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Welcome to room 1-B at Spann Elementary. I am excited to be your child's teacher this year and look forward to communicating with you. I hope you browse the website and check out our classroom and read about our class! 

Below is a form that I would like you to complete before the new school year begins. This will give me important information that I can use throughout the year. Thank you!

Weekly News

This week is more like a normal week except that Wednesday is an early release day. Students will be dismissed at 11am. We will also go to library Thursday morning at 8am. Everything we are doing is in this week's newsletter that went home. Click on the link below to grab this week's newsletter:

Newsletter for the week of September 22nd

Homework for the Week

In case your child leaves their math homework at school you can click on the links below to download another copy. Math homework for 9/24 is going to be an online interactive game that works on comparing numbers; a skill we will be working on all week. If you do not have internet access I can send home a worksheet. The game is called Raceway Number Values. You can click on the link to go to the game. This game allows students to practice comparing numbers with the greater than < and less than > symbols.

The homework this week for math cannot be placed online due to copyright. I can only provide a paper copy to you. Please let me know if you need another copy of the math homework on these days.


In addition to learning how to compare numbers students will also learn how to write numbers in expanded form. The following video explains what exactly expanded form is. If your child gets confused with this skill in their homework you can have them watch this video.

Spelling for the Week

Our spelling words this week focus on the phonemes or, sh, and ay. Five words will be introduced each day up until Wednesday. Extra credit words will be introduced during our small group time throughout the week. 

I hope you have a great week. Check back soon to see what we have been doing.

Math Time

For the past three weeks students have been studying how to add simple facts with two digits and with three digits. This was mainly a review for many kids however, some of the strategies that were taught were new. From there we moved on to fact families last week. With a fact family students have to identify the two parts and the whole of each fact family. Students worked together in groups of 4-5 and solved for a fact family and then presented it to the class. This presentation provided students with an opportunity to explain their thinking which is a skill we will be working on all year. The kids loved being the teacher and explaining what they did to solve their problem. (If a kid was facing the camera I put a frog face on them just to protect their identity on the internet.)

We also got to practice solving for fact families on our white boards.

After our main math lesson students work on Math centers. This was the first week we have been working on math centers and the kids love them! There were three main games this week.

#1. Firecracker Boom
For this game two students play together. The first player picks a card. If he/she gets the answer right then they can keep the card. Then the second player goes and picks a card and if they get the problem right then he/she can keep the card. This goes on until someone pulls the Boom card. Once someone pulls the Boom card they have to put all the cards they have collected back into the main deck of cards. Whoever has the most cards at the end of the game is the winner.

#2. Collect 11
This is a two player game. Each player takes turns finding two numbers on the game board, that are next to each other, and add up to 11. Once they find a set of numbers that follows this criteria they color them in. The winner is the person who finds the last set of numbers that adds up to 11.

#3. Monkey Bump
This is a two player game. Each player will take turns rolling 2 dice. They will add the numbers on each dice together and solve how much needs to be added to this number to make 20. The player then cover this number with a colored chip. For Example: If a player rolls 2 and 5, they would cover 13. If another player has covered that number, they can ‘bump’ that counter off and put one of their own counters on it. If that number is covered by one of the player’s own counters, they can add another counter on top and then they have won that space. You can only ‘bump’ when there is only one counter on the number. The winner of the game is the first player to use all 8 of their counters.

Thanks for checking our website to see what kids have been doing. Come back soon to see what is new each week!