April 1-5

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Posted by bradleys | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on March 31, 2019

Hope everyone has had a great weekend! Please remember to send in your stamped and addressed envelopes so your child can mail an invitation to their Grandparents for our upcoming Grandparents Day performance. Also remember to send in the Grandparents Day T-shirt size form and $10.

We are going to have a fun filled week! Tomorrow students will see how well their leprechaun traps worked. They left them on their tables over the weekend in hopes of catching a leprechaun or at least some gold he may have dropped.We will also be starting our study on the lifecycle of a butterfly by observing real caterpillars each day.

What we will be learning the week of April 1-5:

  • I Love You Ritual song: This Little Finger
  • Sight Word Review: and, am, are, do, can, Introduce 1st grade words: about, how
  • Letters: Review letters:Vv, Ww
  • Numbers: Review numbers 0-20 and continue practicing counting to 100 by 1s and 10s

Morning Activities

  • Emergent Readers: Three Little Pigs and Where Are We?
  • Write about the steps you took to build your Leprechaun trap
  • Journal Writing (yes), write yes 3 times, use yes in a sentence, rainbow write yet, build the word yes
  • Sight Word Concentration
  • Finish Last Name Graphing, how many letters in your last name
  • What Is Your Favorite Weather Graph
  • Sight Word Journal Dance, students dance to music, when music stops students write down sight word called out
  • Continue working on beginning, middle, and end writing

Morning Message:

  • Daily Star Student – share something with class and write a sentence about what was said. Find letters, digraphs, blends in sentence. Fix mistakes (capital, spacing, punctuation)
    • stretching sounds to write words, beginning blend sounds, counting words in a sentence, rhyming words

Reading:

  • Identify story elements of a fairytale, discuss main idea of fairytale  and connect it to their own personal experience. Compare/contrast fairy tale versions of the same story and retell the fairy tales
  • books: The Three Little Pigs (different versions)
  • Complete Story Elements of The Three Little Pigs
  • Venn Diagram: The Three LIttle Pigs and The True Story of the Three Pigs
  • Who Do You Believe? (The wolf or the pigs) Graph
  • Retell the story of The Three Little Pigs using puppets 
  • Have students complete sequencing page for the Three Little Pigs
  • Lesson on adding s and es to words, Play Mimeo Plural Nouns Game
  • Poems: Spring is Here, I’m an Easter Bunny, The Funny Man
  • Phoneme Segmenting and Blending – Students will name the picture and segment the word into phonemes while slowly sliding the parts together

Math:

  • Identify U.S. Coins by name, including pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters
  • Collect, sort, and organize data into two or three categories
    • create a domino sum graph
  • PowerPoint: What Does Not Belong? Students will share which item does not belong and justify why.
  • I have, I Wish I Had, dot card game (teen numbers)
  • students will work in small groups. Each group has to come up with all of the ways to make the number on their chart paper. (teen numbers)
  • QR Code Math Game
  • Clear the Deck Game -Review addition and subtraction with this game. Children work in pairs and split one game board. Each child starts with 10 cubes on their ten frame. They roll a +/- 1,2, or 3 dice to determine how many cubes to add or subtract from their side. The first to “clear their deck” wins!
  • Number Talk: Using Rekenreks, How many beads do you see? How do you see them?  subitize, counting strategies, finger fluency, different ways to show a number, ways to come up with that number.
  • Number Talk: Dot Cards, What do you see? How do you see it?
  • Youtube: Subitizing Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwUtg6O6H3k

Math Centers:

  • Sort and Graph Jelly Beans (math by self)
  • ABCYA.com – Money
  • Sorting Money, Tic Tac Teen (horseshoe) and Problem Solving
  • Coin Rubbings and counting by 10’s headbands (Journals)
  • Flower Sum Dominos (math with a partner)

Writing

  • Create a Large Story Map of The Three Little Pigs students can take turns walking down the path and retelling the story
  • Finish Class Rhyming Book – There’s A Wocket In My Pocket
  • journal writing using sight words and new spring vocabulary
  • Continue setting and using writing goals
  • Use Story Dice to roll different settings, character, and events. Continue Using story map to write beginning, middle, end story.

Social Studies/Science:

  • Grow a bean in a baggie experiment
  • Begin Lifecycle of A Butterfly
  • FUN FRIDAY: Walking Water

Feeling Buddies: Feeling Buddies: Seeing with Loving Eyes

  • Sing #17 It’s Okay
  • When our feelings get ahold of us, sometimes we act in hurtful ways. That is why we practice getting ahold of our feelings.. Once we get ahold of our feelings, we can turn our thinking brains on, see things differently, and learn new ways of solving problems
  • Students will make heart shaped glasses, they will play “using my loving eyes” to see situations differently

Hope you all have a great week!!

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Posted by bradleys | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on March 31, 2019

March 25-29

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Posted by bradleys | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on March 25, 2019

What we will be learning the week of March 25-29:

  • I Love You Ritual song: Walk and Stop
  • Sight Words: had, yes
  • Letters: Review letters: Tt, Uu
  • Numbers: Review numbers 0-20 and continue practicing counting to 100 by 1s and 10s

Morning Activities

  • Emergent Reader for sight word, had
  • Sight Word Concentration
  • Journal Writing (yes), write yes 3 times, use yes in a sentence, rainbow write yet, build the word yes
  • Sight Word Concentration
  • Last Name Graphing, how many letters in your last name
  • Sight Word Journal Dance, students dance to music, when music stops students write down sight word called out
  • Continue working on beginning, middle, and end writing

Morning Message:

  • Daily Star Student – share something with class and write a sentence about what was said. Find letters, digraphs, blends in sentence. Fix mistakes (capital, spacing, punctuation)
    • stretching sounds to write words, beginning blend sounds, counting words in a sentence, rhyming words

Reading:

  • books: Little Red Riding Hood (different versions), Caps For Sale
  • Soft/Hard C anchor chart
  • Lesson on adding s and es to words, Play Mimeo Plural Nouns Game
  • Poems: Leprechaun, I’m an Easter Bunny, The Funny Man
  • Phoneme Segmenting and Blending – Students will name the picture and segment the word into phonemes while slowly sliding the parts together

Math:

  • Identify U.S. Coins by name, including pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters
  • Collect, sort, and organize data into two or three categories
  • PowerPoint: What Does Not Belong? Students will share which item does not belong and justify why.
  • Money Anchor Chart
  • I have, I Wish I Had, dot card game
  • BrainPop Jr. : Pictographs, Tally Charts, Bar Graphs
  • How To Make  A Graph Anchor
  • Caps For Sale –  students will  graph hats by color.
  • Clear the Deck Game -Review addition and subtraction with this game. Children work in pairs and split one game board. Each child starts with 10 cubes on their ten frame. They roll a +/- 1,2, or 3 dice to determine how many cubes to add or subtract from their side. The first to “clear their deck” wins!
  • Continue learning about coins, review using magnetic coins and money songs
  • students will work in small groups. Each group has to come up with all of the ways to make the number on their chart paper.
  • Number Talk: Using Rekenreks, How many beads do you see? How do you see them?  subitize, counting strategies, finger fluency, different ways to show a number, ways to come up with that number.
  • Number Talk: Dot Cards, What do you see? How do you see it?

Math Centers:

  • Sort and Graph Lucky Charms cereal  (math by self)
  • ABCYA.com – Fuzz Bugs Graphing (technology)
  • Sorting Money, Coin Rubbings, Tic Tac Teen (horseshoe)
  • Ten Frame Matchup (journals)
  • Flower Sum Dominos (math with a partner)

Writing

  • Finish Interactive Chart, Oh The Places You’ll Go! (I want to be a…)
  • Finish Class Rhyming Book – There’s A Wocket In My Pocket
  • journal writing using sight words and new spring vocabulary
  • Continue setting and using writing goals
  • Use Story Dice to roll different settings, character, and events. Continue Using story map to write beginning, middle, end story.

Social Studies/Science:

  • Grow a bean in a baggie experiment
  • Explore Oobleck, (float or sink chart)
  • FUN FRIDAY: build Leprechaun Traps

Feeling Buddies: Feeling Buddies: I Have Choices

  • To learn to listen to the signals and whisper messages of our feelings so we can be helpful to each other and ourselves.
  • Sing #12  I Have A Choice
  • practice being helpful to our friends when we see their feeling signals on their fave, hear it in their voices, or see it in their bodies.
  • Create Class Book, I Can Be Helpful, students will illustrate and write about how they would choose to be helpful

In Conscious Discipline, children learn how to wish each other well. Wishing well happens when we take a deep breath, put our hands over our heart and send out loving energy.

Hope you all have a great week!!

March 18-22 Important Reminders

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Posted by bradleys | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on March 17, 2019

  • Monday, March 18th – (no school) is a student holiday. I hope you have enjoyed your spring break!
  • Tuesday, March 19th – we will be having our spring student led parent conferences. This is a time that your child, you, and myself will get to spend 15-20 minutes showing off their amazing work and setting a few goals with you.

Please sign up for a time to come hear your child talk about his/her progress! Click the link to sign up:

Mrs. Bradley’s Class Spring Student Led Parent Conferences Sign Up

  • Friday, March 22nd – Our class will be leading the CHAMPS assembly over PERSEVERANCE. We will be practicing in class but need your help practicing speaking at home each night this week.

We would LOVE for you all to be there. We are looking forward to an AWESOME performance! The assembly will be from 8:00-8:30 on Friday, March 22nd in the cafeteria.

Thank You,
Mrs. Bradley

 

Mrs. Bradley’s Class Spring Student Led Parent Conferences on March 19th

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Posted by bradleys | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on March 7, 2019

On March 19th we will be having our spring student led parent conferences. This is a time that your child, you, and myself will get to spend 15-20 minutes showing off their amazing work and setting a few goals with you.

Please sign up here for a time to come hear your child talk about his/her progress!

click the link below to sign up:

Mrs. Bradley’s Class Spring Student Led Parent Conferences Sign Up

Pictures

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Posted by bradleys | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on March 3, 2019

We love our new lego wall! Students are doing a great job building sight words that they find in our weekly poems.

We loved learning more about nonfiction text! Students enjoyed going on a nonfiction text scavenger hunt to find features in a nonfiction book.

So proud of all of our CHAMPS!!

March 4-8

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Posted by bradleys | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on March 3, 2019

**Important Information**

We are celebrating Dr. Seuss this week. He is a beloved children’s author and two of his books that we will read next week are, Fox in Socks and There’s A Wocket In My Pocket. We are inviting children to wear:

  • Tuesday, March 5th – Wear Crazy Socks with your school shoes
  • Wednesday, March 6th – Wear clothing that has pockets
  • I will have a substitute March 5-7, I will leave instructions for her to check planners each day for any notes or lunch money.
  • Spring Break is March 11-15. There is also a student holiday on March 18th.
  • I sent home information about our upcoming Champs Assembly on March 22nd. Please have your child practice their line and our group song over the next couple of weeks to prepare. We would love for you attend our Champs Assembly on March 22nd. It will start at 8:00 and end around 8:30.

This week we will be learning:

What we will be learning March 4-8:

  • I Love You Ritual song: Oh Mr. Sun
  • Sight Words: to, not, home

Morning Activities

  • Journal Writing (home), Draw a picture of your home and write a sentence about it.
  • Journal Writing (not) Draw two animals, one little and one big, write sentence beside each animal. I am not little. I am little.
  • Say it, spell it, write it sight words
  • Last Name Graphing, how many letters in your last name
  • Sight Word Journal Dance, students dance to music, when music stops students write down sight word called out
  • Continue working on beginning, middle, and end writing
  • create a Dr. Seuss creature like the ones seen in the book, There is a Wocket In my Pocket

Morning Message:

  • Dr. Seuss word families – op, ed, at, am
  • stretching sounds to write words, counting backwards, complete twenty frames using teen numbers
  • beginning blend sounds, counting words in a sentence, use number bonds to create a number sentence
  • match pictures to words, complete the sentence using the word that sounds the best, adding one more
  • rhyming words
  • sight word bingo
  • Self control song

Reading:

  • books: Green Eggs and Ham, Fox in Socks, There is A Wocket in My Pocket, And to Think That I saw it on Mulberry Street
  • Graphs: Are you Wearing Silly Socks Today? How Many Pockets Do You Have?
  • Prediction: Will you like green eggs and ham?
  • Long U Song and Sounds of Y Song
  • Lesson on adding s and es to words, Play Mimeo Plural Nouns Game
  • Poems: I Have, EEKK (Elbow to Elbow, Knee to Knee), focus on (-ow words for long o and -ee/-ea for long e words)
  • Phoneme Segmenting and Blending – Students will name the picture and segment the word into phonemes while slowly sliding the parts together

 

Math:

  • solve word problems using objects and drawings to find sums up to 10
  • model the action of joining to represent addition
  • explain the strategies used to solve problems involving adding within 10 using words, pictures, and number sentences
  • Dr. Seuss Math Mimeo
  • I have, I Wish I Had, dot card game
  • Do You Like Green Eggs and Ham Graph
  • Clear the Deck Game -Review addition and subtraction with this game. Children work in pairs and split one game board. Each child starts with 10 cubes on their ten frame. They roll a +/- 1,2, or 3 dice to determine how many cubes to add or subtract from their side. The first to “clear their deck” wins!
  • Continue learning about coins, review using magnetic coins and money songs
  • students will work in small groups. Each group has to come up with all of the ways to make the number on their chart paper.
  • Finish using the Pete the Cat Work Mat to model subtraction situations using buttons. write subtraction equations
  • Number Talk: Using Rekenreks, How many beads do you see? How do you see them?  subitize, counting strategies, finger fluency, different ways to show a number, ways to come up with that number.
  • Number Talk: Dot Cards, What do you see? How do you see it?

Math Centers:

  • Sort and Graph Colored Goldfish crackers and Subtraction Smash (math by self)
  • Mimio Addition, Dice Addition (technology)
  • Tic Tac Teen (horseshoe)
  • Ten Frame Matchup (journals)
  • Race to Twenty Number Line and Piggy Bank Addition: Have students pick some items from around the room (pencils, crayons, markers, books, etc…) to put price tags on. Allow the students to price items (1 cents, 10 cents etc…). Students will then pick 2 items to buy and add up their total using the piggy bank addition sheet. (math with a partner)

Writing

  • Class Interactive Chart, Oh The Places You’ll Go! (I want to be a…)
  • Create Class Rhyming Book – There’s A Wocket In My Pocket
  • Write about making green eggs and ham and your opinion of how it tasted.
  • journal writing using sight words and new spring vocabulary
  • Students will continue to write letters to friends in our school
  • Continue setting and using writing goals
  • Continue Using story map to begin new beginning, middle, end story.

Social Studies/Science:

  • Social Studies Magazine Lesson
  • http://www.seussville.com – learn about Dr. Seuss
  • Complete Chart facts about each season
  • students will draw themselves in their favorite season, wearing the clothing they would wear during that season.
  • Make Oobleck

Feeling Buddies: Continue Connecting With Others Lesson

  • To learn connecting strategies as tools for turning your thinking brain on in preparation to manage challenges
  • Sing #14 Important Messages and Discuss the feelings messages in the song.
  • Review steps for getting ahold of our feelings instead of our feelings getting ahold of us.
  • Practice Breathing Arms with I Love You Ritual Partner and add that as a breathing strategy.
  • Practice Story Hand and Bye Bye Crankies Ritual with partner
  • Sequence steps of the Safe Place

Hope you all have a great week!!

 

 

 

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