Friday Note 9-30

Events of the Week: 

Math: This week we started a new math topic over numbers 1-5.  We practiced identifying, counting, and writing each number.  Please practice writing these numbers at home with your child.  Earlier in the week, I assessed each child over measurement and I am excited and proud to say that every student scored proficient on this test!  This assessment was sent home today. 

Language Workshop: Our focus this week was on color review.   Our book for the week was Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?.  We read and practiced retelling this story using our story wheels.  We also made our own “Brown Bear Reader” to add to our book boxes.  Students had fun buddy reading with these books.  We also read several other fun color books like The Day the Crayons Quit, When the Crayons Came Home, and Pete the Cat: I like My White Shoes.  We wrote a letter to a crayon that went along with the book The Day the Crayons Quit.  I asked students to label their pictures and they did a great job sounding out the words!

Reading Workshop: This week during literacy centers I worked with students in small groups on being able to identify sight words, letters and letter sounds.  Next week I will be reading with students individually checking their understanding of concepts of print.  I’m using a level A text with sight words they should know (Ex: I like apples.).  I am asking your child questions such as, “Can you show me where to begin reading?” “How many words are in that sentence?” “Where would you read next?” “Can you point to an ending mark?”.  I’m also looking to see if they are using the picture for clues. 

Writing Workshop:  Each day we wrote a sentence from the story Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See?.  As a class we set at the carpet with a clipboard and talked about what we were going to write for the day.  Once we decided what our sentence was we counted the number of words in the sentence, we used sight words and color words to complete the sentence.  Once the sentence was complete, students got to draw a picture to match the sentence.  We call this process “Interactive Writing”.  Look for these papers in their folder.  Your child should be able to read each page to you independently.

 Content Workshop:  We did several different color mixing experiments this week!  We used water color, shaving cream and water to mix primary colors to make secondary colors.  We predicted what color we thought it would make then recorded our results.

 We also got to finger paint with primary colors and experiment to see what new colors we could come up with.    

Our sight word was “see” and our letters for the week were “Ff” and “Dd”.

Important Dates:

·        Oct. 4 ~ Fundraiser money and order forms due

·        Oct. 8 ~ Fall Festival (5-8 pm on the elementary playground)

·        Oct. 12 ~ Book Orders Due

·        Oct. 14 ~ End of 1^st Quarter & End of 1^st Quarter Reading Journey  

·        Oct. 17 ~ Fall Break-No School

·        Oct. 18 ~ School Pictures

·        Oct. 18-20 ~ Parent/Teacher Conferences (see below for details)

·        Oct 28 ~ Halloween Party (see below for details)

1st Quarter Assessments

Next week we will begin assessing over 1^st Quarter skills.  Some of the skills we will be assessing over are letter identification, sight words, counting to 25, measurement, sorting, shapes, positional words, parts of a book, and author/illustrator.  If your child has already scored “Proficient” in an area, he/she will not be assessed over that skill again this quarter. 

Halloween Party  Our Halloween Party will be October 28th.  We will begin changing into costumes at 11:30.  Parents are welcome to help at that time.  Parents may also start setting up for the party at this time.  At 11:45 we will parade through the school in our costumes.  The party will begin after the parade, at approximately 12:00 and last until 12:30.  Please remember to send your child’s costume to school that morning!  Do not bring it with you—you never know when you might be delayed unexpectedly. *Special note about costumes—NO weapons of any kind allowed, please keep blood and gore to a minimum! If you would like to help out with the party and have not returned the form I sent home from our room mom please let me know and I will send home another one.

Reading Journey

I hope you and your child have enjoyed completing the Reading Journey.  Please return the Reading Journey activities page by Friday, October 14^th.  We will celebrate our reading journey and have a read-a-thon in our classroom the following week.  We will begin another Reading Journey very similar to this one for second quarter.  Be looking for more details to come home.  

                                   Parent-Teacher Conferences

Parent-Teacher conferences will be held October 18^th and 20^th.  All parents are expected to schedule a conference time.  You may sign-up online at:

www.SignUpGenius.com/go/30E0C45AFAB23A0FA7-fall1  I look forward to meeting with you.

Next Week:

·        Our theme will be Fall.  We will learn about informational (non-fiction) books.  

·        In math, we will continue our topic on numbers 1-5.

·        Our sight word will be “it”.

·        Our letters for the week will be “Ll” and “Kk”. 

Have a Great Weekend!!

                                  Mrs. Vaughn

The following is an email I got from Mrs. Berning.  Thanks so much for everyone who sent in canned food for the food drive!!!

I just wanted to say thank you again for all of the canned food donations that were brought in this past week.  I am so overwhelmed with the success of this project and I know that we couldn't have done it without the help of all of the homeroom teachers that encouraged kids to participate whether it was for the prizes or to help those in need. The end result was that we donated more than 4 truckloads of canned food items and one car load to FBC in Clever.  

My final tally was 2,869 items donated district-wide!  

Thank you again to everyone who participated!

Carissa

It’s time once again to support our school in an important fundraising project. Your participation is crucial to our school’s success. Will you “step up” and help make this our best year ever? Don’t forget, a percentage of each sale goes DIRECTLY to your teacher for use in the classroom!!

Otis Spunkmeyer Cookie Dough!!!! Helping is BIG TIME FUN with the deliciously awesome Otis Spunkmeyer Cookie Dough Fundraiser. A bite above the rest. Try it!

Sign-up online and Go National! 

Have out-of-town family and friends shop online at www.cherrydale.com. 

PTA Fundraiser Flyer & Cherrydale Fundraiser Flyer

Friday Note

Events of the Week:  

Math: In math, we completed our unit on measurement.  We have been using math words, such as length, longest, shortest, height, taller, capacity, weight and so on.  Ask your child to put your family members in order from tallest to shortest.

Language Workshop:  Our theme this week was Colors.  Our big book for the week was Rain.  We’ve been focusing on naming the parts of a book (front cover, back cover and title page).  We also have been learning to name the jobs of both the author (writes the words) and illustrator (draws the pictures).  Look for these assessments in your child’s folder.  As always, if he/she is not proficient in these skills, then please practice them at home because I will reassess at least one more time before the end of the quarter. 

Reading Workshop: We continued Literacy Centers this week.  I was able to meet with some small groups to work on making a color book and practicing color words.  Other students were engaged in individual and small group work on several literary skills we have learned so far.   Very proud of my class and how well they are doing with this. 

Writing Workshop:  We continued to work on the correct way to write letter of the alphabet.  We worked on correctly forming the letters Cc and Hh. The sight word we learned was “like”. 

Word Study:  We continued our letter study by learning the letters Cc and Hh.  We worked on identifying each letter, writing it correctly and saying its sound. 

Important Dates:

·         Sept. 26:  Watch DOGS Pizza Night 6:00-8:00 p.m.

·         Oct. 6:  Cox Care Mobile

·         Oct. 17:  No School

·         Oct. 18: Picture Day

      Oct. 18-20:  Parent/Teacher Conferences

      Oct 28: Halloween Party

               Our new website and mobile app are now live visit

www.cleverbluejays.org  Our Clever R-V School app is

​​available in the Apple App store and the Google Play store.

  

Assessment Pages: Please continue to watch for these to be sent home.  Look over these pages carefully.  If your child needs continued practice on a skill, please work on it at home with your child. Thanks!    

Reading Journey

I hope you are finding time each day to read with your child.  Make this a special time for you and your child and have fun!  I love hearing what your child is reading at home and the different places they are reading around the house.  When reading with your children, please encourage them to point out our sight words and letters we have learned.

The Cox Care Mobile is scheduled to be at Clever Schools on October 6, 2016.  The Care Mobile is a medical office on wheels that provides FREE services for children ages birth to 18 years.  You may call the school nurse to inquire about the services provided, to schedule an appointment and to receive the necessary paperwork.  Thank you!

Next Week:

·        Our theme will be Color Review.  We will focus on the book Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?.  We will do more work with reading the color words. 

·        In math, we will begin learning about numbers 1-5.

·        We will focus on the sight word “see”.

·        Letters for next week are Ff and Dd.

Have a Great Weekend!!

Mrs. Vaughn

MOVIE NIGHT!

“Remember the Titans”

Saturday, September 24th on the hill behind the baseball field backstop!

Admission

Boys bring a 2 liter of soda

Girls bring chips or cookies/dessert

Bring blankets and pillows, or lawn chairs for sitting in the grass

Arrive at 6:00 pm for Ultimate Frisbee, Volleyball, and Football before the movie.

Movie Starts at Dark

  Everyone is welcome!

New School Website

Just letting every know we have a new school website that can be accessed at this address http://www.clever.k12.mo.us/

There is also a mobile app that can be downloaded on the Apple App store and the Google Play store.

September 29th: Diggin Up Gold and EleMiddle Night at the Volleyball game.

  Game time:  6:00.

 September is childhood cancer awareness month, so in honor of this, we're hosting a Going Gold night on Thursday, September 29th during the High school volleyball game! We'll have food and desserts (bake sale items) and a silent auction going on in the HS commons area. We will also have a chance for you to win prizes by "buying" a VB player that night to serve for you during a heated competition in between games!  This event is in honor of Lane Mendenhall (5th grader and son of our Para and bus driver, Sam Mendenhall).  Come out and support Lane and Clever Lady Jay Volleyball.  If  you haven't been to a volleyball match yet this year, you are in for a real treat!    Preschool- 8th grade students get in FREE and parents get 1/2 price admission ($1.50 ea.)

Thursday/Friday Note :)

NO SCHOOL TOMORROW!!!

Events of the Week:

Math:  We finished up our unit on positional words and then started our unit on measurement.  We are learning to compare objects by length.  Next week we will work on comparing by height, capacity, and weight.  Your child’s positional words assessment went home yesterday.  I’m so happy with how well students did on this assessment!  If a student didn’t score proficient, we will keep working on the skill at school and I will reassess them at a later date.  Any extra practice at home is appreciated.   

Language Workshop:  This week we read several color books and began our focus on identifying colors and color words.  We read Who Said Red?, Elmer, A Color of My Own, and Emeraldalicious.   We introduced the colors red, green, blue, and brown.  We started writing in our reading logs this week.  Each day we focused on one color, drew objects that are that color, and then labeled the picture.  The students did a great job with this new activity.

Reading Workshop:  We started literacy centers this week!  I am so proud of how well students have done with this.  Since this was the first week I walked around to make sure students were on task at their center and answered any questions they had.  I was impressed at how well they were able to go to their correct center, follow expectations, and get their job done in a quiet manner.  Some of the work they do at literacy centers I check, however some of the work I have them take home without checking.  

Writing Workshop:  We have been practicing correctly forming the letters we are learning.  We are also practicing writing using whiteboards and shaving cream in the classroom :)

We have also been focusing on writing our names correctly.  *Name homework is coming home today.  Please read the directions carefully! When practicing at home, please make sure the first letter is capitalized and the rest are lowercase.   

Word Study/Content Workshop:  Our sight word for this week was “my”.  The letters “Nn” and “Pp” were our letters of the week.  We worked on identifying each letter, writing it correctly, and saying its sound.

Thank you so much to the families who came to Grandparent’s Day!  

*If you are signed up on SeeSaw you should be able to see the picture of your child with their grandparent from Grandparents Day. :)

Important Dates:

• Sept. 16:  No School (Professional development meetings for teachers)
• Sept. 19-23:  FBLA Canned Food Drive.  The class with the most donations wins a prize!  Let’s help those in need!
• Sept. 26:  Watch DOGS Pizza Night 6:00-8:00 p.m.
• Oct. 17:  No School
• Oct. 18-20:  Parent/Teacher Conferences

Sight Words

These are the sight words we have learned so far.  Your child should be able to read each of these words.  Please practice them at home with your child.   

I   is   a   the   my

Parent-Teacher Conferences

Parent-Teacher conferences will be held the week of October 18th.  I will be sending home sign-up information at a later date.  Thanks!

 

Reading Journey

I hope you are finding time each day to read with your child.  Make this a special time for you and your child and have fun!  I love hearing what your child is reading at home and the different places they are reading around the house.  When reading with your children, please encourage them to point out our sight words and letters we have learned.

Next Week:

• We will continue to learn about the color words.
• In math, we will continue our unit on measurement.
• We will learn about the letters “Cc” and “Hh”.
• Our sight word will be “like”.

Have a Great Weekend!!

Mrs. Vaughn

Friday Note 9-9

FRIDAY NOTE (9/09/2016)

Math: In math, we learned about positional words (inside, outside, above, below, behind, left, and right).

Language Workshop: This week we read The Pledge of Allegiance, learned what it meant, and learned about our flag. We also talked about our school pledge and learned about respect.

Reading Workshop:  We finished going over all rules and routines for literacy centers this week.  Next week we will begin literacy centers as a class.  Students will be actively engaged in smartboard center, writing center, art center, big book center, iPad center, reading center, bucket center, and games center while I am meeting with small groups on specific skills.  I am looking forward to this and I think the kids are too!  

Writing Workshop: This week we practiced correctly forming letters Tt and Gg.  Each day we write a daily message.  As a class we look for sight words, and the letters we are learning that week in the message. We have also introduced spacing, capital letters, and punctuation.   

Word Study: Our sight word for this week was “the”.  Students were able to engage in various Smartboard games to reinforce recognition and the sound the letters Tt and Gg make.

Sight Words

I   is   a   the

Important Dates:

• Sept. 9- Book Orders Due
• Sept. 9-Grandparents Day 2:30-4:00 *Classrooms will be open during that time as students will be asked to escort their grandparents through the building.  Weather permitting; visitors may park in the open field west of the school as parking around the building may become limited.  Visitors should enter using the K-4 office entrance or the 5-8 office entrance.  I look forward to seeing you there.
• Sept. 16- No School-Teacher Professional Development Day    

Reading Journey

 Remember to be working on the reading journey for this quarter!  You can help your child meet their reading goal by reading daily with them.  Feel free to email me pictures and we will share them during calendar time.  Thank you!

Important Information and Reminders:

• We are working on reciting our phone numbers, addresses, and birthdays.   Please practice with your child at home on these.  
• Please make sure your child eats a well-balanced breakfast to ensure that they do not become hungry before lunch time.  If your child will be eating breakfast at school, please have them here by 7:50 a.m.

Next Week:

o   We will start a unit about color words.

o   In math we will finish the unit on positional words and start measurement.

o   We will learn about the letters “Nn” and “Pp”.

o   Our sight word will be “my”.

Have a Great Weekend!!

Mrs. Vaughn

Friday Note 9-2

Math: In math, we continued to practice sorting objects.  Students participated in several class activities to practice sorting, classifying, and counting objects.  We practiced sorting objects by color, size and shape using different manipulatives.  We also learned how to make graphs.  Each student sorted their fruit snacks by color, graphed how many they had of each color, then had to determine which color they had the most of.   I am so proud of my class and the hard work they are doing each day.   

Language Workshop: This week we continued our All About Me and My Community theme.  Our focus was on families.  We read the book Families are Different and a variety of family books.  We discussed the importance of our families and discovered some similarities and differences that we have.  We realized that all families are different and special.  We talked about common physical, social and emotional needs and how these differ from wants.  We shared our family papers that we filled out and returned.  

Reading Workshop:  We continued our unit over reading routines.  This week we learned how to handle books carefully and how to pick a good reading spot.  I also began introducing literacy centers.  I introduced the procedures and routine of the smartboard center, art center, and writing center.  We will continue with this into next week.  

Writing Workshop: Our sight word for this week was “a”.  Each day we wrote a daily message.  As a class we look for sight words, capital letters, and the letters we are learning in the message. We have also introduced spacing, capital letters and when we use them in a sentence, and punctuation.   

Word Study: This week we practiced correctly forming letters Rr and Ss. Students were able to engage in various Smartboard games to reinforce recognition and the sound the letters make.    

Important Dates:

• Sept. 5- Labor Day-No School
• Sept. 8- Cox CARE Mobile
• Sept. 9- Book Orders Due
• Sept. 9-Grandparents Day 2:30-4:00 *Classrooms will be open during that time as students will be asked to escort their grandparents through the building.  Weather permitting; visitors may park in the open field west of the school as parking around the building may become limited.  Visitors should enter using the K-4 office entrance or the 5-8 office entrance.  I look forward to seeing you there.
• Sept. 16- No School-Teacher Professional Development Day    

SIGHT WORDS   

I       is      a

Reading Journey

Information is coming home today about our Reading Journey.  Be sure to work towards meeting your child’s reading goal by reading daily with them.  Feel free to email me pictures and we will share them during calendar time.  Thank you!

Important Information and Reminders:

• We are working on reciting our phone numbers, addresses, and birthdays.   Please practice with your child at home on these.  
• Please make sure your child eats a well-balanced breakfast to ensure that they do not become hungry before lunch time.  If your child will be eating breakfast at school, please have them here by 7:50 a.m.

Next Week:

• We will continue our All About Me and My Community theme by focusing on our school, community, and country.  We will learn about the Clever School pledge, the Pledge of Allegiance, and the American flag.
• In math we will learn about positional words (above, below, behind, left, right, etc.)
• We will learn about the letters “Tt” and “Gg”.
• Our sight word will be “the”.

Have a Great Weekend!!

Mrs. Vaughn