Long weekend!

Upcoming Dates

* Friday, January 18th: NO SCHOOL – Staff Learning Day
The teachers will be having a technology training in the morning and will be working on our writing plan for the rest of the year.

* Monday, January 21st: NO SCHOOL – Martin Luther King Jr. Day
We will be learning about Martin Luther King Jr. and his attempts for building peace in the world!

* Friday, January 25th: Snowman Family Project Due
Please decorate the snowman your child is bringing home today. Be as creative as possible and use different materials you might find around the house (but no food please!). Remember, this is a parent-child activity so have fun creating the snowman together!

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Dear Families,

This was a short week! We were happy to see the sun come out after all the rain the past few weeks! We have continued to observe the weather this week and it has been changing everyday!

Here are some highlights from the week:
Star of the Week: Yuna
Poem of the Week: Bear-ly Awake
Song of the Week: Five Senses
Kindness is … building peace around me.
Story of the Week: Little One Inch
Vocabulary of the Week: House 1
Word Wall: car, down, hear, hold, hurt, learn, their, walk, would
Next Week’s Sharing: Riddle – something to keep you warm
(at least 4 clues memorized and bring object/picture)

• Language Arts: Theme 4 Family and Friends – Week 3
• Stories: Bud’s Day Out
• Strategy and Skill Focus: Monitor/Clarify, Sequence
• Word Families: -um, -ump
• Phonemic Awareness: blending and segmenting
• Sounds: triple clusters, short u
• Grammar: Asking Sentences

• Writing: We started talking about peace this week and wrote in our Kindness Journals ways we can build peace at home, at school, or in our community.

• Math: We took our chapter test on addition and subtraction facts to 12. We have continued practicing counting dimes, nickels, and pennies. Now we are starting to show different ways to make certain amounts.

• Science: This week we read some Rain poems and made a project using words that described what rain looks or sounds like. Also, we made our own flags so that we can measure the wind! In Circuits, Mrs. Bachelor talked about winter with us and we mad a 3D snowman scene. Today we discussed the Water Cycle and learned about evaporation, condensation, and precipitation. We made a project to show the Water Cycle happening.

• Computer Lab: To continue with weather, we used Graph Club for the first time this week. We graphed our class’ favorite weather by using this software program. First we chose the different weather icons. Then we added a title and put how many students chose each icon. Finally, we chose which graphs we wanted to print!

• Social Studies: We are starting a lesson that will be incorporating a narrative writing piece using the story, The Mitten, by Jan Brett. This week we read the story and made our own mittens. Also, we began retelling the story and remembering all the details.

Thank you for participating in the coat drive. If you have any coats or jackets that you would like to donate that are still in good condition, please bring them to school by Friday. Have a wonderful weekend!