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Calendar
Reminders:
March 6-Staff Development Day. Dismissal at 12 Noon for Students.
March 7-10-Grades 3 & 4 NYS Math Assessment.
March 8-Report Card Distributed.
March 22-Superintendent’s Conference Day. No school
for Students.
April 6-District-wide Science Fair
Notes from Mr. Kent:
Here are some tips and reminders about becoming a partner
with our school in teaching your child. You can work along
with us to spark curiosity, energy, and enthusiasm for Reading.
Here are some tips:
Read to your child often. Make a pleasant experience of the
event, making sure the session is relaxed and unhurried. Let
your child choose a favorite story. Whenever possible, you
can share the reading; have your child read a page and you
read a page. During the read, stop and ask your child to predict
what will happen next. This will encourage memory skill and
reinforces the material in the text.
Besides regular children’s materials, read aloud from
ordinary books, magazines, newspapers, and advertisements.
Your child will begin to recognize the fact the printed word
is part of everyday life that conveys useful, interesting
and amusing information. Establish the idea that reading is
an enjoyable and rewarding activity.
Introduce your child to the wonders of the public library
or a bookstore. During trips to the library and bookstore,
browse with your child answering questions about various books
and other printed materials. Allow your child to have a library
card and encourage frequent use of the public library.
If at any age your child seems turned off by
reading, don’t make an issue of it. Try leaving “appealing”
books around-books you have or find about subjects that interest
your child.
We look forward to continuing to provide the support and care
that our students need in order to be successful in the future!
I hope you enjoyed your Mid-Winter break!
Kindergarten News:
The kindergarteners have been making amazing progress! We
have practically mastered the first and second subsets in
Phono-Graphix and will be moving on to the third soon! We
have been word mapping and reading short stories diligently.We
are also beginning to write simple sentences, focusing on
finger spacing and punctuation. We are all doing a beautiful
job!We have also finished Units 1 and 2 of our Science 21
program, mainly dealing with the five senses. We will now
begin Unit 3, Living and Non-living Things. We truly enjoy
this subject! Our Everyday Math program has also been very
enjoyable for us. We are learning new games and quicker ways
to count: by 2’s and 5’s.
We are now looking forward to improving our reading comprehension
through reading workshops, and of course, the warm Spring
weather!
Pre-first News:
Room 14 has had lots of fun reading and learning about things
associated with winter and cold weather. We began with an
author study of Jan Brett and enjoyed many of her wonderful
storybooks-The Hat, The Mitten, etc. We read stories about
snow, snowmen and of course our little feather friend-the
penguin. We have also spent a lot of time learning about famous
Americans and the impact they have had on society and our
own lives. Our Phono-graphix study has brought us far in our
reading and writing skills. We are now building and reading
many 4 sound words. We are so proud! Our reading stamina continues
to improve daily.
First Grade News:
During Reader’s Workshop, we are all exploring non-fiction
literature. Mrs. Olsen assisted us during our library class
to sign out a “just right” non-fiction book. We
are also learning about the “elements” of non-fiction.
We are especially enjoying the experience of reading to learn
instead of just learning to read! On our 100th day of school,
we completed various math activities. If you have a chance,
stop by the cafeteria hallway to view all of the various 100th
day challenges that are displayed there.
The Riverhead School District’s Science Fair is fast
approaching. We have been busy learning about the steps of
the scientific process in preparation for our own classroom
experiments.
Second Grade News:
The second grades are busy learning about fractions. We are
also hard at work to finish our chapter books for our February
Book-It assignment. We will use this chapter book to do a
book report
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We are excited to be having a play for Black History Month.
We are learning our parts and songs.
Some Riverhead High School students came to our school
to teach us about our community using the Junior Achievement
program. We enjoyed making paper donuts on an assembly line.
Third Grade News:
The third graders continue to learn about communities around
the world. We have completed our exploration of Egypt and
are traveling our way through China. The Flat Stanleys made
by the students and sent out around the world have been coming
back to our school with many fascinating stories to tell.
 Next
time you are in Aquebogue School, check out the bulletin boards
outside the third grade classrooms to see just how many places
our Flat Stanleys have been!
In Science, we have concluded our investigation of electricity
through literature, demonstrations and experiments. It was
absolutely “electrifying”! In Math, in addition
to our Everyday Math lessons, we have been reviewing for the
upcoming New York State Math Assessment, which will be administered
during the second week in March. We are working on strategies
to help the students achieve success on that exam. Thank you
for your support at home. During our Reader’s Workshop,
our students are learning what it is like to be authors and
illustrators while creating their very own non-fiction books.
Check out their published works which will soon be displayed
in our school library. Happy Reading!
Fourth Grade News:
The fourth grade students completed the E.L.A. in January.
They were treated to an ice cream party to celebrate their
hard work practicing for the test.
Now the focus has shifted to the New York State Mathematics
Assessment to be given the second week in March. Students
have been measuring, calculating, and formulating answers
to test preparation questions.
Reading and social studies lessons continue through the classrooms.
Daily mini-lessons are directing students through a variety
of genres with activities that promote independent reading.
The fourth grade wing is engaged in reading after lunch until
early afternoon. Our lobby exhibits a beautiful display of
Colonial projects created by several fourth grade students.
Writing is a consistent part of fourth grade. Many activities
created by students grace the fourth grade wing displaying
their talents. In addition, letters were written and sent
to the soldiers in Iraq.
 The
hundredth day of school was on February 14, 2006. The fourth
grade activities involved creating a list of 100 acronyms,
polling and graphing 100 people about their favorite Riverhead
restaurant, locating 100 cities on maps of New York State,
listing 100 facts about Riverhead, and writing 100 math equations.
In March, all of the fourth graders will visit the Brookhaven
National Laboratory Museum. The activities are hands-on and
are correlated to meet the New York State Science Standards.
Students will be preparing for another state test in Science
to be administered in April.
News from the Library:
Kudos to Rooms 10 and 11 for their outstanding book sharing
projects! They have encouraged other students to read with
their enthusiasm. March 2 is Read Across America Day.
In celebration, we will kick off our World Book Reading Program.
Information detailing this program will be sent home
at that time.
Bits and Bytes from the Computer Lab:
 Kindergarteners
have been practicing their reading skills with the Internet
program Learning to Read at Starfall, that takes them through
the ABC’s with sounds and symbols to simple stories.
There are many ways to “play” with the letters
and stories. You can also get this at home by typing http://www.starfall.com
into your address bar.
Pre-first and first graders have also been working on Starfall,
working their way through the stories and activities.
Second graders have been honing their research and fact-finding
skills using Enchanted Learning on the Internet. When they
have gathered the necessary information about their animal
or dinosaur, they will be working on their Inspiration computer
presentation to organize it. Inspiration is a program that
would make any college student’s work a lot easier.
With a simple click of a button, you can turn your Inspiration
presentation into an outline! Writing a term paper was never
made easier!
Third graders are working on their editing skills correcting
passages from the book, Butterfly House by Eve Bunting. The
passages are filled with errors such as improper spacing,
spelling and grammatical errors, and punctuation. Third graders
are still continuing with their world travels during their
social studies computer time with the program Many Places,
Friendly Faces.
Fourth graders are finishing up their research on the explorers
that helped to create and change our history in New York State.
They also learned how to copy and paste a picture of their
explorer from the Internet to their Microsoft Word Document.
Come and take a look at all their hard work in the hallway
outside of the Computer Lab. In celebration of Black History
Month, some of the classes have viewed and answered questions
from a power point presentation showcasing 10 famous African-Americans.
We also included Riverhead’s own home-town hero, PFC
Garfield Langhorn.
It is time to register all five year olds for the
Kindergarten 2006-2007 school year. Your child must be five
years of age on or before December 1, 2006. To register your
child you must provide proof of residency, your identification,
your child’s birth certificate, and social security
card. Please contact Pupil Personnel Services at 369-6800
to register.
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