The kids totally enjoyed listening to our parent volunteers read books to them during our Book Bash on Friday! It's always nice to hear books read from different people in a different way! Thank you parents! Also, thank you to Lucas for bringing gummy worms for our "book worms" to enjoy!
Kansas Day is Jan. 29! We will have fun doing several Kansas activities! Today we read a Sunflower Life Cycle book and wrote details about it. Then, we colored a sunflower quilt piece and picked a detail we learned about and wrote it at the bottom. Later we will make another quilt square with yellow and blue squares to finish a big class quilt to hang in the hall! Look for it if you come to our Valentine's Day Party! Please send back the half sheet on where your child was born by tomorrow if you haven't! Also, make sure their name is on it!
Our Valentine's Day Party will be on Tuesday, Feb. 13, from 2:30-3:15. We will decorate Valentine sacks here at school, so you do not have to make a box at home this year! I'm going to let your child choose if they would prefer to only write their name on the cards to make it easy to drop in the sacks, or they can take the time to write the names of everyone in the class, and find the students' names to put in their sacks. Writing the names on the cards needs to be done at home before coming to school. They also need to be able to read their classmate's name on the card before coming to school that day. They need 20 cards since they don't need to count themselves. I will attach a class list for your child to copy the names if they choose. If you have any questions, please ask. I'm not sure if I explained that clearly.
Parent-Teacher Conferences are Wed. Feb. 14 after school, and Thurs. Feb. 15. I will keep you at the same time as the fall conferences unless you need to change. I have one person who needs to sign up and then I'll send it out.
This week in reading!
sight word: from
letter of the week: short e and long e
We are reading a story with a message at the end. The kids did well figuring out the message today! Always remember to ask the 5 finger retell--1. characters 2. setting 3. details from the beginning of the story 4. details from the middle of the story 5. details from the end of the story
We are also talking about making words plural by adding and "s".
If your child doesn't bring home a small reading group book this week, it's because we did not have enough time to fit it in with our short week and music programs at that time.
This week in math!
We finished up Number to 100 today with our test! The class did well on it! If it was marked wrong, we talked about it, and they corrected it.
Our next Topic in math is Understanding Addition. Hopefully next week, you will be seeing flashcards come home on Adding up to 5. We don't expect memorization at this point, but understanding the concept of addition and being able to use manipulatives to solve the problem.
It would be great if your child did go in to 1st grade knowing their addition and subtraction facts to and from 5!
We will be writing to 100 soon to understand the pattern of a 100's chart. Most got to count to 100 today and did great!
Coming up!
Jan. 29 Kansas day (We will have fun celebrating!)
Feb. 1 100's Day--Info. coming in Friday's folder!
Feb. 9 Dental screening if you opt in for your child
Feb. 13 Valentine's Day Party 2:30-3:15 (party sacks made here)
Feb. 14/15 P/T conferences
Feb. 16/19 No School
Book Bash!
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