on the short and long vowel sounds /a/ and /i/.

Sight Words
I, see, like, my, the, can, am, we, will, go, to, play, he, she, and, made, is, went
Math

counting objects and one to one correspondence, horizontal graphs, 3D Shapes (cubes, sphere, cone, cylinder), Venn Diagrams, different ways to make ten

IB Attitudes

empathy, appreciation, curiosity, commitment

Updates & Reminders

- We still need volunteers for the 100^th day celebration! Please sign up if you can help!

-We are in need of large cereal boxes for our Valentine's Day Exchange. Please send in a box between now and February 11th. If you have any extra, send those in too!

-Please don’t forget to end in your report card envelopes because we’ll reuse these at the end of the year!

-Science-Go-Round: Friday, February 22, 2013; 8:30 – 2:00

If you’d like to help out, volunteer or have questions, contact Hannah Boston at 919-368-1006 or hannahboston@gmail.com

-JY Joyner Healthy Choice Marathon

*Accept the challenge to read for 20 minutes, exercise, and eat healthy each day!

5K Fun Walk/Run, Celebration & Health Fair: Sunday, March 3; 2:00

-Year Book Order Forms are due by March 26th - $16.00