Peace-filled Week

Upcoming Dates

* Friday, January 26th: Book Orders Due
Attached to this newsletter are the Scholastic Book Orders. Please cut out the order form on the back of each catalog and list the items you would like to purchase. Write ONE check payable to Scholastic Book Clubs. The books will arrive before our February Mid-Year Recess.

* Monday, January 29th: NO SCHOOL – Staff Learning Day
Remember Monday sharers will share on Tuesday instead.

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Dear Families,
This was a short week! Here are some highlights from the week:
Star of the Week: Geoffrey
Poem of the Week: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Song of the Week: Five Senses
Kindness is … building peace around me.
Story of the Week: I Am Freedom’s Child
Vocabulary of the Week: Food 1
Word Wall: car, down, hear, hold, hurt, learn, their, walk, would

Next Week’s Sharing: Riddle – something to keep you warm
(Try to memorize words, develop at least 4 complete clues, and hide object/picture in a bag)

• Language Arts: Theme 4 All Together Now – Week 3
• Stories: Bud’s Day Out
• Word Families: -um (gum, sum) and –ump (bump, dump)
• Sounds: triple clusters and short u (bug, hut)
• Grammar: Asking sentences (How? Why? Who? What? Etc)

• Writing: This week we went to Mrs. Burgess’ class for Science circuits. We learned many facts about weather through The Magic School Bus and wrote a paragraph with three weather facts of our choice.

• Social Studies: This week, we learned mostly about Martin Luther King Jr. We read stories about his life and what he did to change unfair laws. One project we created was to show that all kinds of people can live peacefully together. Another activity was a group project where we illustrated important events in Martin Luther King Jr.’s life. We also continued our Calendar project and completed May and June. I am hoping students will be able to finish the Calendar by next week and bring it home to share with your families!

• Math: We are in Chapter 7 about money. Please review counting by 5’s and 10’s. That will make counting nickels and dimes easier! We are working on identifying and counting pennies, nickels, and dimes. This concept is best reviewed at home if you use real coins and count them.

• Computer Lab: We finished our Kidspiration projects about the seasons and months of the year. These will be used as the cover of our Calendars.

• Assembly: We had an Author of the Month assembly today. Congratulations to Lenny who wrote about four of his 2007 New Year’s Resolutions. Great Job!

Most of you are familiar with our Kindness Journals we have been writing each week (under “Classwork” in our website). Our journals are hosted by a website called www.pbwiki.com. The founders of PBwiki would like more teachers to use their site, and so they are interested in coming into our classroom to videotape some of the students during Computer center as they type their Kindness Journals and illustrate pictures. Attached to this newsletter is a letter from Ramit Sethi, one of the co-founders of the website requesting your permission to videotape your children in class. Please complete the form and return it to me on Monday in the Friday Folder. Thank you! Have an excellent weekend!