January
29, 2016
Dear Parents,
This
week we have finished up our unit on geography.
We finished up by discussing maps of the world that included the
continents and major oceans. We made a globe
that the kids took home and in groups we painted a map that I have put up in
the classroom. We also wrote directions on how to get from one spot to the next
on a map. Then we discussed different
landforms and physical land features. We
finished the week talking about groundhogs and Groundhog’s Day. In math, we have been learning how to tell the
time to the hour, measuring objects, and ordering objects. This week we worked on decomposing the
numbers 8 and 9.
Next Week
Theme: Dental Health Story:
Goldilocks & the Three Bears
Word Family: -ub, -ath, -ith Nursery Rhyme: Three Men in a Tub
Reminders
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I know that Valentine’s is just around the
corner. We will be having our
Valentine’s celebration on Thursday February 11th. You have received the letter about our
celebration that day and what you need to send in. Below is the schedule for that day. We do need parents to volunteer for this
day. We specifically need parents
between to help with our Valentine
crafts. You are welcome to come first
thing that morning and stay until lunch if you would like. Please let me know if you can volunteer and
what time you plan to come.
8:30-8:50 Prepare friendship snack
8:50-9:15 Story/Class Game
9:20-9:40 Eat Snack
9:40-11:10 Valentine Activities (Crafts and games)
11:10-11:30 Pass Out Valentines to friends
11:40-12:10 Lunch (McDonald’s) – Please remember if your
child would like McDonald’s it will be $4.
If your child will not be getting a Kid’s Meal from McDonald’s please
send me a quick email or note letting me know, so I will not expect money from
them.
- Please remember that when we work on math pages out
of our math book the students may not do all of the pages. We may not have time or there may just
be certain pages we are working on that week. It would be a good idea to go over any
of those pages we didn’t do. Let
your child work on them for extra practice. I do not need them returned, but I send
them so they can do extra practice at home.
- If you have not paid for our in-school Science Fun
fieldtrip, we must have the money by Monday.
- Please remember to send in water bottles each day.
- Congratulations to Bella for winning our Core Value
award this month for Creativity.
- Report cards went home today. Please keep all papers in the report
card. Just sign the cover and
return it on Monday.
- Be sure you see the at home project that is in your
child’s folder. It is not due for a
month, so they should have plenty of time to work on this Famous American
project.
Dates
Monday February 1st:
Return all books
Tuesday February 2nd: Be
sure to watch and see if the groundhog sees his shadow
Friday February 5th: Awards
– 10:30 – All students will be receiving awards
Please
remember that Kindergarten will receive awards first. Then they will
call
out first and second grade awards. Then
the awards from the specials’
teachers
(ex. PE, library, etc.) will be called out for all grades. Once awards
are
over it will be lunch time and then our regular special classes for that day.
Since
many students may leave after awards, we will not have math that
afternoon. After awards we will return to the classroom,
so if you plan to
take
your child after awards, please come to the room to pick them up and
sign
them out.
Mrs.
Hodges & Mrs. McLamb
