From Mrs. Vaughn:
January 19: Liam W
January 27: Angelo M.
January 28: Isaac G.
January 29: Brooke F. and Sailor O.
MARK YOUR CALENDARS
- All Week: Soup/Canned Food Drive
- Help kick hunger by bringing in donations of soup or canned food for a local food pantry. Frenchtown will receive $1.00 per canned good donated from the Alan Shawn Feinstein Foundation and these funds will also be donated to the food pantry. Students who donate will receive a Junior Scholar Card, providing them with free admission to many popular venues, including Battleship Cove, Providence Children's Museum, Mystic Aquarium and many more!
- January 30: Super Bowl/Super Kids PBIS Celebration
- January 30: Fun Friday
COMING SOON
- February 6: 100th Day
- The children and staff will dress up like we are 100 years old to celebrate the 100th day of school.
- First Week in February-February 13: Pennies for Patients
- All classroom teachers will have collection boxes in their rooms and any donation is appreciated. Every little bit adds up!
- East Greenwich Animal Protection League Blanket Drive
REMINDER FROM MRS. CARR
Please remember to send your child with sneakers on P.E. days
IN THE CLASSROOMS
Kindergarten
Math:
- Counting to 100 and representing qualities to 20.
- Goal: RF.K.4 - With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
- Elson: Rr, rat, /r/
- Rakovic: Oo, octopus, /o/
- Fun Friday this week - please volunteer in one of of the Kindergarten classrooms if you can.
- Be on the look out for report cards!
Grade 1
Math:
- The children are learning about place value.
- They are using manipulative blocks that represent tens and ones to build numbers.
- They are working on using those manipulatives to figure out 10 more than or less than a number.
- They are also learning the terms and signs for greater than and less than.
- Parent Newsletter for Math
- The children continue to work on decoding comprehension skills in theirguided reading groups.
- We continue to work on narrative pieces.
- We will concentrate on expanding ideas and on capitalization and punctuation.
Science:
- The children have planted brassica seeds. These seeds are designed to go through the life cycle of a plant from seed to sprout, bud, plant and seed pods.
- At the end of the planting cycle, they will harvest the seeds.
- Thank you for your generous donations of stuffed animals for the childrenAfrica. We got a huge response!
- This week, we are collecting canned soups to donate to the food bank.
- On February 6th, children and staff will dress up like we are 100 years old to celebrate the 100th day of school. Please start thinking of your costumes!
Grade 2
Math:
- Students will be focusing on three-digit addition and subtraction problems. They will also be adding lists of three or four two-digit numbers. Many of these equations will be in the form of word problems.
- We can't stress the importance of practicing the addition and subtraction facts nightly. IXL should be a fun way to practice math skills.
- Students are continuing to write narrative stories and informational text. They all seem to be far more confident with their writing than they were in September!
- We will be introducing the new Solids and Liquids science unit. The unit will begin with a hands-on exploration of various solid objects. The children will learn to identify the physical properties using all of their senses (except taste!)
- Thanks to Rishi Gokhale's leadership skills, we will be starting a collection of donated items for our local east Greenwich Animal Protection League. Stay tuned for details to be sent home!
