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Jamie Lupiani
Additional Information
Tritt PTA
Tritt Tiger Foundation
Looking ahead...
Monday, January 30....Blood Drive in the gym 1:00 - 6:00 pm
Tuesday, January 31.... It's Math Night at Walmart & Dinner at Zaxby's 5:00-8:00 p.m. THIS IS THE ONLY HOMEWORK THAT NIGHT....STOP BY AND HAVE FUN!
Wednesday, February 1 ..... All pro dad's breakfast 6:40 - 7:40. Remember you must register on line to attend. You can find the link on the Tritt home page.
Behavior Alerts
Please check your child's folder each night. If there is a behavior alert form in there, I would like you to take the time to review the highlighted behavior and discuss the matter with your child. Sign the form and return it to school the next day.
As stated on the form, receipt of 4 forms will result in a conference with parents, teacher, student and possibly administration.
Those students who do not receive a form within a two week period will be rewarded with lunch in the classroom with me! This will happen every other Friday!
Friday January 27 is our 100th day of school! Don't forget to bring in your 100th day project and the clues! I will give each student a brown lunch sack on Thursday that they can carry their filled water bottle in on Friday. We will be doing some graphing, measurement activities and categorizing with our projects.
There will also be some surprises on that day! I can't wait for Friday!
Week of January 23-27
This is anti-bullying week. Please take this opportunity to talk to your child about using kind words and actions towards others. We will be reviewing the book "How full is your bucket?" and writing about acts of kindness towards others and how others have shown acts of kindness towards us. If you ordered a bullying t-shirt, please wear it on FRIDAY!
In our academic areas....
Reading ~ Students will be reading non-fiction books and comparing the features to those of fictional stories. We will use a K-W-L chart as a graphic organizer. Students will select a book and before reading write down some information that they know about the topic. Next, students will use the table of contents and the headings (as well as their own thoughts/curiousity) to formulate questions that they would like to learn the answers to from the book. After reading, students will write some sentences about new information they learned about the topic. We will repeat this process over the next couple of weeks.
Language Arts ~ Verbs...that's whats happening (Schoolhouse Rock reference for anyone who might remember that!) We have been studying action words or verbs. We will continue our studies by creating a class book about a dog named Beasley and all the crazy things he can do. We will learn a poem about strong verbs. Another skill we will focus on is subject/verb agreement. We are also working on typing a piece of writing. Look for our new pieces in the hall soon!
Math ~ We have started our unit on fractions. We have learned to look at a set of items and describe that set with words as well as fractions. We also learned that fractions must be equal pieces. We will start using the vocabulary: halves, fourths, sixths and tenths. (I am sneeking in some time skills as well. We now have "clock buddies". The children have a clock on their desk with names written on them. The students use this clock to find their partner for various activities. I take advantage of this strategy by showing them what that time looks like on an analog clock, a digital clock and how to write that time in words.)
Health~ Please review the muscle sheet that was in your child's folder. They must know the function of the face muscles, neck muscles, arm muscles, leg muscles and heart muscle.
Science ~ We are studying the needs of animals (air, food, water and shelter). We will visit the computer lab and complete an activity on how an animal gets its air (lungs or gills). Then we will research an animal on Pebble-go and find out information that we will use to create a poster on Friday about our animal. It will show our animal in it's shelter and what food it eats.
Hat's off...NO ON...to benefit Relay For Life
We will be having a hat day on Monday, October 31. Any one who would like to particpate will need to bring in a dollar as a donation for Relay For Life. We appreciate your support for this wonderful cause.
This Thursday, our class will be attending a performance in the cafeteria for the performing arts. We will be entertained by a Latino Dance Troup. We will be wearing our blue class shirts. We will slip them on over our clothes before attending the show. If you have not returned your shirt to me, please do so by then. Thanks.
Lupiani's Leaders are Writers and Readers!
Here are the dates and times for the book fair!
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Monday, October 24 – 7:20-7:55 a.m. & 12:30-6:00 p.m. Tuesday, October 25 – 7:20-7:55 a.m. & 12:30-6:00 p.m. Wednesday, October 26- 7:20-7:55 a.m. & 12:30-4:00 p.m. Thursday, October 27 – 7:20-7:55 a.m. & 12:30-4:00 p.m. |
Math Fluency
Want to make your child a math magician? Just visit the Math Magician website to work on fluency. This wonderful tool can be accessed through the Tritt webpage. Just click on the first grade page and select the web pages on the left. You will find the link under Math. Please practice this daily. It only takes a few minutes and will provide wonderul review and reinforcement.
Start counting...and saving?
This week we will begin counting coins to fifty cents. You can practice at home by counting nickels and dimes. I will be introducing "Monster Money" to coincide with Halloween. I will send home a sheet explaining this with the students later this week. It is a technique used to help students count coins in increments of five.
