Week of Feb. 18th to 22nd

Here’s a peek at our week!

Responsive Classroom/Positive Discipline: T is for Teamwork, Zones of Regulation,
expressing ourselves using: " I feel...", Bug
and a Wish, " Please stop", counting to ten to cool down or taking a break.
Students will discuss problems and solutions, review growth mindset and what it means to
persevere and empathy.

Zoo-phonics Friends: Review... applying all long vowel sounds and rules.

Reading: Daily 5 implementation -leveled readers, sight words, letter blending, digraphs,
word work, stretch/say, sentence dictation, compare/contrast stories
and picture labeling.

Mentor Sentence:"Don't Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late" Words with Multiple Meanings

L.Arts: Reviewing rhyming, sound substitution, letter/ word manipulation, ccvc and ccvce
words, syllables, compound words and contractions

Writing Workshop:Narrative writing... students will create characters, problems and
solutions. Students will capitalize proper nouns and first letters, finger spaces
between words and add punctuation.
Social Studies: American symbols

Math: Comparing numbers, base ten counting, tally recording, graphing and solving
addition and subtraction sentences.

Homework: Practice sight words nightly and complete a square from the calendar

For access to the Digital Learning Day assignments, please click  here. Click through the slide show for assignments to be completed for kindergarten and connection classes. Activities are linked by clicking the hyperlink or picture. Teachers will be available via email for questions on Monday, February  18th. Please let me know if you have any difficulty with the link. This is new to us all and we are hoping this will be the easiest way for parents to access the assignments.  Digital Learning will be open from Monday, February 11 until Friday, February 22.

Happy learning!


On February 21st we will be taking a field trip to INK museum. We will be away from school all day. Each student is encouraged to either order a lunch or bring a sack lunch. Parents who have been volunteered trained or welcome to attend, but will need to purchase a ticket there.  Each student must have a signed permission form and ticket money to attend by Feb 14th. Please see flyer in FISH book for more details. 

RBES will focus on Random Acts of Kindness from February 8th - 22nd.  Information was sent home in Friday Folders about our Random Acts of Kindness Initiative.  Don't forget to register on the Raise Craze website with your child.  We will be tracking the total number of RAK (Random Acts of Kindness) each day and look forward to the ripple effect in the community!

Click HERE for instructions  

or

Watch this short video

We would love to highlight the amazing ways kindness is spreading.  If you would like to capture a Random Act of Kindness by picture or video, please feel free to send it to Angela Harris at aharris@oconeeschools.org.

Don’t forget to send in spare change on Fridays for Give Burns the Boot! First Grade will collect every Friday for the year to give back to Oconee Fire. First Graders will be outside during morning carpool and inside as students get off the bus. If it is raining, we will collect in the lobby as opposed to outside, so feel free to send change into the building with your child!

   Ice Cream Fridays!  

Our PTO will continue to sell ice cream each Friday for $1. Please send the money with your student in a labeled ziploc or envelope if they'd like one. :)

We will be visiting the library to check out a new book on Wednesday. Please encourage your student to put their library book back in their book bag when they are finished looking at it each night. :)

We have 10 minutes in our schedule for snack time. Each student is encouraged to bring one snack to enjoy during this time. If you would please help your student pack the item in their book bag, this will help when they are trying to locate their snack. :)

We love to celebrate birthdays! Snack time is the best time of the day to celebrate. If you would like you are welcome to send in a small treat to enjoy. Some easy things that students have enjoyed have been goody bags or a donut or a cookie. If you are thinking passing out birthday invitations at school, we ask that each student receive one. :) 


We understand that changes in transportation are necessary from time to time. If you would please, either send in a hand written note for the office or call the front office with the transportation change. We can not accept email transportation changes. Thank you for understanding. :) 


Please check their FISH book nightly for teachers notes, student work or messages from the office. All of the student work can be removed daily. Please check the student work to see if anything needs to corrected and returned. 

When money is being sent to school, it would be very helpful if it came in a ziploc or an envelope with your student's name, my name, grade level and a brief description of what the money is for. ( lunch money, book fair, ice cream, etc.) Thank you for helping us! 

Upcoming Events
Digital Learning Day -- Feb. 18th
INK field trip -- Feb. 21st 
Raise Craze-- Feb. 8th-22nd
Teacher Work Day -- Mar. 11th
Spring Pictures -- Mar. 13th
Spring book fair -- Mar. 18th to 22nd
STEAM Night at RBES -- Mar. 19th
Spring Break -- Apr. 1st to 5th