February is going to be a fabulous month as we continue to be busy learning about the following:
- The letters Vv, Ww, Xx, and Yy
- 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 to 100
- 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:
3rd: Wear red to support healthy hearts
8th: Jump Rope for Heart during PE class. Please have your child wear athletic clothing to school. Thanks for supporting Jump Rope for Heart! This is a worthy cause that the children enjoy and are good for.9th: Library
10th: Performing Arts program for the students
13th: WellStar nutrition in-school field trip. Please have your children wear their blue kindergarten t-shirts
14th: Valentines and decorated Valentine "mailbox" should be brought in (more info to come). A class list will be sent home.16th: Library
20th: Presidents' Day - no school
23rd: Library
24th: Book Buddies
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 Jim DeBetta for coming in to teach our Junior Achievement lessons this month each Friday. Ask your child about the great lessons that we have. Thank you for sending in the 100th Day of School collection, 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. Please make sure that your child knows the title and how to read the entire book before you send it back. This program encourages fluency and confidence in reading. If the book is too hard, please send it back to receive a different one.
We appreciate your support of the school's fundraisers for selling cookie dough and entertainment books.
Thank you so much for your continued support. 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. Once they learn all the sight words, they will be tested on the spelling of the sight words for enrichment.
It's great that the children are so excited about math and winning medals on www.ixl.com.This website is a great resource for improving and challenging your child's math skills.
Please consider having your child enter the Heroes Writing contest at school, which we have talked about. Thanks for being such incredible parents! Our class is so sweet and smart.
