Feb. news 3

Upcoming Events

·      Thursday, Feb. 21^st -half-day, 11:35 dismissal

·      Thursday, Feb. 21^st – Parent-teacher conferences as needed

·      Friday, March 1^st – Pastries with Parents (grades K & 1)

This week in class!

Language Arts:  - Essential Question –What kinds of things grown on a farm?

Letters of the week – Ff & Rr

Sight words of the week – with, he, & of

Vocabulary words – develop, amazing, content, enormous, imagine

Category words – food words

Reading –CAFÉ reader friend – Digger Dog & Repair Bear

Reader’s workshop – Monitor and fix p while you read, check for understanding. Fluency practice and practice RAZ kids (online reading program), I pick – a Good Fit book, reading to self – student selected books

Grammar – pronouns & punctuations

Writing – Journal entries, complete see/saw pattern books, handwriting practice Ff & Rr

Math: 5.8 – Teens on a Double Ten Frames (homelink)

5.9 – The Equal Symbol

5.10 – The Addition Symbol (homelink)

Social Studies: - Open Book Ch. 3

Maps – Where Are We?

1.      How can we tell where we are?

2.     What are the most important places in our school?

3.     How can we show people where we are?

Science: - completing our slides & barrier building.

Technology: - RAZ kids, hideout, Splash Math

Thank you, parents, very much for all your help with the 100^th day, Valentine’s day, and Jump Rope for Heart.  Even though we missed a lot of school we truly did have two very fun days last week!

Our Report Cards!

Our report cards, will not be finished in time by this Wed. due to so many snow days.  We will get them out to you as soon as we all have our assessments finished.  Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Please return the green conferences notes, if you received one and if you can attend our scheduled time.  If you cannot come at that time, please contact me and I can make accommodations to better fit your schedules.

Due to so many snow days, the kiddos have seemed to have really lost some basic skills.  Handwriting practice, blending CVC (consonant vowel consonant) words, and reading skills.  Please devote a few extra minutes to your kiddos to practice reading the attached CVC reading sheet and fluency practice pages.  The kiddos should be able to smoothly blend these words into what they are, not so slow like [r]….[e]….[d].  I am also sending home some of our Ee pages that we were unable to get through due to so many days off.  They do not need to be returned but it would be good practice for everyone to complete at home.  Thank you for your commitment to helping out your sweet kiddos, they have progressed so well this year and I just want to see that growth continue until the end of the year!  Again, thank you for all that you do for your little angels.

Pastries with Parents

On Friday, March 1^st, there will be Pastries with Parents in the morning.  This is taking place of Muffins with Moms & Donuts with Dads.  Parent are to enjoy treats together in the cafeteria from 7:30 – 8:10am.  Then parents are welcomed into the classrooms for fun activities that they can do together until 8:40 am. All parents are encouraged to attend.  Please return the purple slip if you plan on attending, so the cooks can prepare enough.  Looking forward to seeing all of you there.

Kindergarten Round-up

It is just around the corner for anyone looking for kindergarten next school year.  There will be two Fridays in April, where we will not be having class for our kinders due to round-up. The dates are April 12^th & April 26^th.  If you know of anyone interested in kindergarten for next school year, please have them contact MaryBeth in the elementary school office to schedule an appointment.