Weekly Updates

Week of September 9, 2024

This week in In Focus, we will be learning about different ways to calm our brains. Below is a recap of the parts of the brain and then different techniques that can be used to calm the brain 🙂

Parts of the Brain and Their Roles

Ways to Calm Our Brain

Click on the images to get to a video to practice

The Body Scanner (body scan practice to calm the brain)

Mindful Breathing Exercise

Mindfulness Makes me Stronger Read Aloud

A Little Calm Spot Read Aloud

Reading

In FUNdations this week we will continue our Unit 2 work on tapping out and sounding out then blending C-V-C words on on our fingers. Below is a picture of how we will do it, but ask your kiddo to show you when they practice at home 🙂 We also discuss which letters are vowels and if they are the long or short sounds. We talk about how the long vowel says its name 🙂

Prior Resources for FUNdations

FUNdaitons Letter Formation Poster FUNdations Letter Sounds Chart

* For letter formation, we emphasize the "sky line (top) plane line (middle) grass line (bottom), and the worm line (below the bottom line). We also emphasize making sure that we form our letters going from top to bottom.

* For the letter sounds chart, we put our finger on the letter and say its name followed by the name of the picture and then the sound the letter makes. Example: "A, apple /a/."

* It is very important to get our letter names and sounds down so that as we progress as readers we have no gaps in our phonic and phonemic awareness skills. In the classroom, I will meet your kiddo where they are at and go from there to make sure they are getting what they need with this important unit of study :)

* I really enjoyed reading with all of the kiddos last week and this week we will do the same! We will do individual reading and small gorup reading this week!

Below are OPTIONAL Learning Links

Reading Strategies Posters
CVC word games

Monster Mansion Match: Matching Letter Names and Sounds

Letter sounds and phonics games

Roy The Zebra CVC Game

Writing

This is an example of our writing last week! It is a three-day process broken down like this:

We brainstorm ideas on a topic and create a circle map together. This is also the day when the kiddos help me arrange our circle map information into our tree map. This is a TEAM LIFT DAY!
This is the day when the kiddos use ONLY the TREE MAP display to tap out and write sentences.
This is our BIG LIFT day! The kiddos will use only the circle map a blank tree map, and a visual with our connecting words to transfer information from the circle map to the tree map and then tap out and write their sentences.

Math

Topic 2: Adding and Subtracting fluently within 20

Review comes home Monday, Test is WEDNESDAY! YOU GOT THIS!!!

Topic 3 Home Letter

VOCAB:

Open Number Line

Doubles Plus

Make 10

Topic 2 Home Letter

VOCAB:

Number line

Doubles fact

Near doubles fact

Count back

OPTIONAL RESOURCES FOR HOME:

Doubles Song Video WARNING! May get stuck in your head 😂

Near Doubles Video

Doubles Online Games

Doubles and Near Doubles Online Games

PBL

We Have Pack PRIDE!!!

We will wrap up our PBL this week! We will be showing off the PR posters we created in a Gallery Walk on Thursday Morning! I will share pictures! Over the last few weeks, we spent a good deal of time going over the different characteristics of Pack PRIDE :) When we show these qualities, we MIGHT get a certificate to bring home and show you! If we show Pack PRIDE in a BIG way, we get a Pack Pride Penny from the office! We earn pennies for a class celebration and once we get to 100 pennies! If your kiddo comes home with one, take the time to ask them why they got it :) Ask them what they did and how that made them one of the following traits:

Polite

Responsibility

Integrity

Determination

Empathy

This week we will be wrapping up our PR for the school to show everyone who comes in the building what Pack PRIDE is. We will be using our Write from the Beginning process to create a Timber Wolf Poster to display all over the school tht shows our collaboration and teamwork on being able to identify characteristics needed to complete this project.

Below are OPTIONAL Learning Links

A Little Calm Spot Read Aloud

I am Calm Read Aloud

Find Your Calm Read Aloud

The Power of YET Read Aloud

The Magical Yet Read Aloud

Giraffes Can't Dance Read Aloud

FYI

5th Grade kickball September 12, 2024 (4:00-6:00)

NO SCHOOL: Teacher Professional Development September 20, 2024

In compliance with Titles VI & VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008, and Colorado law, the Douglas County School District RE-1 does not unlawfully discriminate against otherwise qualified students, employees, applicants for employment, or members of the public on the basis of disability, race, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, religion, ancestry, or need for special education services. Discrimination against employees and applicants for employment based on age, genetic information, and conditions related to pregnancy or childbirth is also prohibited in accordance with state and/or federal law. Complaint procedures have been established for students, parents, employees, and members of the public. The School District's Compliance Officer and Title IX Coordinator to address complaints alleging sexual harassment under Title IX is Aaron Henderson, 620 Wilcox Street, Castle Rock, Colorado, [email protected], 303-387-0127.

Outside Agencies

Complaints regarding violations of Title VI, (race, national origin), Title IX (sex, gender), Section 504/ADA (handicap or disability), may be filed directly with the Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education, 1244 North Speer Blvd., Suite 310, Denver, CO 80204. Complaints regarding violations of Title VII (employment) and the ADEA (prohibiting age discrimination in employment) may be filed directly with the Federal Office of Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 303 E. 17th Ave., Suite 510, Denver, CO 80202, or the Colorado Civil Rights Commission, 1560 Broadway, Suite 1050, Denver, CO 80202.

NOTICE OF DESTRUCTION OF SPECIAL EDUCATION RECORDS

Special Education records which have been collected by Douglas County School District related to the identification, evaluation, educational placement, or the provision of special education in the district, must be maintained under state and federal laws for the period of five (5) years after special education services have ended for the student. Special education services end when the student is no longer eligible for services, graduates, or completes his/her educational program at age 21, or moves from the district. This notification is to inform parents/guardians and former students of Douglas County School District's intent to destroy the special education records of students who exited special education services as of June 30, 2016. These records will be destroyed in accordance with state law unless the parent/guardian or eligible (adult) student notifies the school district otherwise. After five years, the records are no longer useful to the district, but may be useful to the parent/guardian or former student in applying for social security benefits, rehabilitation services, college entrance, etc. The parent/guardian or eligible (adult) student may request a copy of the records by requesting the records at this link ( Douglas County School District Transcripts and Records Requests ).

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