**Reminders**

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Posted by bradleys | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on December 15, 2018

**Reminders**

  • Pajama Day on Tuesday, December 18th
  • Bounce House during specials on Wednesday, December 19th (make sure you are wearing socks)
  • Christmas Party on Thursday, December 20th @ 9:00

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Dear Parents,

Our class is so excited about our Christmas party coming up this week! We have been busy making Christmas crafts to prepare for this special day. Below are some details you will need to know.

When: Thursday, December 20, 2018

Where: Room 107 (Mrs. Bradley’s Classroom)

Time: 9:00-10:00

(Party set-up begins at 8:30. Please come early and help if you are able to.)

We will have a “Penny Christmas” in our classroom.  Each student can bring 20 small gifts. For example: erasers, pencils, candy canes, ornaments….anything inexpensive that will be a special gift. We have 11 girls and 9 boys. The students will be able to open their gift bags at the party.  Please send the 20 small gifts to school, with your child, by Tuesday, December 18th. During the party, the students will open their Christmas bags full of goodies from their friends.

We will also enjoy snacks and a few crafts and games.  If you are able to be here for the Christmas party, we would love for you to come celebrate with our class. Once the party is over, you are welcome to take your child home with you.  There will be a sign-out sheet in my classroom. 

We are so blessed to have so many parents willing to help with our party. I have asked Amber Apple and Jessica Shields to help with planning/organizing the party. They are in the process of contacting parents about items or help needed for our class Christmas party. Please let me know if you have not been contacted and would like me to pass on your number to them.

Thank you for all of your help! You’re always welcome to call me if you need anything or have any questions at 903-291-2171.

Thank You,

Mrs. Bradley

December 10-14

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Posted by bradleys | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on December 11, 2018

I hope everyone enjoyed their weekend!  Last week our Elf appeared and we decided as a class to call him Mr. Elfie. He was busy this past week noticing kindness and helpfulness! One of our students jobs is the kindness recorder. At the end of the day this person records the kind/helpful information on a sticky note to add to our kindness tree.

This week we will be learning:

  • I Love You Ritual song: :Snuggle Up
  • Penmanship: review letters previously learned, review of numbers 1-20
  • Sight Words: review sight words previously learned

Reading:

  • books: Moosletoe, Click Clack Moo Christmas, Santa, Santa, What Do You See?, An Elf for Christmas, The Gingerbread Man Loose At Christmas,
  • Retell Anchor Chart
  • make inferences based on cover, title, illustrations and plot
  • Make a Beginning, Middle, End Foldable
  • Group work: illustrate characters, setting, problem, and solution.
  • sequencing and predicting – students will help complete a sequencing anchor chart using notecards
  • Poems: Peppermint Stick
  • Find sight words, letters, words, & sentences in poems
  • sight words we have learned so far: (I, can, the, on, am, like, see, me, we, go, at, little, in, is, my, put, you, look, do, get, he, she, it, for, and)
  • phonics: erase a rhyme, deleting final sounds, diagraph /sh/, /th/
  • Graph: Would you rather be an elf or a reindeer?

Math:

  • compare sets of objects up to 20 in each set using comparative language and use comparative language to describe two numbers up to 20 presented as written numerals.
  • Ways I Can Do Math Anchor Chart
  • number talks –Number Strings PowerPoint, “What do you see? How do you see it? What do you notice about the 3 different pictures?” Ways to Make Ten: use post-its 
  • Play pass the dot card game
  • Counting Jar, counting backwards to double check amount in jar
  • Number Line Game: Partners each create their number line. They take turns removing a card while their partners eyes are closed. The partner has to figure out which number is missing.
  • Measurement Towers Use 10 – students will compare if the cube tower is longer/taller, or shorter/smaller than items
  • Comparing Numbers Achor Chart – More, Fewer, Same
  • Jingle Bell Shapes using pipe cleaners and bells. Count sides and name shape.
  • MIMIO: Comparing and Ordering Whole Numbers

Math Centers:

  • Create individual math problems using gingerbread men stickers
  • Christmas Spin and Graph
  • Christmas Ornament Number Order Headband
  • Hot Chocolate Addition
  • Comparing Numbers Card Game

Writing

  • Students will finish the book they are currently working on, review parts of a story, using capitalization and punctuation, and using spaces in between words
  • We will begin Star Student/Daily News: we will pick a few students each day and have them help them write a sentence they would like to share about themselves. We will focus on capitalization, spacing, punctuation and sentence structure.
  • review drawing a 3 star picture
  • journals – use sight words (color words and other sight words I, see, we, go, on, the, go, am, like, can, me, at, little, in, is, my, put, look, you, do, get, he, she, it, for, and)
  • Labeling a Tree – directed student drawing
  • writing about personal experiences (focus on starting sentences with a capital letter, spacing between words, punctuation), reference our heart maps to get ideas of what to write about
  • continue adding to our personal word wall in our writing folders and Use sentence frames to help us write
  • lesson on writing words (say it slow, listen for sounds, write sounds you hear)
  • Christmas Sticker Story
  • Labeling an Elf-focus on adding details to their pictures also.

Social Studies/Science:

  • sharing family pictures and pages from our mascot and birthday journals
  • Finish activities on Needs and Wants
  • Continue lesson on Solids, Liquids, and Gases – Making Snowman Glue Ornament (from liquid to solid)
  • online Santa chat
  • candy sink or float, graph prediction and result
  • continue creating Christmas Bread ornaments
  • Fun Friday – Make Reindeer Dust

Feeling Buddies:

  • Feeling Buddies Lesson on Helping My Buddies
  • To practice offering empathy to our Feeling Buddy and, in turn, learn self-regulatory self-talk
  • Review 5 Steps of Self Regulation
  • Practice language to use when talking to Angry and Scared buddies
  • Read Helping My Feeling Buddies book
  • Make Class Book – I Help Keep My School Family Safe, reproducible 4.3A
  • Each child will name one thing she does to keep it safe.

Hope you all have a great week!!

Pictures

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Posted by bradleys | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on December 10, 2018

Pictures

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Posted by bradleys | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on December 3, 2018

The Gingerbread Man came to visit!!

We enjoyed swaying to the Christmas music during our Favorite Christmas Songs Graphing Activity

We worked hard this week to write our Santa letters.

Students worked in groups of 5 to draw a life size gingerbread kid and illustrate the characters, setting, problem and solution from the Gingerbread book we read

December 3-7

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Posted by bradleys | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on December 3, 2018

December 3-7

I am so excited for the kids to walk into class tomorrow to find our Christmas tree up and to meet our Elf who will stop by each day to catch kind and helpful acts. We will decide on a name for our Elf tomorrow by taking a class vote. Over the next few weeks we will create ornaments to decorate our tree.

It sure was nice to see everyone back at school last week. We did so manny fun activities. Our class really enjoyed making a graph of favorite Christmas songs. We also loved the surprise visit from the Gingerbread Man thanks to Longview’s World of Wonder. After his visit we were able to use the cookies he brought us to make a graph in math.

This week we will be learning:

  • I Love You Ritual song: Your Fingers Are So Sleepy
  • Penmanship: Letters: Uu, Ss, Zz review of numbers 1-20
  • Sight Words: it, for, and

Reading:

  • books: The Gingerbread Man Loose At Christmas, There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A beel, Gingerbread Friends
  • make inferences based on cover, title, illustrations and plot
  • Make a Beginning, Middle, End Foldable
  • Group work: illustrate characters, setting, problem, and solution.
  • sequencing and predicting – students will help complete a sequencing anchor chart using notecards
  • Poems: 5 Little Gingerbread Men, Peppermint Stick
  • Find sight words, letters, words, & sentences in poems
  • sight words we have learned so far: (I, can, the, on, am, like, see, me, we, go, at, little, in, is, my, put, you, look, do, get, he, she, it, for, and)
  • phonics: erase a rhyme, deleting final sounds, diagraph /sh/

Math:

  • compare sets of objects up to 20 in each set using comparative language and use comparative language to describe two numbers up to 20 presented as written numerals.
  • Brainpop Jr. Comparing Numbers,  Comparing Numbers, Comparing Sets of Numbers, and Ways I Can Do Math Anchor Chart
  • number talks –Number Strings PowerPoint, “What do you see? How do you see it? What do you notice about the 3 different pictures?” and dot cards with the number 7, students will draw the number 7 in different ways in their journal
  • Play pass the dot card game
  • Counting Jar, counting backwards to double check amount in jar
  • Number Line Game: Partners each create their number line. They take turns removing a card while their partners eyes are closed. The partner has to figure out which number is missing.
  • Measurement Towers Use 10 – students will compare if the cube tower is longer/taller, or shorter/smaller than items
  • Comparing Numbers Achor Chart – More, Fewer, Same

Math Centers:

  • Finish Math Inventory Bags Investigations
  • Create individual math problems using gingerbread men stickers
  • Christmas Spin and Graph
  • Christmas Tree Number Order Craft
  • Hot Chocolate Addition
  • Comparing Numbers Card Game

Writing

  • Students will continue work with a partner to create a book, review parts of a story
  • review using capitalization and punctuation
  • review using spaces in between words
  • review drawing a 3 star picture
  • journals – use sight words (color words and other sight words I, see, we, go, on, the, go, am, like, can, me, at, little, in, is, my, put, look, you, do, get, he, she, it, for, and)
  • Labeling a Reminder – directed student drawing
  • writing about personal experiences (focus on starting sentences with a capital letter, spacing between words, punctuation), reference our heart maps to get ideas of what to write about
  • continue adding to our personal word wall in our writing folders and Use sentence frames to help us write
  • lesson on writing words (say it slow, listen for sounds, write sounds you hear)
  • How To Decorate a Christmas Tree class chart

Social Studies/Science:

  • sharing family pictures and pages from our mascot and birthday journals
  • Continue Lesson on Needs and Wants
  • Continue lesson on Solids, Liquids, and Gases – Make Snowman Glue Ornament (from liquid to solid)
  • brainstorm list of questions to ask Santa, submit questions in preparation of online Santa chat next week
  • candy sink or float, graph prediction and result
  • create Christmas Bread ornaments
  • Fun Friday – Make gingerbread playdough
  • Feeling Buddies: continue lesson on Making Friends with my buddies, students learn how to accept our emotional states instead of pushing them away, discuss common classroom situations/problems, list hurtful words they might say when anger gets ahold of them. Then write helpful words they might say when they calm down and are able to engage the thinking part of their brains.

Hope you all have a great week!!

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