February is going to be a fabulous month as we continue to be busy learning about the following:
- The letters Ss, Uu, and Vv
- Short and long vowel sounds
- Digraphs: ch, sh, th, wh
- Writing complete sentences with the correct punctuation
- Proper spacing and letter information
- Sequencing of events
- Reading to learn information
- Writing to inform
- Characters, setting, and sequencing events in a story
- Learning the sight words for instant recall
- Skip counting by 2's, 5's and 10's
- Telling time, calendar days and months
- Ordinal numbers
- Counting and making fair trades using pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters
- Measurement
- Abraham Lincoln and George Washington
- Presidents and Presidents' Day
- Living and Non-living things
- Following directions, listening and being respectful to others
Here are some upcoming February events:
1st: Center of Puppetry Arts, "There's a Dinosaur in the Closet," field trip, (wear class shirts and bring a large snack). We will eat snack at school before we leave and will eat lunch in our room when we return to school.
Heroes Essay Contest begins through February 11th
3rd: Library
9th: Jump Rope for Heart during PE class. Please wear athletic clothing to school. Thanks for supporting Jump Rope for Heart! This is a worthy cause that the children enjoy.
10th: Library
11th: PTA Arts for Life; school play "Monster Arts in the Mtn. View Zone" at 5:45pm. At 6:30pm Spaghetti Supper to benefit Relay for Life ($4.00 per person). There will be exciting activities going on all evening until 8:30. I hope to see you all there!
11th: Book Buddies
The week of February 14th - 18th a visiting artist will teach the children during their art class.
14th: Valentines and decorated Valentine "mailbox" should be brought in.
17th: Library
21st - 25th: No school
28th: Six Flags Reading Sheets (six hours of reading) and the February Reading Logs are due. The Book-in-the-Bag reading that your children may be doing and any other reading program that they do can count for time spent reading on each of the reading sheets. The reading programs develop the children's fluency in reading.
As we are entering the second half of the year, we are encouraging the students to become more and more independent and self-sufficient with their class work and with keeping track of their belongings and responsibilities.
We appreciate Erin Caimano and Jana Trask coming in to teach our Junior Achievement lessons this month. Ask your child about the great lessons that we have. Thank you for sending in the 100th Day of School Snack and a daily snack for your child. Kudos to our Guest Readers, Snack Helpers, and Room Parents! We also are so excited about your children reading books with you at home each day.
Supplies needed to minimize germs in our class: Clorox wipes and Kleenex. Thank you.
Thank you so much for your continued support. I also appreciated your sympathy after my mom passed away recently. It's so thrilling to see your children making so much progress and enjoying learning each day. Learning all of the sight words has really helped the children become better readers, and once they learn all of the words, they may be starting the Accelerated Reader Program where they read books carefully twice and then answer comprehension questions on the computer for points to earn prizes from the media center.
