This Week in Room 8 (12/4 to 12/8)

We will be MAP testing Tuesday through Friday this week.

Please make sure your child has working headphones, 

a good night's sleep, and a good breakfast.

ELA:

This week we will be working on the following skills:

• Homophones
• -ed endings (doubling final consonant, not doubling, dropping the final e)
• Non-fiction text features (identifying and stating how the text feature helps the reader)
• Researching facts about animal for Writer's Workshop

Word Wall Words:

wash

or    

before    

been   

off

Math:

This week we will be working on the following skills:

• Continued practice with graphing
• Continued practice with true or false equations
• Continued practice with identifying the missing number in an equation (4 + 5 = 6 + ?)
• Continued practice with strategies for addition and subtraction (using 120 chart to add 34 + 58)

Leader in Me:

This week we will take a closer look at individual goal setting using a plus/delta chart.

Hour of Code:

This week we will be having Hour of Code. We are thankful for the opportunities we have experienced so far this year with coding and robotics in the classroom. We have also enjoyed teaching others about these important computer science skills. We will be learning new coding apps and exploring new skills during our Hour of Code. Please check out this link for more information on Hour of Code!

What is the Hour of Code?

The Hour of Code started as a one-hour introduction to computer science, designed to demystify "code", to show that anybody can learn the basics, and to broaden participation in the field of computer science. It has since become a worldwide effort to celebrate computer science, starting with 1-hour coding activities but expanding to all sorts of community efforts. 

This Week in Room 8 (11/27 to 12/1)

MAP Testing

We will begin our MAP testing next week. We will be testing Tuesday, December 5th - Friday, December 8th. Please make sure your child has a good night's sleep, a good breakfast, and working headphones. 

ELA

This week we are working on identifying and explaining the purpose of different non-fiction text features. We know that informational text/non-fiction text gives information and does not tell a story. Some of the text features we are learning more about are on this list from Wilkes-Barre Area School District's website- please click the link below:

text features, definitions, and examples

We are also learning about how -ed endings show that the verb is past tense. We are understanding the different sounds -ed can make, even though we spell all of the past tense verbs with -ed. We are also learning when to double the consonant before adding the -ed ending (when there is one vowel and one consonant following the vowel in the base word).

Sight Words

• don't
• right
• their
• call
• sleep

Reading

• Continue focus on non-fiction text features
• Continue working on finding text evidence when answering questions

Math

• Determine if equations involving addition and or subtraction are true or false
• Applying our knowledge of numbers to solve <, =, and >
• determine unknown addends or minuends in addition and subtraction sentences
• review organizing, representing and interpreting data in a graph 

This Week in Room 8 (11/6- 11/10)

Friday, November 10th is no school in observance of Veterans Day. 

Our annual Special Someone's Day is coming up on Friday, November 17th. For those who are new to Kipling, Special Someone Day is when up to two people who are special to your child can come and spend a half hour with your child in our classroom. This can be a parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle, family friend, etc. 1st Grade's Special Someone time is from 9:45-10:15. 

Please click on the this link to fill out the form letting the school know who will be coming for your child. 

Please let me know if no one will be able to come for your child as I would like to be able to provide a special someone in the school to be there for your child.

In conjunction with Special Someone Day, the annual Scholastic Book Fair will be going on. Your child's special someone can feel free to go to big gym and view the Book Fair after their time in your child's classroom. Unfortunately, students will not be available to go with their special someone to the Book Fair. 

ELA

This week we will be working on the following skills:

Phonics

• r controlled vowels ar, ur, er , ir, or
• ch/wh/sh/th
• adding -s and -es for plural words

Grammar

• Verbs  - action words

Sight Words

• review 

Reading

• Focus on non-fiction text features- table of contents, headings, photographs, captions, index, glossary, diagrams etc. 
• Identifying main ideas and details in non-fiction and informational text.

Writing

We are beginning our next unit of writing - non fiction. Students will be learning how to write about topics they want to teach others

Math

• Addition (adding doubles, adding with/without regrouping)
• Subtraction (counting back, using a number line/hundreds chart)
• understanding the meaning of the equal sign.  (5 + 3 = 4 + 4 reading as 8 is the same as 8)
• determine if equations involving addition and/or subtraction are true or false.

Science

• How do plants and animals take in food, water, air and light?
• How do plants and animals stay safe?

Leader in Me
Students will. . .

• identify ways that we have been effective leaders.
• identify areas of leadership that we find challenging.

This Week in Room 8 (10/23-10/27)

ELA: 

Skills that we will work on this week include the following:

• sh/th/ch/wh sounds
• adding endings -es, -ed, and -ing
• characteristics of fiction and non-fiction text
• alphabetical order

Writer's Workshop:

We continue to work on brave spelling, unfreezing our characters, adding juicy details about one small moment, and reading our writing like a reader.

Word Wall Words:

• stop  
• fly   
• round   
• give   
• once 

Rooted Mind:

This week we will be reviewing Weeks 1-5

uni- means one
tri- means three
form- means to shape
vaca/vac- means empty
struc/struct- means to build

Math:

This week we will be introducing the following math skills:

• Commutative Property (identifying that 3 +2 = 5 is the same as 2 + 3 = 5.
• Associative Property (To add 2 + 6 + 4, the second  two  numbers can be added to make a ten, so 2 + 6 + 4 = 2 + 10 = 12).
• We will continue to work on adding and subtracting multiples of ten from numbers on the 120 chart (56 +20 = 76 or 89 -30 = 59). We know that when we subtract a multiple of ten we go towards the top of the chart- number gets smaller and when we add a multiple of ten we go towards the bottom of the chart- number gets larger.

Science:

We are making observations on our lima, kidney, and pinto beans.  Please check out our class blog on Seesaw:

https://blog.seesaw.me/cacioppoleaders

Leader in Me:

We will continue to explore "Think Win-Win" as we explore ways to problem solve with peers and help those that are in need (in and out of Kipling).

Constructing Plants, Teaching Others #Robotics, and our 1st Assembly!

We buddied up and began synergizing to construct a plant that can stand on

 its own with the following plant parts:

roots

stem

leaves

flower

bud

Check out our building time!

The 5th Graders led the first assembly of the school year.

Mrs. Buch and Mrs. Sutic announce the Leadership Winners for October.

Congratulations to our leaders!

We are building our endurance reading.

At the beginning of the year, we started with 5 mintues of independent reading time.

Today we read for 18 minutes without distractions! 

WOOHOO!

Our class taught Mrs. Johnson's First Grade Class some of the robotics and coding we have learned so far this year.

We taught them how to use Cubelets, Dash, Ozobots, and coding apps like Daisy the Dinosaur and Lightbot.

I am so proud of our leadership in Kipling!

Afterwards, we took a few moments to reflect on how it felt to teach others about 

coding and robotics!