Interactive Blog Links for the week: (right hand column)

Reading Target Skills:

Inferences

Writing:

Personal Narrative

Social Studies:

U.S. Government Ben's Guide
Patriotic Symbols
Top Tab: Pearson On-line books (access with student username and password)

Math Practice Sites:

Base-10 Block Subtraction Practice
Skip Counting to 100
Base-10 Block Subtraction Practice
Complements of 10
Adding Three Numbers
Doubles Level 1
Doubles Level 2
Doubles Level 3
Subtraction Double-Digit BBB Rule (example)

Dear Families,

I hope to see everyone (children and adults) at Open House this Tuesday evening. Your children have been working diligently to show you all of their beautiful work. Please scroll down for details.

Interactive blog links will now be listed at the top of the blog post each week. This should help students access the different Target Skills that coincide with our curriculum each week.

OPEN HOUSE

Dear Parents and Students:

You and your family are cordially invited to attend May Watts School’s Open House on Tuesday, January 31, 2012.   We are holding only one Open House this year.  To alleviate being overcrowded, we are asking families whose last name begins with “A thru L” attend from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.  Families whose last name begins with “M thru Z” are requested to attend from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.  

This is an excellent opportunity for you and your family to see your children's work, meet your child's teacher and see your school.  All members of our support staff will also be available for you to visit.  Please be sure to stop by and visit with them. Due to the informal nature of the night, it will not be possible to conduct parent/teacher conferences.  Our next conference date is Tuesday, February 21^st,  or you can call the teacher anytime to schedule a meeting. 

There will not be a Book Fair during Open House this year.  We will be holding the Book Fair in March and more information will be forthcoming.

Please remember to check our "Lost & Found" which will be on display in the Office hallway during the evening.  Any items not claimed this evening will be donated to a charity.

We will open all outside building doors in order for you to enter the building so that you may park in the rear of the building.   Come on in.  We are looking forward to your visit. 

Reading:

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Your child is reading Dear Mr. Blueberry, by Simon James. In this story, a little girl named Emily writes letters to Mr. Blueberry, her teacher, telling him she has seen a whale in her backyard pond. Mr. Blueberry writes back, giving her details about whales and plenty of reasons why there can’t be a whale in her pond. Emily, however, continues to write to him about the day she and the whale say good-bye at the beach. Please encourage your child to read Dear Mr. Blueberry over the weekend. Vocabulary Power precedes the story.

Focus Skill: Make Inferences

Vocabulary Power: details-small bits of information;

disappoint-to make someone sad because something expected did not happen

forcibly-strongly, by force

information-facts about a person, place, or thing

oceans-large bodies of salt water where whales and other animals live

stroke-to rub something gently

School-Home Connection:

You and your child might enjoy reading about other animals and surprising events: Dogs in Space, by Nancy Coffelt; The Dinosaur Who Lived in My Backyard, by B.G. Hennessy; Big Blue Whale, by Nicola Davies