Happy Valentine's Day!

Upcoming Dates

* Monday, February 19th – Friday, February 23rd: NO SCHOOL
Enjoy your winter recess!

* Thursday, February 22nd: Eaton Fundraiser at Chuck-E-Cheese
Come to Chuck-E-Cheese and they will donate money to Eaton!

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Dear Families,

It has been an exciting week! Our Valentine’s Day party was a wonderful success! We decorated the picture frames of our class during the party, and finished making our Valentine bags. I hope you liked our tree of hearts that we made in computer lab! The Dear Valentine poem on our bags was also the poem of the week. Have your child read it to you!
Thank you for remembering to prepare Valentine cards for everyone in the class. It was so fun to pass out cards to each other and read all the cards! We had a healthy party that included a menu of carrots, apples, juice, and one cookie. I was so touched by all the beautiful cards and presents. Thank you so much!

Here are some highlights from the week:
Star of the Week: Jaewoo
Poem of the Week: Dear Valentine
Song of the Week: The Continents and Oceans
Kindness is … celebrating special days.
Story of the Week: Giraffe’s Can’t Dance
Vocabulary of the Week: Food 5
Word Wall Words: morning, found, shout, by, out, show, climb
Next Week’s Sharing: Regular – somewhere you have traveled
(at least 4 sentences and bring a picture or drawing)
• Language Arts: Theme 6 Animal Adventures– Week 1
• Stories: The Sleeping Pig
• Word Families: -oke (poke, joke, woke)
• Sounds: long o, long u, and final clusters –ft, -lk, -nt
• Grammar: Naming Words for People and Animals

• Writing: We continued learning more about penguins this week. We did a penguin center where we learned the names of the seventeen penguin species. We wrote a piece on facts we know about penguins. Geoffrey was chosen as our Author of the Month and he shared his penguin writing at the assembly today! Great job!

• Math: Many of the students are flying through Chapter 9 on addition and subtraction facts to 20. We worked mostly on subtraction this week. We will continue with this chapter after vacation.

• Social Studies: We learned about Valentine’s Day this week, as well as President’s Day and Chinese New Year. For President’s Day, we learned about leaders in our country, especially George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. On Friday, we made dragons to celebrate Chinese New Year.

• Science: We went to Mrs. Tambe’s class to continue our unit on weather. We talked about rain and made an umbrella picture.

• Art: We are starting a new activity with Mrs. Blakeslee about Native Americans. We learned how Native Americans use pictures instead of words to tell a story. We are writing our own stories and will be drawing pictures to match our stories in the next art class.

• Music: This week, we celebrated Chinese New Years by playing drums and cymbals with Mrs. More. We also did dragon line dancing using dragon costumes and we took turns parading around the MP room! It was very exciting!

Today was Joseph’s last day in our class =( We are sad that he is moving away to Los Angeles. We will miss him very much! We hope he will be able to come back and visit us!

The weather was great this week! I hope it stays that way during our Winter recess and I hope all of you have a safe vacation next week!