NEWS FROM Broadus Wood

Elementary

ROOM 10 Feb. 19th – 23rd

echidester@k12albemarle.org

Mrs. Chidester’s Classroom Newsletter

What We Did, What’s Coming Up:
Language Arts:
This week in handwriting, we did the lowercase letters l, e, and k. In Writer’s
Workshop, we read the mentor text Cookie’s Week by Cindy Ward. After, we
wrote the days of the week and brainstormed things that we do each day. We
worked on the sight words: on, we, and am.

Math:
This week in math workshop, we worked on Grab and Count 2 Handfuls, Roll & Record 3 (using a dot cube and
a number cube), and Inventory Bags. These activities are helping us work on accurately tracking bigger
numbers, 10-20. These numbers tend to be more challenging since they do not follow the same pattern as
counting 21, 22, 23 or 31, 32, 33, etc. We also have been working on story problems that have
combining/joining sums (addition) or separating/taking away sums (subtraction). We first listen to the story and
try to picture in our mind what is happening in the story, and then we find ways to solve it. Some of us chose to
draw the actual objects from the story, some used tally marks, and others used shapes to represent. After we
solved it individually, we were able to share our reasoning and solutions.

Science/Social Studies:
In our content block, we learned about George Washington – his birthday was the 22nd! We also learned he
was the 1st president in the United States of America. During Genius Hour, we experimented with water to see
which way it would flow: up or down. We worked in small groups to build our own water slides only using tape,
straws, tinfoil, and paper roll tubes. We were thankful for the warm weather to take our water play outside!

Our Schedule Next Week: Important Information:

Monday 2/19
P.E. & Mystery Reader: Mrs. Trotta (school nurse) February
2/23 – BWES Little Luau @ 6:30PM-8:00PM
Tuesday 2/20 2-26 to 3/2 – Book Fair **Family Night 3/1
P.E. & Art
March
Wednesday 2/21 3/9 – Mornings with Mrs. Morris 8:00AM-8:30AM
P.E. & Genius Hour 3/13 – PTO Meeting 7:00PM-8:30PM
3/18 – Bobcat Bowl **More info. to come
3/23 – Student Health Fair
Thursday 2/22
3/30 – Half Day for Students 7:45AM-11:30AM
Music & P.E.
3/30 – End of 3rd QTR

Friday 2/23
P.E. & Library