News From Room 103 News From Room 103 January 12, 2009 Mr. Curry’s Class Mr. Curry’s Class Each week, I will introduce two word wall words from the District 186 Word Wall List. These are words that we expect children to learn by sight in order to help them become more fluent readers. Remember- To help your child learn these words have them: 1. Say the word 2. Spell the word 3. Say the word again 4. Use it in a sentence. Word Station Town Hall News Wants and Needs This week, our classroom focused on wants and needs. This is the first time I have covered this topic in my class, so I wasn’t real sure that the children would take to the concept. We started out our discussions with the word “needs”. We defined “needs” as meaning anything that we need to be alive. During our discussion, we made a word web. The word web will help remind us in the future what a “need” is. Though I wasn’t expecting it, we ended up adding “love” to our needs Words so far: the, can, my, you, see, is, like, and, play, we , at, go, run, to, have, how, on, up ,went, got, but, want & need. New words for this week: here and long list. I found that to be very insightful and cute! (continued on back) Who had a good week last week? These students did! Kaitlyn Barr Jameritt Brown Joshua Hickman Cami Nicolletta Collin Skinner David Smith Ciera Sneyd Liz Stauter Cotton Thomas Brandon Warmoth John Williams Jalee Winters These students earned a prize from the treasure chest!

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News From Room 103News From Room 103

January 12, 2009

Mr. Curry’s ClassMr. Curry’s Class

Each week, I will introduce two word wall words from the District 186 Word Wall List. These are words that we expect children to learn by sight in order to help them become more fluent readers.

Remember- To help your child learn these words have them: 1. Say the word 2. Spell the word 3. Say the word again 4. Use it in a sentence.

Word Station

Town Hall News Wants and Needs

This week, our classroom focused on wants and needs. This is the first time I have covered this topic in my class, so I wasn’t real sure that the children would take to the concept.

We started out our discussions with the word “needs”. We defined “needs” as meaning anything that we need to be alive. During our discussion, we made a word web. The word web will help remind us in the future what a “need” is. Though I wasn’t expecting it, we ended up adding “love” to our needs

Words so far: the, can, my, you, see, is, like, and, play, we , at, go, run, to, have, how, on, up ,went, got, but, want & need.

New words for this week: here and long

New word for this week:

list. I found that to be very insightful and cute!

(continued on back)

Who had a good week last week? These students did! Kaitlyn Barr Jameritt Brown Joshua Hickman Cami Nicolletta Collin Skinner David Smith Ciera Sneyd Liz Stauter Cotton Thomas Brandon Warmoth John Williams Jalee Winters These students earned a prize from the treasure chest!

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We then focused on “wants”. These were much easier to define by thinking to ourselves, “Do we need it to live?” when we thought of something. We also discussed how we can save money to get the things we want.

Next week we will talk about fairness, unity and peacefully working out problems as we focus on the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr..

Wants and Needs (cont.)

DATES TO REMEMBER

Butler School 1701 S. MacArthur Springfield, IL 62704 Phone: 217-525-3201 Best Times to Contact Mr. Curry 8:00-8:55 am 12:00-12:45 pm Monday-Friday E-Mail: [email protected] Working Together to Achieve Outstanding Results

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Contact Info

No School Monday, January 19th Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday

One of our classroom expectations is to respect ourselves and others while doing our work. We do the work we are capable of doing, and make sure to leave others alone so that they can do the same.