What a fantastic first full week of school we had! It's hard to believe that Monday is our 12th day of school together! Time really does fly when you are having fun! 😃🎉
This week we charged up our brand new Chromebooks and got reacquainted with JiJi the penguin in ST Math! Ask your child what type of math JiJi is having them practice to learn more about this wonderful program! 💻
Acting out our small moment stories in Writer's Workshop! Getting our bodies involved in telling our stories made it so much easier to plan what we would write! Keep up the great job writers! ✏
Sharing our small moment stories in Writer's Workshop!
This week's read alouds focused on kindness and acceptance! ❤
We had so much fun playing a math game this week in Math Workshop! We took turns, played fairly and used quiet voices! Way to go mathematicians!
Thank you to our Literacy Specialist Mrs. Miles for coming into our classroom and getting us excited for Reader's and Writer's Workshop this year! 🎉
Room 118 FUNdation detectives were on the hunt for words with c, k, and ck on Friday! We put the fun in FUNdations!
Announcements
Scholastic Book Order!
The Scholastic book order for September has been placed and should be arriving soon! I will send books home as soon as I receive them! 📚
Open House
I look forward to meeting all that can attend Boyden's Open House on Tuesday, September 28, 2021. I will be sharing curriculum expectations along with information specific to our classroom. You will also have time to ask general questions! Any questions specific to your child should be reserved for a more confidential setting. Also, during these times our specialists and other service providers will be available for parents/guardians to meet and hear about the work they do with students. The Open Houses at all of the Walpole Elementary Schools are for Parents and Guardians only. Students, other family members, and guests should not attend. All parents and guardians must wear masks while in Boyden. Thank you for your understanding Schedule: 6:00 PM - 6:30 PM Families with Last Name Beginning with A-L* 6:45 PM - 7:15 PM Families with Last Name Beginning with M-Z* *If you have more than one child, please email me and we will find a time to connect!
The Week Ahead
Our Specials this Week
This year specials are scheduled on a 4 day rotation, rather than on specific days of the week. Please see our schedule below for the upcoming week!
Monday (Day 4)
Tuesday (Day 1) Art
Wednesday (Day 2) PE *Don't forget your sneakers!
Thursday (Day 3) Music
Friday (Day 4) Social Emotional Learning
FUNdations ✏
This week we will finish Unit 1 in our FUNdations program! We will then move on to Unit 2, which continues to review closed, one-syllable words. We will also review "glued" or welded sounds: am, an, ang, ing, ong, ung, ank, ink, onk, and unk. We will discuss bonus letters f, l and s. Finally, we will learn five new sounds: ar, er, ir, or and ur.
Reader's Workshop 📚
This week in Reader's Workshop we will practice rolling up our sleeves to figure out tricky words, learn how to use more than one reading strategy at a time, and focus on how some beginnings and endings of words can be read in a snap!
Writer's Workshop 🖊
Our first unit in Writer's Workshop is Personal Narratives, which we also refer to as “Small Moment Stories”. These are stories your child will write about his/her own life, zooming in on a small moment in time. By focusing on a small moment in time, writers can add details to make that moment come to life with words. For example:
Big Topic: Riding my bike Small Moment: 1st time I rode without training wheels
Big Topic: My dogs Small Moment: The time when my dogs escaped through the
fence gate
Big Topic: Summer Small Moment: Collecting seashells at the beach with Grandma
Did you share any special times over the summer? Does your family have any special traditions? Has your family visited a special place or taken a trip? These memories are the seeds your child can use to “grow” a story.
I kindly ask you to spend a few minutes talking with your child about the people,, places, things, and experiences that are important to them. Encourage your child to zoom in on a small moment in time. Your child can use these ideas throughout our Personal Narrative unit!
This week in Writer's Workshop we will bring our stories to life by including what our characters did and said and we will get inspiration for our work from mentor authors!
Math 🖩
In math this week we will review how to add 0, 1 and 2, practice our doubles facts, and learn more about near doubles equations.
Science/Social Studies 🌎
This week in science we will answer the question, "What is science?" In Social Studies we will learn the difference between maps and globes and will also learn about the United States Constitution.
⭐Important Dates: ⭐
Friday, September 24th
Early Release Day 11:55 Dismissal
No lunches served
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Tuesday, September 28th
Open House
6:00PM - 7:15PM
I hope you had a great weekend and have a fabulous week ahead!
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