Classroom Ph: 786-1800: ext. 3227, e-mail: devinev@westottawa.
net
Dates to Remember
Dec. 22 – Jan. 3 Winter Break
Jan. 4 School Resumes
What’s New:
On the website:
*This week’s newsletter
*Volunteer Calendar
*Winter Workshop Photos
*Meijers Shopping Photos
*Christmas Party Photos
*Christmas in the Gym Photos
Special Notes:
*Ear Buds: We will be using our
grade level Chromebooks more
after the holiday break. You may
want to purchase some Ear Buds
for your students stocking to send
so they have their own. I have
several pair we share but if you prefer
your student have their own you
may want to do this!
Christmas Party – A big THANK YOU
to Mrs. Vosburg and all the parents
who helped at or with supplies for
our party. We had a great time!
Vacation/Extended Time: If you
are pulling your kids early for
break or not returning on time
please let me know! It helps me
to plan and know who is missing
what! WE will be learning NEW
material Jan. 4 & 5 and preparing
for our mid-year testing!
Webpage: msdevinesclass.com December 22, 2017
Reading/Language Arts
Our learning targets for reading this week have included:
*long i vowel sound made by the CVCe pattern
*digraphs wh, ch, tch, and ph
*blending words.
*rhyming words
*understanding syllables
*understanding author’s pourpose in our reading
*learning new vocabulary.
*being able to identify special titles & capitalize/punctuate
*reading just right books
Our Writing learning targets have focused on:
*writing an explanation! As we looked at community jobs this week we
focused our writing on writing about a person who teaches us to do
something. We have written about parents, coaches, and teachers who
teach us to do different things. We have worked on using special titles
correctly in our writing and on conventions! Special note: We did days 1-3
of our work this week and took 2 days for some holiday learning!
In our holiday learning we read both a fiction and non-fiction piece on
reindeer! We read A Wild Christmas Reindeer by Jan Brett and a mini-book
Reindeer. We made reindeer antlers and wrote about reindeer too!
Math
This week’s math learning
targets have focused on:
*addition number stories with
teen totals
*making new tens
*adding doubles, doubles +1,
doubles +2, doubles -1, doubles -
Christmas Party Fun! 2
*representing 2-digit numbers as
tens and ones (with sticks &
Mid-Year Testing/Holiday Break
circles, and equations)
Important: Everyone should have Special Note: Many students
received an email from me this week want to stop doing the dots,
letting you know how your student making a new ten, and using the
did on our 1 minute timed reading 10 + __ equation to help them,
test. The test checked to see if they BUT they are making many,
are prepared for the 23 wpm bench
many errors because they don’t
mark goal we are all hoping to make in
get the concept. It is important
January. If you did not get one please
let me know! PLEASE keep your we not skip that step for further
children reading for F U N over the learning purposes!
break!!