Winding down February

 

This week has been busy with parent conferences, a training on Wednesday, and one million other miscellaneous things on the to-do list.

We continued our unit on how to tell time in math. The students are really impressing me on how fast some of them are getting the concept. This past week, we learned why it’s important to be able to tell time. I asked them why it’s important and they said It’s important to tell time so that they are not late to the dentist or other places. We focused on vocabulary words like:

Half past

A quarter to

A quarter past

To the hour

We also worked on solving time through word problems. I am trying to incorporate more reading within math so they can practice their reading and problem solving skills. They need to be reading every chance they get in class. Next week we are supposed to be moving on to solving word problems but I think I might extend the time telling unit a couple more days or even for the whole week.

 

I spent hours preparing for the time telling math tubs this weekend. I was glad to see the kids had fun doing activities from the tub after completing their math work. The favorite one was the Bunny Time Telling.

Last week, we learned about super soil. There are soils called silt, clay, and sand. We compared the color, texture, and sizes of each soil. Each student was given 2 pieces of tape. They were to collect 2 different type of soil and compare the 2 in their spirals.

During VLA time, I am now starting to use from a Vietnamese learning program so you’ll see more Vietnamese work going home in their folders. Before this, we have been working on phonics, accents, and sight words. I am hoping to have them produce more Vietnamese orally and incorporate more reading. Right now, we have a set of sight words and then we’ll write sentences with our sight words.

quần = pants

quét = sweep

quà = present

pháo = fireworks

phòng = room

phở = Vietnamese noodle soup

 

What’s living or nonliving?! We learned how to say living and nonliving in Vietnamese and what makes something living. Something living needs water, food, shelter, air, and needs to be able to reproduce.

We worked with our science bilingual buddy to make a class book of things that are living and nonliving.

 

 

February is National Children’s Dental Month. We did a lot of different writing activities for health grades this month.

 

Mrs. Richey, our fabulous librarian, set up a presentation for us from people who work in the dental field to help us learn about how we could take care of our teeth.

 

One more week of school and it’s time for SPRING BREAK! I don’t know about y’all, but I’m ready. Make sure the kids are reading over the break!!! By the time we know it, I will be assessing the end of the year reading test again soon. They need to be at a level 16 at the end of the year.

AISD has decided to use March 3^rd as a weather inclement day instead of June 6^th. Last day of school will be June 5^th!