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 14th.
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 100th day of school and Valentines
on Friday Feb. 14th. 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. 10-14th 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!
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Feb. 3
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Library
day is every Monday
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Feb. 4
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After
school skating 3:30-4:30 at Nicholas Sheran
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Feb.
5
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Leader
in Me Assembly 12:30/Winter Walk 2:05
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Feb.
6
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Show
and tell day is every Thursday
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Feb.
7
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Professional
Development Day: No School for students
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Feb.
12
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Art
mom lesson: Thank you Mrs. McClung!
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Feb.
13
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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
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Feb.
14
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100th
Day Celebration in the gym at 8:30-9:40
Classroom
party 11:15-11:45
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Feb.10-14
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Random Acts of Kindness Week
How
Full is Your Bucket
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Feb. 17
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NO SCHOOL : FAMILY DAY
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Feb. 18& 19
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NO SCHOOL: FALL BREAK
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Feb. 20 &21
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NO SCHOOL: TEACHER CONVENTION
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February Sight Words
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Feb3-7
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Feb10-14
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Feb
17-21
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Feb
24-28
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birthday
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open
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No school
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think
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May
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old
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No school
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thank
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again
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boat
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No school
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that
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say
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mom
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No school
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this
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ate
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dad
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No school
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they
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