February Newsletter

Dear Parents:

It’s hard to believe that it’s already February! As you know we have started our Science building unit with Scientists in School and will continue our learning by making cabins, towers, bridges, and so much more! If you have any small styrofoam plates, tin pie plates, plastic containers, or cardboard tubes, please send them to school by February 14^th.  

This month we have started talking about the winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.  We are learning about all of the 15 events and will harness the excitement into some writing activities about TEAMWORK in the classroom.  

We also have two more big days to celebrate: The 100^th day of school and Valentines on Friday Feb. 14^th. Thank you to those who have already volunteered to help out with our stations from 8:30-9:40.  We have a combined party on Feb.14 but will open our valentine's on Feb. 13th. Thanks to our generous party snack moms! 

Random Acts of Kindness Week is Feb. 10-14^th and we will be celebrating by writing kind notes to our friends and doing kind acts for our families!  I am planning a whole week around this theme where kids will be asked to perform many acts of kindness for each other in the classroom.  We just finished reading about how to be a bucket filler and this continues along the same theme.  Our writer’s workshop focus is making connections: text to text, text to self, and text to world. We also continue punctuation, editing, poem of the week, sight words, phonics and spelling! Whew!

 

Our focus in Math will be finishing up addition and subtraction to 12( heavy on subtraction for a little longer) , maintenance of counting skills by 1,2, 5, and 10 to 20+ and starting into our geometry unit next.   We continue with problem solving, doubles, review count on and back, odd/even & fact families. 

DATES TO REMEMBER!

Feb. 3	Library day is every Monday
Feb. 4	After school skating 3:30-4:30 at Nicholas Sheran
Feb. 5	Leader in Me Assembly 12:30/Winter Walk 2:05
Feb. 6	Show and tell day is every Thursday
Feb. 7	Professional Development Day: No School for students
Feb. 12	Art mom lesson: Thank you Mrs. McClung!
Feb. 13	Spirit Assembly: WEAR RED DAY Valentine’s Day Party in afternoon/Valentine exchange See class list of names for Valentines below Spelling test will be today instead of Friday
Feb. 14	100th Day Celebration in the gym at 8:30-9:40 Classroom party 11:15-11:45
Feb.10-14	Random Acts of Kindness Week How Full is Your Bucket
Feb. 17	NO SCHOOL : FAMILY DAY
Feb. 18& 19	NO SCHOOL: FALL BREAK
Feb. 20 &21	NO SCHOOL: TEACHER CONVENTION

 

                                          

February Sight Words

Feb3-7	Feb10-14	Feb 17-21	Feb 24-28
birthday	open	No school	think
May	old	No school	thank
again	boat	No school	that
say	mom	No school	this
ate	dad	No school	they

 Thanks a bunch for returning forms already to go on the Winter Walk on Feb. 5th in the afternoon. I imagine if the weather is like today we may have to cancel--will keep you posted. Please bundle your kids really well in the event that we go.

 

and....from the Valentine's list...Summer is a girl!!!! I must have posted that late at night! YIKES!! We have 8 boys and 12 girls!  Still 20 for the total!

 

Doubles update!

I retested most of the kids today and wow! we are doubles experts! If anyone needs extra practise I will send home a sheet for you tonight!  Great job Grade Ones!