Silent E

We watched a neat video clip from The Electric Company about the silent E.  You can click the snowflake below to enjoy it while on your snowy weekend!

Homework and Donations

HOMEWORK

Writing Homework Books were sent home on Monday.  Please make sure that your child includes a picture with his/her writing.  Below is an example of a writing piece from a student with a picture on top and words on the bottom half of the page.  Information on how to help your child complete the homework is inside the Writing Homework Book.  Please have your child return it to school every Friday.  Please feel free to ask me any questions.

Little Book Bags will now be sent home every day from Monday to Thursday.  Please make sure that your child brings this book back the next school day.  We will be using it in your child's small reading group instruction.  

Poetry Folders will be going home once each week, either on Mondays or Tuesdays.  Your child is to bring it back the next school day.  

CLASS DONATIONS

We are looking for donations to help create games in the classroom and party items.  A Valentine's party letter will also be sent home soon, be on the lookout for it in your child's folder.

We are looking for:

Gallon sized Ziploc Bags

24 Paper White Bags with Handles (an example of it is below) to put Valentine's cards in

Thank you for your support!

Tynker and Computer Programming

We have been working on fun activities in school dealing with the beginnings of computer programming.  You can go to www.tynker.com and click on the words, "Hour of Code" for free activities or click on the icon below to take you directly there.  The children have enjoyed working on them, starting at the Kindergarten age level and beyond.  Happy programming!

American Education Week

We are so excited to invite you to American Education Week at our school!  This is a time when you are able to come into the classroom to interact and observe your child learning.  Prior to the classroom visit is a parent presentation by the school principals.  Feel free to visit our school from 11:20 a.m.-12:55 p.m. on Tuesday, November 17th.  We look forward to seeing you there!

Applesauce

Thank you so much for sending in apples for our Apple Week.  The children used the apples in so many different ways: identifying parts of the apple, the life cycle of an apple, graphing our favorite apples, writing about apples using our 5 senses, reading a variety of text formats, and much more!  On Friday, our class read a recipe and then made applesauce in the classroom.  

Crock Pot Applesauce

Ingredients:

8 apples

1/2 cup water

1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

Directions:

1.  Peel, core and cut the apples into small pieces.

2.  Put the apple pieces into a slow cooker.

3.  Pour in the water.

4.  Turn the slow cooker on low and cook for 3 hours or until soft.

5.  Add the cinnamon and cook for an additional 30 minutes (optional).

6.  Stir the apples or use a potato masher to break up the apples.

7. Enjoy!

Green Meadows and Reminders

Our field trip to Green Meadows Farm is coming up and the children are all so excited!  

If you did not send in money to chaperone, you can still go!  Please just let me know ahead of time so that I can plan chaperone groups.  You provide your own transportation to the farm and then just pay at the gate.  If you have any questions about this, let me know.

If you click on the picture below, you can find more information about the farm.

Fall Festival party letters have gone out.  Our room parent, Hilary, has already contact parents via SignUp Genius with ways to volunteer and help out with the fun.  If you need her contact information, please let me know.  Siblings are not allowed to attend the parties due to school policy. 

 Don't forget that our Media Center/Library days are every Friday.  Please make sure that your child returns his/her book to school on this day.  A good place to keep it is in your child's backpack so that it is not lost or forgotten.  Thank you for having your child show one of the Centerville 3 R's: Responsibility.  

Mondays and Tuesdays are our P.E. days.  Please make sure that your child is wearing running shoes to school on this day.  Mr.  Black, our P.E. teacher thanks you for your support.

Behavior

Welcome to Mrs. Roth's class where all of our children are

Out of This World!

 

Above is a picture of the behavior system I use in my classroom. It supports positive behavior and good choices. 

 

All of the children start off at green (Ready to Blast Off). If a child is making good choices, he/she can move his/her clip up to light blue (Shining Star).  If a child continues to make good choices, he/she can move up to dark blue (Out of This World).  If a child is making poor choices, he/she move down to yellow (Reaching TOWARD the Stars), which is a warning.  If  he/she is continuing to make poor choices, the next stop is orange (Emergency Landing).  This is where a child will need to fill out a Problem Solving form with the teacher and reflect about the good choices that he/she should have been making and will model next time.  The bottom is red (More Training Needed, Phone Call Home).  This is where I call home or sometimes will have the child with me to discuss his/her choices and situation with his/her guardian.  A child can move up and down throughout the school day, so a child does not always automatically stay on yellow.  Also, if a child makes a very poor choice such as hitting, etc. a child may automatically move to orange or red. 

 

This system is put in place so that it is a positive manner to reinforce behavior.  It also is anonymous because there are numbers on the clips, not student names.  The children have to memorize his/her number (I help the children out with this at the beginning) and move that number up or down the rocket ship.