Progress Report

Due to our 3 snow days after Christmas break, progress reports have been moved till next week.  Please be on the lookout for them in your child's folder.  If you have any questions or concerns about your child's scores please feel free to contact me to set up a meeting.

Math!!

Adding UP!!

This week we reviewed our 1st trimester reading goals.  It was so exciting for students to see how they had met these goals!  Since we had finished that goal, it was time for us to start a new goal!  Yesterday we wrote our goals around our fluency of addition math facts.  Each child chose whether to either have a goal around their 30 second plus tests or around their 2 minute mad minute addition test.  By the end of the school year students will be required to pass a timed addition and subtraction test that included a combination of facts within 10.  You may have noticed a goal paper go home yesterday about this.  Students not only came up with their own goals, but they also came up with the best way for their parents to help them with this goal.

Here are some ways to help your child at home with math facts:

1. http://xtramath.org/

2. Addition top-it (use regular playing cards, flip over 2 cards and add them together, and the person with the highest value wins)

3.  Flash Cards

4.  Practice timed tests

5. Bump game - can be printed from this website
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Addition-Bump-Games-Freebie-828847

Money, Money, Money!

Starting next week we will be starting to learn about money.  Our goal from now until the end of the year is to learn about the penny, nickel, and dime.  Also, we will be learning how to count the different combinations of these coins.  I have found that students learn these skills best when they are using and playing with real coins.  I will be teaching them a number or games that they will also be able to play with you at home.  In order to best teach the topic of money I will need your help.  If you could please send your child into school with 20 pennies, 10 dimes, and 10 nickels next week that would be greatly appreciated.  They will then be ready to play these games that will help them to learn the skills of counting and exchanging money.  I will have them bring this money back home at the end of the school year.

Math Homework oopsie!!

Dear Family,
I sent home a notice today about the topic 5 math assessment.  On the top portion I marked each of the questions that your child had difficulties with.  On the bottom portion I indicated what homework was missing.  Due to Mrs. Scorza and I team teaching, she graciously shared this document with me.  I misunderstood how the bottom portion was to be marked.  I thought it was the same, in that if it was marked it was missing.  So, please look at the marks on the homework section as pieces of work that I have not received, and not as work that they have turned in.  If your child has no marks, I have all of their homework!  I am sorry for the misunderstanding, and I hope that this clarifies the confusion I have caused.

Mrs. Saunders

Opening Ceremonies!

Yesterday Learning Lane kicked off its Olympic studies!  We all met as a community to discuss what we would be doing over the next month on our early release days.  During this time we also did an introduction to the Olympic games.  We watched a slide show of the olympic torches travels, listened to the Olympic song, saw where Sochi, Russia is on a map, and watched some past opening ceremony clips.

Also, during this time Mrs. Flanagin shared with us about her Olympic torch carrying experience.  She answered questions, and also shared about the history of the Olympics.  At the end, we were able to experience our own torch lighting.  Here are some pictures that highlight our opening ceremony at Learning Lane!

Mrs. Scorza sharing some Olympic background information

Mrs. Flanagin wearing her official Olympic jacket and talking about Olympic reading on Learning Lane and the history of the Olympics

Mrs. Conley waiting to light the cauldron after all the students passed it down the hall

Let the games begin!!

U.S.A   U.S.A  U.S.A

Dear families,

    The Olympics are just around the corner and we are gearing up for it in Learning Lane!  We have several special events planned for your child and wanted to share the excitement with you.

     *Opening Ceremony-Children are encouraged to wear read, white, and blue on Monday, January 13th.  We will come together as a community to kick off the learning!  We will show the children a torch, a podium, listen to the Olympic song and our national anthem.

     *Weekly Lessons and Crafts- Each early release Monday, we will introduce children to an Olympic athlete.  They will receive a short non fiction piece about a selected athlete.  After it is read as a class, children will see a short video clip of the event that the athlete participates in.  Last, children will complete an Olympic related craft activity.

     *Olympic Reading- Children will be competing as a class to earn gold medals' in reading.  We are asking children to keep track of their reading (reading to someone or someone reading to them) at home in increments of 10 minutes.  For each 10 minutes that you read, s/he will earn a tally mark in the classroom.  For each 100 minutes that your child reads, s/he will earn a token in the classroom.  When the class has reached 1,000 tally marks, they will earn a medal on our graph in the hallway.

     *Geography/Current Events- We will be posting a map of the United States in the hallway.  Please encourage your child to look for articles on Olympic athletes on line or in the newspaper.  Clip the articles and send them into school.  The article will be placed near the map and a string will link the article to the athletes home state!

      *Olympic- At this time, we are still in the initial planning phase, but we are hoping to hold our own Learning Lane Olympics on the last early release day.  We are looking into kid friendly competitions for everyone to participate in!  Volunteers for this day would be welcomed!!!

We hope that your child will enjoy these special activities, we are certainly having fun planning them!  Please call or email us here at school if you have any questions!

Mrs. Flanagin

Ms. Johnson

Mrs. Saunders

Mrs. Scorza

Mrs. Shanks

Ms. Shea