Happy New Year!
Español Aquí: Enero Boletín I hope everyone's holiday break was restful and safe. It's been quite eventful over the last few weeks, but I'm glad to be back with everyone and see the kids just as happy to return to school. My priority in our return to campus during such an intense surge in the pandemic, is to ensure all the students in our classroom feel as safe as possible. So thank you for being so cooperative with the new guidelines for returning and I look forward to continue our learning this semester. Unfortunately, our classroom was one of many who had a positive case detected during the week, so I want to encourage all the students to bring proper masks. Cloth masks can be worn, but with 1 case in our classroom in the first week I'm hoping we can minimize the risks of others being infected by wearing medical masks, kn95, or N95. So far everyone in the classroom continues to feel well and the next COVID testing date will be tomorrow morning. I'd also like to highly encourage anyone who has a positive case in their household to keep their child home for the required quarantine days to minimize exposure to the rest of our students and their families. In our return last week, we welcomed a new student to our class and it's been a pleasure having Ona in our community! During the day, our class focused on setting goals for the year ahead of us in school, at home, and our personal hopes. We practiced sentence structure and mapping our ideas and we used this to create an art piece that shares our hopes for 2022. Below you can find a photo of the work some of the students created. This week we will focus on getting back into our Reader's Workshop routines of adding stories or novels that they are focusing on for the entire week or several weeks to their book bags. We will begin literature circles that focus on different strategies each group will practice that consist of phonics and/or comprehension skills based on their group's specific needs. In our small group and whole group instruction we will honor the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the teachings he promoted to dismantle white supremacy. We'll read stories, watch short clips, and discuss how we can continue to promote his teaching and legacy everyday. Math will being bridging into solving word problems with teen numbers and above with 2 or 3 addends. We introduced new math manipulatives that represent tens and ones place value. When practicing math at home, I recommend asking them problems that use the language "How many more?" or "How much less?" as we will see this in our words problems throughout the remainder of the year. Important Dates: Tuesday- Early Dismissal 1:28 pm Wednesday- Theater Class @ 8:20 am Thursday- Library @ 11:00 am Friday- Music @ 1:30 I hope to have a great week!
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