Hello Families,

I hope everyone had a great weekend! We have an exciting week planned! We have our 100th Day of School celebration, along with our Valentine's Day Party! Let's take a look...

In Language Arts, we will:
-Continue learning sight words, focusing on the words: your, him, of

-Continue to practice reading poems and identify rhyming words, sight words, beginning/middle/end sounds in words. 

-Read to understand the relationship between words and feelings.

In Science, we will: 

- Discuss how our senses can help tell us about the weather/seasons.
- Track the weather and look for patterns, similarities and differences in the weather.  

-Talk about the importance of rain.

In Writing, we will: 

-Express an opinion and respond to a prompt.

-Work on creating a persuasive Valentine's Day piece and share it with the class.

-Write about our favorite things to do in Kindergarten.

In Math, we will: 

-Identify geometric solids such as cones, cylinders, spheres and cubes.

-Discuss attributes of certain shapes.

-Begin our fact fluency pre-assessment for addition and subtraction.

Other important information: 

***Valentine's Day***

We will have our Valentines Day party on Thursday, February 12,  from 2:00-3:00 pm. We are still accepting monetary donations this week. Thank you for your contributions so far! I went to target this weekend and bought some delicious snack and goodies!  

***Book Swap***

We are having a school book swap and we need your gently used books!  If you have books that your children are no longer using, you can donate them to the book swap.  The goal of the book swap is for every child in the school to take home a book to keep.  If you have any questions about this, please let me know. 

***ABC/123 Team***

If you are a trained parent volunteer, and you would like to come in to school and help out on a regular basis, then the ABC/123 team is for you!  We have students that are working on learning their letters and numbers and we would like you to help them out.  It requires just a small amount of time (5-10 minutes) with each student, and you can work with as few or as many students from the list as you'd like.  If this is an opportunity you would like to be a part of, please email me and I will get you on the list of parents to be trained specifically for the ABC/123 Team.  If you have already talked to me about it, then someone will be contacting you soon!  

***Book Fair***

Our Technology Book Fair is in full swing! Thank you to the students, families, and staff who attended our Family Fun Night for our Technology Book Fair on Friday, Feb. 6th. Because of you, we brought in $3,148.32 in sales! Every dollar spent matters. Our goal is to have over $10,000 in sales to receive at least $2,500 toward new technology in our classrooms.Our Technology Book Fair will be open in the library from 9am-7pm Monday, Feb. 9th, Tuesday, Feb. 10th and Wednesday, Feb. 11th.Thank you in advance for supporting our school and our students! See you at the Book Fair!

 

Important Dates: 

Monday 02/09- The start of Bus Driver Appreciation Week
Tuesday 02/10- 100th Day of School

Thursday 02/12- Valentine's Day Party

Friday 02/13- No School (Curriculum Day for teachers)

Thank you for all you do to support your child's learning at home.  As always, please feel free to let me know of any questions or concerns you may have.  Have a great week!  

 Retelling a story using the 5 Finger retell (characters, setting, beginning, middle, end)

Decade Day!

Exploring with Tangrams!