St. Giles School

St. Giles School

St. Giles School exists to foster the spiritual, intellectual, emotional, social, and physical growth of our elementary school children.

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1-22-16 Newsletter

      RECAP OF OUR WEEK & A GLIMPSE AT NEXT WEEK

A few snapshots of students working on the Daily 5 (Work on Writing, Word Work, Listening, Read to Self, Read to Someone). The Daily 5 is an important part of our daily classroom life.

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IMG_3916  Exchanging Pennies for Dimes while playing Duck         .                                                                               Duck Dime

 IMG_3918  Deciphering Tens & Ones to uncover mystery pictures

                                                                                                                                     IMG_3904   A hands-on way for kids to “see” Tens & Ones

Math – Place Value

Students have been learning about Regrouping 10 Ones to Make 1 Ten. Regrouping requires students to be able to take apart a number and write it in a new way. They’ve also had to apply this concept to answer word problems

Next Week – Creating a Table to Solve Problems, Writing Numbers to 100 in Different Ways, Identifying Numbers that are 10 More & 10 Less

Language Arts

Phonics –  Ending –es and Plural –es (fixes, wishes, etc.) and Words with r-Conrolled vowel o (more, short, etc.)

Next Week – -ed & -ing endings; r-conrolled vowel a (cart, spark, for example)

Sight Words (aka High-Frequency Words/Word Wall Words) – away, car, friends, house, our school, very

Next Week – afraid, again, few, how, read, soon

Grammar – Verbs That Do Not Add -s at the End (“pack” and “load”, for example, tell what two or more people, animals, or things do now.)

Next Week – Verbs for the present and for the past

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