Classroom Ph: 786-1800: ext. 3227, e-mail: devinev@westottawa.
net
Dates to Remember:
Oct. 1-5 Spirit Week
Oct. 5 Fun Run
Oct. 8 PTA Meeting, 7 pm
Oct. 25 ½ day Parent Teacher
Conferences, 1-4, 5-8 pm
Oct. 30 Parent Teacher Conf. 5-8
Oct. 31 No School for students
What’s New:
On the website:
*Calendar
*Apple Orchard Pictures
Special Notes:
Spirit Week Schedule:
Monday: Family Feud Day (k-2
wear all black; 3-5 all white);
Sack Race
Tuesday: Pajama Day; TugO’War
Wed: Dress to Impress; Pudding
Plunge
Thursday: Day;
Water Balloon Toss
Friday: Spirit Day; Assembly
Thank you to all our Apple Orchard
chaperones! We appreciate you! We
had a great time!
Webpage: msdevinesclass.com Sept. 28, 2018
Reading/Language Arts
In Language Arts our learning targets this week have included:
*review of the letters Dd, Ll, and Hh and their beginning and ending sounds.
*vowel sound “o”
*Sight word review
*blending sounds
*recognizing Simple Sentences as a complete idea with a noun, verb, capital
& period
*identifying five senses words
*Realism/Fantasy – understanding what is real & make believe
In writing this week we have continued to work on writing complete
sentences with capitals, space, periods, and using verb that really tell what
we are doing. We used five senses words and learned to use a web to helps
us write! We wrote about our trip to the Apple Orchard from a web we
made!
Baggie Books are up and running. Students have the same 8-10 books
for a week and are attempting to read each at least 3 times so they are
fluent and able to retell the main ideas! Volunteers begin next week and
students have a day they exchange all books in which they are proficient!
Math
This week our learning targets have included:
*demonstrating mastering of Unit 1 concepts regarding number recognition
and partners to 10 through the unit test
*using addition to solve problems and visualize equality
Students have learned to use picture drawings and circle drawings to
model problems and find solutions.
We also began 2 new things during math! The first is MATH TEAMS.
Math Teams are mixed ability teams of 2-3 students who sit together and
work together as a team. They do this for teaching/whiteboard instruction
and during work time. The 2nd new idea is our No Write Zone which is an
area where students go without pencils, with their team, to check their daily
work. They have erasers to erase wrong answers so then they can go fix
their work! They do this as a team before making individual math choices!
This frees me up to help students who are struggling with a concept and
need extra help! It is not routine yet but we are working at it!
Fun Run Update
As of Friday morning, our class has raised $687 of our $1100 goal! We
have $413 to go. We are also in 2nd place overall, however 3rd is only
$50 behind and we are out of 1st by about $150! The students were
super excited when we were announced in 2nd after Thursday’s Bank
Day! Thanks for all you’re doing and for helping our students and WZ
to reach their goal. When everyone does a little it makes a BIG
difference! Go WO!