Week of February 20-23

February 23:  Dentist visit

MARCH:  Reading month—STEM theme

March 1:  Reading month kick off:  Kaboomistry at 1:15 in the auditorium

March 2:  Career day, dress up as your favorite career or profession

STUDENT OF THE WEEK:

Zimmie

Zimmie’s favorite color is purple. She has two cats, Lilli and Pablo.  Zimmie loves stickers!  Zimmie likes to eat cookies and raspberries.  Zimmie’s goals are football and basketball.  Her favorite movie is Trolls.

READING:

We are reading a story called Zoo Borns.  It is about baby animals.  The children will be learning to use words to describe how they are the same and different.

VOCABULARY:  appearance & behavior

CATEGORY WORDS:  animal parts

SIGHT WORDS:  for & have

LETTER:  Uu

WRITING:

We will continue to work on our small moment story as well as write in our journals daily.

MATH:

We are working on 3D shapes.  They learned that an ellipsoid is like an egg, a rectangular prism is the shape of our refrigerators.  Have they asked you if you have an ellipsoid in your rectangular prism?  J   We will also be learning how to do addition, compare lengths and build teen numbers.

SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES:

We are learning how to eat good food and take good care of our teeth by brushing and flossing at least two times a day!

READING MONTH is March.  We will be doing activities around fairy tales and Enchanting Engineering.  You will be getting a handout with all the activities listed for the month!  Next Thursday the children can bring in a small stuffed animal to keep in their book box for the month of March.  We will take time and read with our stuffed animal.  Also if you have safety goggles and keep in their book box or you are able to purchase a pair from the school for $1.  We will wear our safety goggles like scientists do while we read!