Week of February 6-10

DATES:

100’s day—Friday!

February 14—Valentine’s Day party in the afternoon

February 17—NO SCHOOL—teacher Professional Day

February 20—NO SCHOOL—President’s day

February 21—Ms. Thompson will not be in school

February 23—1/2 day—dismiss at 11:55

  Parent Teacher conferences

  MAY be a possible make up sledding day???

READING:

This week we are reading about the four seasons.

LETTERS:  Bb & Ll

SIGHT WORDS:  is & little

CATEGORY WORDS:  seasons

VOCABULARY:  weather, seasons, spot, climate,

BEANIE BABY STRATEGY:  Skippy the frog:

Skippy tells us to skip a word we may not be able to figure out and read on then go back and reread.

WRITING:

We are working on small moments.  This week we will work on a class story about making Stone Soup.  We also wrote about what we would do on a snow day.

MATH:

We are working on shapes—2D and 3D.

We are working on building numbers 2+4=6, 5+1=6)

We are counting to 75 by 1’s, 20 by 2’s, 100 by 5’s and 10’s.

Friday we will celebrate our 100 days of school!

SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES:

We were given an amaryllis bulb in January.  We planted it as a class and each day the leader of the day gets to water it.  It’s been amazing to watch how fast this plant grows!  Waiting for the flower to bloom!!
We also have an avocado pit we are waiting to see roots on!  It’s VERY slow!

STUDENT OF THE MONTH:  Natalia

Natalia is thoughtful, has a wild imagination.  She is an awesome friend to have!  Natalia likes pizza, chicken nuggets, eggs and salsa sopes.  Her favorite movie is Frozen and favorite book is Disney Princesses.  She wants to read big kid books with her brother and learn to tie her own shoes!

                                                    VALENTINE”S DAY PARTY:

Our party will be on February 14.  We will begin at 12:45 with passing out our Valentines, reading some books and watching a Valentine movie.  Then we have recess from 1:35-2 –at that time the 2 parent volunteers will help dish up treats and we will eat our treats after we return from recess.

The following is what some signed up to bring.  If you cannot donate to the party please let me know soon so I can make arrangements to have the items ready for the party.

24 plates—Emelia

24 small cups Nathan

Apple juice—Natalia

Apple Juice—Payton

Veggies & Dip—Bailee

Crackers & Cheese—Sophie

Finger Jello—Kaitlyn

1 bag of conversation hearts—Natalia

Parent Volunteers—Jessica O & Katiane Myers

Here is the list of children’s names for Valentine’s-try to have them write their own name and if possible their friends names!

Easton                  Abby            Brian           Payton                  Ayden

         Case            Chloe           Marie          Caleb           Taylor        

Sophie         Lyndon         Nathan        Kaitlyn                 Levi           

Tanner         Natalia                 Miguel                  RaeLynn               

Dianna         Emelia                  Bailee          Ms. Thompson

Mrs. Goodrich        Mrs. Bronkema