Valentine's Day Celebration

We will be having a Valentine’s Day celebration this Friday the 13^th. If your student is planning on bringing valentines for the class please make sure that he/she brings one for each student. We have 26 students in our classroom and a class list will follow.

Deacon

Kaelynn

Keith

Bryanna

Joseph

Mekhi

Jeilon

Issac

Jordan

Taylor

Joshua

Isaiah

Victoria

Jewell

Trevaughn

Britney

Raina

Davion

Nicolas

Jaylin

Harmoni

Yahshua

Taylor

Asia

Tabytha

Michael

If you would like to donate any treats to our classroom, please make sure and post what you would like to bring so we don’t have a lot of duplicate items. Things like candy, cupcakes, juice boxes, chips, and plastic Ziploc bags would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

-Ian Grzesik

Reading/Writing/Spelling News

READING NEWS:

This week we will be working on building our reading stamina by reading long and strong from our book boxes. We will practice any strategy we have learned so far this year.

WRITING NEWS:

This week we continued our writer’s workshop personal essay writing. We will learn how to support big ideas from stories with evidence from their own lives by reading a couple of short stories and thinking about how they relate to our own lives. We will also learn how to create opinion statements for our own personal essays by using a graphic organizer to help us capture our thoughts on opinions.

SPELLING NEWS:

Spelling this week is letter blends (-or, -ar, -ore, and –oar). Every child gets a hard copy of their spelling words each Monday to take home to study. Please double check to make sure that they have it in their take home folder.

story

wore

north

board

form

corner

warm

score

morning

forget

before

storm

tore

order

war

Our spelling test will be on Friday.

HOMEWORK: Your child should be studying their spelling words every night as well as reading 20 minutes and recording it on their February reading log. Those reading logs will be due March 2^nd.

Study Island

We have started using a new computer program here at Roosevelt called Study Island. Every student from Mr. Peri and Mr. Grzesik’s class gets to go on this program at least 40 minutes a week to help practice some of the things we’ve been learning in the classroom. You can access this program at home and we would love to see your student using this at home 3 nights a week.

Your student’s log in information is:

User name: firstname.lastname@fps

Password: 123

Your student can practice any of the information that has been placed on their by one of their teachers.

Don’t forget to have your child try there best and if they get above a 75% on the information you get to take a break and play a game!

Find the website here: www.studyisland.com

Reading/Writing/Spelling News

READING NEWS:

This week we learned that readers expect to learn alongside their characters. We will do this by thinking about life lessons Opal, the main character from “Because of Winn-Dixie”, learned and how we can attribute that to our lives. We will also learn that readers celebrate the lessons characters have learned that apply to their own lives. We will do that by reading in our partnerships and discussing those life lessons.

WRITING NEWS:

This week we started our next Writers Workshop unit, opinion/argument writing. We will learn how to collect ideas like an essayist. We will also complete a couple of sections in our data binders. The sections we will complete are our mid-year goals and our quick write reflection page. We will look at our first quick write piece and compare that to our most recent quick write piece to see how we have grown as a writer.

SPELLING NEWS:

Spelling this week is letter blends (-sh,-ch,-th,-wr, and –tch)

shape

church

watch

father

wrap

check

finish

sharp

mother

write

catch

chase

shall

thick

wrote

Our spelling test will be on Friday.

HOMEWORK: Your child should be studying their spelling words every night as well as reading 20 minutes and recording it on their January reading log. Those reading logs will be due February 2^nd.

Scholastic book orders will be placed on Friday January 30^th. This is a change from what was placed on the book order. Please make sure to have those book orders in by this Friday. Don’t forget, the more books you and your child order help us get more books for our classroom.

Reading/Writing/Spelling News

READING NEWS:

This week, as a reader, we learned that characters have what it takes to overcome challenges. We will do this by reading the blurbs on the back of multiple books and thinking what kind of traits that character shows to get them through any potential challenges. We also will learn that secondary characters often teach the main character something. We will discuss the secondary characters from our mentor text ‘Because of Winn-Dixie’ and find out what effect they had on our main character.

WRITING NEWS:

This week we started our next Writers Workshop unit, opinion/argument writing. We completed our pre-assessment writing piece and will learn how to collect ideas like an essayist.

SPELLING NEWS:

No Spelling this week due to Martin Luther King Jr. Day as well as a records day on Friday.

HOMEWORK: Your child should be studying their spelling words every night as well as reading 20 minutes and recording it on their January reading log. Those reading logs will be due February 2^nd.

Our Gonoodle Brain Breaks!

Wondering what to do on that cold/snow day while your child is looking bored or has a bit too much energy? Maybe they just want to do some dances at home? If that’s the case then head to www.gonoodle.com and have them do a couple of fun “brain breaks” at home. These are fun little movement activities that help them refocus or get their wiggles out.

The website is free to sign up for and offers tons of good videos for kids to move along to!

Still not sure about signing up for it? Check us out doing some of our “brain breaks”!

Martin Luther King Jr. Peace Parade here at Roosevelt!

Mr. Peri and Mr. Grzesik would like to invite you to come see your child walk around our school in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.

At 2:00 on Friday afternoon we will be parading around the school (with many very cool art pieces).

Please join us in this march to honor the life and vision of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.