02/03-07/2020

 

This week we read a bunch of different versions of the Gingerbread Man/Boy. We worked on identifying problems and solutions, characters and settings, comparing the different stories, and even more. Today students got to write their own gingerbread story and create a gingerbread out of paper and other craft materials. It was great to see their imaginations going! Ask them which story was their favorite and why? Who were the characters? What was the problem and solution? 

In math this week we continued to work on addition. We worked on adding using our fingers, with drawings, with dice, dominoes, and even students. We discussed how adding is putting two numbers together and we get a bigger number for the answer. We also discussed how to make a number sentence _+_=_. We looked at each number sentence we wrote and discussed how 3+1 & 1+3 will both equal 4, or how 2+2, 3+1, 1+3, 4+0, and 0+4 all equal 4! Next week we will start to work on subtraction. We also continued to work on counting to 100 by ones, fives, and tens! We have a chart in our class with every students name and when they can count to 100 by either ones, fives, or tens they get to put a sticker next to their names. We are encouraging them to practice counting at home as well. Our goal is to get every student in our class counting to 100 by ones, fives, and tens!

In writing this week we started off with our letter of the week Y and discussed how it can make 3 different sounds! We also focused on writing about Groundhog Day. Students practiced labeling a groundhog, writing facts about the groundhog, making predictions on whether the groundhog would or would not see his shadow, and writing sentences about groundhogs. We continue to work on sounding out words to write, starting a sentence with a capital, putting spaces between words, and ending with punctuation (. ? !). 

We will be doing our next stem day on Thursday January 27th, 2020. A letter was sent home this week about materials needed. I am also adding it here. 

Dear Kindergator Parents, Our next STEM activity is quickly approaching! We need your help in obtaining the materials the students will need to complete the project. Please consider sending in any of the following materials:

•  -quilt filling (looks like a big bag of cottony material) 
• -sugar cubes
•  -tissue/shoes boxes (empty)
•  -toilet paper rolls / paper towel rolls 
• -Saran Wrap – blue color only
•  -aluminum foil 
• -construction paper
•  -chenille sticks 
• -tissue paper-white, green, blue
•  -cotton balls 
• -Playdough or Crayola Air Dry Clay- White
•  -Anything the students could use to depict an arctic habitat

We will be having some fun next Friday for Valentines day. We will be sorting conversation hearts, graphing how many we have of each, doing an experiment with conversation hearts, and handing out valentines. A letter went home last week about valentines day and what is needed. I am attaching it here as well (Please note we did get a new student so we are now at 23). 

News from Music

Hello Parents!

All Addison students now have access to Student Interactives on www.quavermusic.com

QuaverMusic.com – World-Class General Music Education Resources Growing library of over 1,200 songs for every teaching and learning need www.quavermusic.com

which is a resource we use in the music room. Use the PowerPoint provided as your guide for logging into the website. If you have any questions, please email me at michele.champion@cobbk12.org.

THANKS!

Dr. Sampson

Dr. Michele Sampson, music specialist

Addison Elementary School

First Steps in Music and Orff Schulwerk Certified

MIE Certified

President, Atlanta Area Orff Chapter

www.aesmusicroom.weebly.com

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• 02/04/2020: Picture Day
• 02/10-14/2020: Teacher Appreciation Week
• 02/11/2020: Papa John's Night
• 02/14/2020: Progress Reports go home
• 02/17-21/2020: Winter Break (NO SCHOOL)
• 02/25/20202: Firehouse Sub Night
• 02/28/2020: FBI Breakfast (7:00-7:45 am)

01/20-24/2020

This week in reading we read Snowmen at Night. We discussed the parts of the book, the characters and setting. Students had to put the story in order of how it happened. They got to draw their favorite part of the story (what the snowmen did), and what they would do if they were snowmen. And we finished up with them continuing with what they would do if they were snowmen at night and they had to give two reasons why they chose what they did. 

In math this week we continued to work on our math journals. We worked more on shapes, and measurement. We graphed our favorite winter activities and identified which had the most/least. We reviewed numbers that come before and after, as well as which is more or less. We even started to add a little bit. We will continue working on adding next week!

We are also continuing to work on counting to 100 by ones and tens. I let the class know I would be making a counting to 100 (by ones, tens, and fives) chart this weekend and when someone is able to count to one hundred fluently by ones, fives, or tens they would get to put a sticker on the chart. Our goal is to get everyone counting to 100 then having a party! I told them to practice at home as well. You can check out Jack Hartmann's videos on counting to 100 by ones, tens, and fives, they all really like them. 

In writing this week we worked on sounding out words. We all seem to be struggling with it. I am telling them that I do not care that they spell the words right, but I want to see the sounds they hear in the words. I tell them to say the word really slow and hear each sound. We also worked a little more on writing sentences and knowing that letters make words, and words together makes a sentence, and we need spaces in our words, and punctuation at the end. 

We started our January STEM project today. We are making a map of the school from a bird eyes view. Then they will have to decide the fastest escape route from their map. They will program a Bee Bot or a Coding Mouse to get out of their map. We looked at our escape route map from our classroom, and they brainstormed on what they thought the school looked like from a birds eye view. Then they had to draw what they thought the fastest escape route would be. Then each group got a sheet of chart paper with two stickers on each end for doors. We discussed how our hallway is long with doors at each end. Then we took a walk down the halls and found other hallways with doors and put them on the map, along with stickers for the doors. When we come back on Monday they will decide as a group which route they think is the best, then predict what they have to program on the Bee Bot or Coding Mouse. 

• 01/06/2020- Students return to school
• 01/09/2020- Foundation Meeting
• 01/13/2020- Penny Wars Begin
• bring pennies to put in Kindergarten, and silver coins dollars to put in other grades (takes away from their pennies). We want to WIN!
• 01/17/2020- 100th Day of School
• 01/20/202- NO SCHOOL (MLK, Jr. Day)
• 01/23/2020- Chick-Fil-A Night (5-8pm)
• 01/24/2020- Father/Daughter Dance (6-9pm)
• 01/30/2020- STEM Night (6pm)
• 01/31/2020- FBI Breakfast (7-7:45pm)

100th Day Fun!

We had so much fun on the 100th day!

We made 100 piece trail mix

• They had to count out 10 pieces of each of the 10 items. 
• Thank you all so much for the donations!

We made a 100 snowflake snowglobe!

We did 100 Exercise

(10 times for 10 movements)

We worked on writing 100 words, but came up short (too busy rest of day), will continue next week.....We will Finish!

We also wrote about what we would buy with $100. Made a self portrait of what we would look like when we are 100 years old, and what we would do if we were 100! 

01/13-17/2020

This week in reading we read Sneezy the Snowman. With it we discussed how to build a snowman, they drew pictures and wrote how to build a snowman in order. We discussed cause and effect, students identified the cause (hot cocoa, hot tub, fire) and the effect (sneezy melted). We also worked on the order of the book, what happened first-seventh. Students also worked on a sheet to tell how else sneezy could be just right, not to hot and not to cold. And, we ended with creating a melted snowman, and writing an alternate ending for sneezy. 

In math this week we continued to work in our math journals. We practiced adding one more, and roll to make a snowman (rolled dice and drew what that number represented). We worked on measurement, students had to decorate the biggest snowman in each group, and measure snowflakes with cubes and write the number for how many cubes. We did a review on shapes, and they had to color certain shapes on each page, and we even made shapes out of playdough. 

This week in writing we also combined social studies and we focused on MLK Jr. We read books and watched videos on him and all he has done, and had some great discussions. Students got to label a picture of MLK Jr., as well as did a word sort with Dream, Speech, and fair. Students also worked on writing sentences about MLK Jr. and worked on starting with capital letter, putting spaces between words, and ending with punctuation. We ran out of time for their dream project (what their dream is), so we will work on it Monday.

We went to science lab this week and talked about living, non living, and once living. Mrs. Knobbe asked students what things needed to to be alive, and how we know if something was once living. She had planned on us going outside and finding items that were living, non living, and once living, but the weather was not so great. We still were able to go out under the awnings and find a few things. Thank you to the volunteers that come and help, it is really appreciated!

 

So, it is that time of year that germs are still all over and spreading. We do ask the students to wash their hands a lot and use sanitizer, as well as wipe down tables, and clean the classroom. With that being said we are low on Lysol wipes. If you would like to donate them we would be so grateful!

• 01/06/2020- Students return to school
• 01/09/2020- Foundation Meeting
• 01/13/2020- Penny Wars Begin
• bring pennies to put in Kindergarten, and silver coins dollars to put in other grades (takes away from their pennies). We want to WIN!
• 01/17/2020- 100th Day of School
• 01/20/202- NO SCHOOL (MLK, Jr. Day)
• 01/23/2020- Chick-Fil-A Night (5-8pm)
• 01/24/2020- Father/Daughter Dance (6-9pm)
• 01/30/2020- STEM Night (6pm)
• 01/31/2020- FBI Breakfast (7-7:45pm)