Knuffle Bunny Speeches

Today we all gave our Knuffle Bunny speeches. Before we gave our speeches, we felt shy, happy, scared, good, nervous, embarrassed, and afraid. During our speeches we worked on volume and eye contact. When we were the audience, we worked on listening. After we gave our speeches, we felt happy, relieved, silly, awesome, special and good.

The Buzz in B5!

Thank You!

For all the valentine’s boxes being made, valentines filled out, permission slips returned and speech practice! I know it was a busy two weeks and your help was greatly appreciated!

Heifer Project

If you plan on donating to the Heifer Project can you please send in your donation by Friday? We are hoping to have a final count by Monday. Thank you for your donations.

Field Trips

We are currently scheduling a spring field trip to the Willamette Art Center as well as Down By the Riverside. If you are interested in being a chaperone, please make sure you have filled out a background check. These take several weeks to process so now is a good time to do it.

Legibility

Thank you for working on this at home. We are working hard in the classroom on legibility and I am starting to see results! 

Notes Home on Feb. 9

Legibility

You might have heard your student talking about legibility. This is a focus in our work right now. I am looking for legibility not only in writing but in math as well. Please help remind your student to be legible whenever they write something.

Valentine’s Day Party

We’ll be starting at 2:30 on the 14. Please send in valentine holders (see Thursday Thoughts from last week) and completed valentines Friday and Tuesday.

Sum Dog

A new challenge is up and running! Have fun!

Money

We are learning to count coin currently. Please have your student practice counting collection on coins that have pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters.

Speech!

Please don’t forget the Knuffle Bunny Speech homework. It is due February 16.

B5 News

Thank you!!

Thanks to all of you who have already sent in your student’s picture with their favorite stuffed animal! We are currently adding them to a Photostory project they are working on in computer lab. Please continue to email them or send them in! We’d like to finish by Friday the 10.

Valentines Day

Our party is February 14 at 2:30. I will be needing volunteers to help with handing out goodies and opening all the valentines. Let me know if you can come in and help that afternoon. The money you donated to the class party fund will supply all the goodies for the party.

Reading Help at Home

 Accuracy Help:

One of the skills we teach in reading is using “chunking”. This is a more successful strategy than letter by letter decoding. To help your student “chunk” words, have them find small bits of the word that they know like re, bl, sh, ch, pl pr, as examples. Have them read the first chunk then the next and so on. For example the word discover becomes dis-cov-er, then read the word again saying it correctly. Another “chunking” trick has to do with word endings. If your student is having difficulty with a word with an ending (-s, -es, -ing, -ed, -ly etc.), have them cover up the ending and see if they know the word without it. If not then begin “chunking “the word.

Fluency Help:

Model fluent reading for your student. Pick a page in a book and read to your student modeling good reading. Then have your student read it like you did.

Comprehension Help:

When finished with a book, have your student retell the story or ask if the book reminds them of anything. Also ask simple questions that the answer can be found in the book.

Email Changes

In two weeks, our district is changing email services. My address will not change! We expect a smooth transition, but if  you email me around the 17 and I do not respond in 24 hours, you might want to give me a call.