Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

This week we are celebrating "Right to Read Week" and Dr. Seuss' birthday!  It is sure to be an exciting week!   Don't forget to wear your spirit wear!  Miss W. and I have been working hard to get our "special" Dr. Seuss outfits ready! 

(Yes, there is a mistake....Tell Mrs. Niezgoda the mistake and you earn a surprise!

 

Below is the link for our weekly homework.  If you don't have a printer at home, feel free to write the answers or spelling words on a sheet of paper.

Homework 2/22

 

We worked on using adjectives to describe nouns last week.  Here are a few pictures of the children making their "adjective flower."

 

I'll put up our pictures of the children who met our  STAR reading goal later this week! 

Have a wonderful week! 

What a busy week!  We finished our last set of parent teacher conferences and celebrated Valentine's Day last week.  Thank you to all the parents who took the time to come visit us at conferences. 

The children loved exchanging Valentine's with each other.  We were having so much fun that I forgot to take pictures of our celebration!

Below is the link to this week's homework.  Also, I put our new spelling words on spellingcity.com. 

Homework for Feb. 15

 

Have a great week!

Yipee!

We have so many children reaching our Dibels reading goal for January!  Dibels is an assessment where the children read for one minute.  We assess their fluency and accuracy (how many correct words they read).  Below are some of the pictures for January.  I will post more pictures later this week (We keep running out of time to take the pictures!).

Hailey

Crishaun

Hunter

Jazmine



Elijah

Madison

Sam



Sydney

Tim

Yamileth

Sierra

Anna

Brooklynn

Alicia

Ryley

Madison

Jaxon

 

This week we started learning about the reading skill of inferring!  We had a lot of fun using clues to try to describe a person!  After each group studied their clues, they presented what they found to the class!  We will continue to work on this skill throughout February.  Here are a couple of pictures from our inferring lesson. 

 

 

Happy Valentine's Week! I hope to see many of you at conferences on Tuesday! 
Mrs. Niezgoda

Pete Loves Norwood!

The afternoon class loves Pete the Cat!  This winter they also made a Pete book.  The afternoon reading class' book was modeled after Pete the Cat Rocking in My School Shoes. 

 

To make our book, we brainstormed places Pete might like in Norwood.  Then we wrote the beginning of the story and the song together.  Next, our children were paired up based on their top choices for their favorite place in Norwood.  From there the children went to work and started writing their pages.  After a first draft, the children wrote and illustrated their page on the Ipads.  This was their first experience using the Scribble Press app to write and illustrate.  I think all the children enjoyed using a new way to publish their work and are looking forward to using the app again!

 

Check out our book by clicking the link below!

Pete the Cat I love Norwood

Weekly Update!

Boy, it sure is cold out there!   I am hoping for warmer weather soon!  This week is going to be a busy week at Sharpsburg!  We will be finishing our persuasive letters so everyone can see them at conferences.  We'll also be reading a fictional story about Groundhog Day.  I am looking forward to seeing everyone at conferences.  Don't forget to let us know if you need to reschedule or can't make it! 

I wanted to remind everyone that our district purchased a license to www.raz-kids.com for the children.  This website is a great way to practice reading at home or at the public library.  Just go to the website and log-in. 
The log-in for the AM reading class is jniezgoda.
The log-in for the PM reading class is lweinheimer.
I updated the reading levels tonight and they should be just right for your child.  I recommend having your child read a book at least 3 times before taking a quiz. 

Last, but not least, I will try to start putting each week's newsletter and homework online.  If your child needs another copy of the homework, just click the link and print it off.  OR if you want to save paper, just email the homework to me at niezgoda.j@norwoodschools.org.  Remember, homework is due on Fridays!

I apologize for the image of the newsletter this week.  Apparently, my scanner at home is not the best!  I will have a better image next week.  I am also missing the "Spelling Words with Fancy Letters."
Below are links to this week's reading and spelling homework:
For some reason when you click the links, they are not showing up on google docs.  Just click the download button and they will show up (It is the down arrow).  I will try to have a better way for next week!

Newsletter 2/1/13

Pyramid Spelling Words

ABC Order

Lego Reading Comprehension and Fluency Passage

Have a great week! 
Mrs. Niezgoda

Finally! Pete the Cat!!

In late December, we started studying Pete the Cat!  Like most children, our class fell in love with Pete!  After meeting with the kindergarten and first grade teachers, we decided to write a book about Pete for the younger students in our school.  We used Pete the Cat Saves Christmas as our model to create Pete the Cat Saves Norwood.

To begin the writing process, our morning reading class brainstormed ideas for our author's message and decided we wanted to teach the kindergarteners and first graders to help each other.  The children each picked a place in our town of Norwood and came up with a problem.  In their pages for the book, Pete had to fix the problem. After writing a first draft, we started publishing each page of our story on the Ipads.  The children were so excited about writing on the Ipads!  We found that it was a little harder to illustrate on the Ipad compared to using crayons or colored pencils. 

Take a look at our first published book!   (P.S.  The afternoon class' book is almost finished too!  I hope to have it up later this week!)

Pete the Cat Saves Norwood (By Mrs. Niezgoda's Morning Reading Class)

Way to Go!

Each month we take the "Star" reading assessment on the computer.  After the assessment, the results are graphed and discussed with each child.  The purpose of the assessment is track our reading progress and make sure we are continuing to grow. 

Below are pictures of students who made our January goal on the Star assessment!  The pictures are also hung in our hallway for everyone to see what awesome readers we are!  I am so excited about all of the progress everyone is making in reading!   I look forward to sharing more successes at conferences in February. 

Jaxon

Ryley

Alicia

Brooklynn

Russell

 

 Hailey

 

 Not pictured: Jeremy, Delanie, Shelby, Jesse, Elijah

Look for more celebration pictures soon! :)