Mega Party!!

After our Valentine's Party we were very lucky to be able to enjoy a Mega party with inflatable rides!!  The students had a BLAST!!!  Here are some pictures to enjoy!!  I tried to get as many of them as I could but we were all over the place!!  :)

Valentine's Day Party!

We had a super time at our Valentine's Day party!  We had wonderful food to eat and drink.  They even were able to take home a favor.  Then we had some time to open up our Valentine boxes!!  That was very exciting for us!  Here are some pictures of us enjoying our food!

Newsletter Information

Reminders

February 14^th – Valentine’s Day Party

February 17^th  – End of 2^nd Trimester

February 20^th– No School!

March 5^th  – 2 Hour Late Start

March 12^th – 16^th – Spring Break

Tips

·      Practice writing numbers all the way to 100.

·      Have your child start spelling their word wall words.

·      Continue working on basic addition problems.

Reading/Writing

We are really getting into reading the books in our new levels.  We have worked with a lot of books that are nonfiction.  We discussed how these books give us real information.  Ask your child to tell you if their IMC book is fiction or nonfiction.  We have really been practicing our writing skills.  We have done many lessons on how to create sentences.  We are really focusing on using spaces, capital letters, and periods.  We know these are important.  Have your child do some writing at home to show you their improvements.

Math

In math we have been very busy working on shapes, 3 dimensional shapes, symmetry, fractions, and dividing objects to share.  We will be starting a new math unit on Monday with addition.  We are very excited about this new adventure!

Science/SS/Health

In Science the students have been doing experiments on wood.  They are looking at how it reacts to water and whether it floats.  In SS we have been discussing things that happened long ago.  In Health they are busy discussing Healthy habits that will make them live a long life.

Thinking Bubble!!

We have been very busy working on Metacognition and Schema in our classroom.  Metacognition is thinking about our thinking and Schema is what do you already know about what you are reading.  We made a thinking bubble to hold up and share with others what we are thinking while reading a class book.  It was a lot of fun.  Now not everyone wanted to come up and share which is just fine!!  Maybe next time you will see more friends!

Our CAFE Menu!!

We have started to add to our CAFE Menu!  This is a menu that we are continuing to add to weekly.  We are working on reading skills and then we fit them in the category that they belong in and we use them while working on our reading!  There are 4 categories that make the up the CAFE: Comprehension, Accuracy, Fluency, and Expanding Vocabulary. 

We have just started but keep on adding all of the new skills we are learning!

Our Snowflakes!!

We spent some time in January writing about snowflakes, reading about them, and even hoping for them to finally fly.  They sure did for a couple days!!  Then we decided we would make our own.  We discussed how snowflakes are all different and then we made them and were really surprised how our snowflakes ALL turned out different!  It was a fun and messy time!!  :)

Newsletter Information

Reminders

January 16^th- No School

January 23^rd – Late Start

February 6^th – Late Start

February 14^th – Valentine’s Day

February 17^th – End of 2^nd Tri

Parent Tips

·      Have your child sequence the numbers to 30. 

·      Work on counting to 100.

·      Practice our Kindergarten Word Wall Words.

·      Have your child start writing sentences.

Reading

We have finished up working with PALS; which is our Peer Assisted Learning System that we used August thru December.  The students have been partnering up and working on sounds, words, and reading skills.  They were very excited about the work we did.  Also we are continuing to work on our Kindergarten words and reading skills. 

Math

We have been very busy working on time in our math unit.  We started out working on the days of the week, months, and seasons.  Then we moved to the actual telling of time to the hour.  This was a lot of fun!  They are very excited to tell you the time.  Ask them some time problems!

Science/SS

In Science the students have been working on trees again.  They are starting to prepare for some experiments.  In Social Studies we have been busy talking about the Earth and our land formations.  This led us into the discussion of a globe.  We loved to see the globe and work with it.