Mrs. Berry's Class: August 2011

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Welcome to Curriculum Night at WE

Activities that your student might do in my room:

Reading:
Read just right books
Look at different literary genres
Talk about books they like
Work on letter sounds and the combination of letter sounds
Readers Theater
Poetry
Listening to Read
Read to others
and more..........

Math:
Activities to increase their math skills in daily stations and practice.
Use manipulatives to help them in daily math problems.
They will have study links similar to peers! -Expectation is they try to do the problems that I have marked for them.

Writing:
They will do a lot of free write to help them want to write more.
Share writing ideas.
Work on forming sentences, spaces, and paragraphs.
Create stories that are fiction and non fiction.
Work on writing the sounds they hear in the words they say.

Check out sites in each area linked on this page.

To help find just right books you can go to scholastic.com too

Middle School Students

It has been great seeing some of you walk through the halls of Waukee Elementary. Don't forget to swing by my room if you are in the building. *now in the new location by the 4th grade rooms*

I hope middle school is going great for you! Do your best and you can do great things!

Monday, August 22, 2011

This week at W.E.

Reminder that W.E. Curriculum Night - 6:00-8:00pm
6:00-6:30 – Kdg. & First Grade presentations in each classroom
6:30-7:00 - Related Arts presentation in the library
7:00-7:30 – Second & Third Grade presentations in each classroom
***7:30-8:00 – Fourth & Fifth Grade presentations in each classroom

You will go to the classroom for the presentations, but feel free to stop by the room and I would be happy to share with you some of the things we are doing in my room in addition to their regular classroom!

We have gotten started on a great note! It is going to be a wonderful year!