The Week of Feb. 28-Feb. 4

 We are already loving this warm weather today!  

Yearbook order forms are coming home today!  The online order is due Mar. 25.  If you haven't seen one from a previous year, they are very nice and colorful.    Please consider ordering one for your child as we will have a yearbook signing with all of first grade at the end of the school year.  If it doesn't work for you to get one, no worries.  Your child will have a sheet to get signatures on, and can look at a friend's yearbook that day.  

ELA/Social Studies-- I showed the class a Power Point I made of pictures from when my family visited Washington D. C.--Washington Memorial, Lincoln Memorial, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Abe Lincoln's Hat from the Am. Hist. Museum, Arlington Cemetery, and many Mount Vernon pics. Mount Vernon is still one of my favorite places to visit!  Just knowing I was in George Washington's house still amazes me! :). Unfortunately the White House was closed when we were there.  Hopefully you will be able to take your child there one day!

American Symbols!  We are going to be learning our American Symbols the next two weeks!  This week will be Mount Rushmore, the American Flag, the White House, and Statue of Liberty.  We will also listen to the "Star Spangled Banner" and what the words mean in the Pledge of Allegiance.  I just love learning about our American History!

Phonics:  Finish long ee, ea, and short ea sounds like: head, thread

We will begin Lesson 17 on Long o (o-go, oa-boat, ow-slow, o_e-those).  Much like the long e digraphs, the long o digraphs will also be tricky to know which ones to use in a word.

Suffixes:  ful-playful, less-hopeless

Please continue to read the decodable books that come home and keep these in a folder or safe place to pull out and reread throughout the year!  It will help your child's fluency!

Math this week!

Our math test will be tomorrow over 2 digit addition and subtraction.

Chapter 7 --Organize and Use Graphs will be our next chapter.

Coming up!

Mar. 9.      CCE Papa Murphy

Mar. 14-21.  Spring Break

Mar. 25.   Grade cards posted

Mar. 31.    Spring pictures

April 6.     Delayed start--School begins at 10:30

April 15/18  No School

April 21.    First Grade Program @ 6:30

April 21    1st grade music program at 6:30

Welcome Back!  It has been very different seeing some of the kids' faces!  They are all handling it well whether they are with a mask or without a mask.  We did talk about how it might be a good choice to wear a mask if they feel a cold coming on or have are having cold symptoms to help prevent the spread.  Thank you for your conversations with your child before coming to school today!  I appreciate it!

Also, thank you for making time to attend your child's conference!  We had great things to say about your child's progress so far this year!

This week in ELA/Social Studies we are learning about Abraham Lincoln, our 16th President!  It is a great time to talk about what he did for our country with February being Black History Month.  

Phonics this week!  Our next long vowel is the long e (e--we, be, me, etc.) (ee-weed, feel, see), (ea-read, seak, clean), e_e-these).  

This is a harder concept to teach since both ee, ea are found in the middle of the word mostly.

Sight words from Phonics--find, around, under, wash

Math--2 digit addition and subtraction

We began 2 digit subtraction today only subtracting tens.  We will also be revisiting fact families with the tens numbers.

20 + 30 = 50

50 - 20 = 30

George Washington    

We used our quill feathers and black ink to write like George Washington!  It was fun!

Coming up!

Feb. 23.    CCE Skating Party  and PTO night at Sombreros

Mar. 9.      CCE Papa Murphy

Mar. 14-21.  Spring Break

Mar. 25.   Grade cards posted

Mar. 31.    Spring pictures

April 6.     Delayed start--School begins at 10:30

April 15/18  No School

April 21.    First Grade Program @ 6:30

April 21    1st grade music program at 6:30

The week of Feb. 7-11

 ELA/Social Studies:

We learned a lot about Kansas History in January and are finishing up that unit this week.  Our next unit is American History with Presidents' Day coming soon.  We will learn about a President's job, why George Washington and Abraham Lincoln are important to our country, what famous presidents are on our coins, what our country's symbols are, and much more!  

Guest teacher:

Did your child tell you about our guest teacher we had here Friday morning?  My niece, Ella Scott, is a senior at Tonganoxie High School, and would like to be an art teacher.  She wanted to come in and teach an art lesson to my class.  They had so much fun with coloring hearts with markers.  Ella sprayed them with water so the colors would blend together.  Then, the kids added a black border and glued them onto colored paper.  They all turned out so colorful!  See the picture below!  We will finish the project by writing an "I Love" journal to add to it!  

Math:

We took our chapter 5 math test, but I will keep them to show you at conferences.  Today we began chapter 6 on Two Digit addition and subtraction.  

Sight words:

Thank you for continuing to practice the sight words with your child.  I am definitely seeing improvement in all of the kids' oral reading. 

Parent Conference Sign-up!  If you haven't had a chance to sign up for your child's parent conference please do so here. 

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F054AAAAF283-winter1

Valentine Heart Art!  (so cute)

Coming up!

Feb. 14.    Valentine's Party. 3-3:30. Bring 22 Valentines with only From:  your child's name on them.  Decorate a box or bag at home to put Valentines in and bring it to school on Feb. 14!

Feb. 16.    1/2 day school/Parent-Teacher conferences 

Feb. 17.     All day Parent-Teacher conferences

Feb. 18-Feb. 21.   No School

Feb. 23.    CCE Skating Party  and PTO night at Sombreros

April 21    1st grade music program at 6:30