January
20, 2017
Dear Parents,
This
week we have continued discussing our unit on weather. We have been drawing the weather daily. We have also been charting the temperature
throughout the day to see how it changes over the time of a day. We also talked about weather tools and wind. We have discussed who Martin Luther King is and
talked about all the things he did. We
also discussed other famous black Americans like Rosa Parks and George
Washington Carver. In math, we reviewed adding
and subtracting, and working on decomposing numbers 6 and 7. Students should understand that the numbers 1
& 5, 2 & 4, 3 & 3, 0 & 6, make the number 6, and that 1 &
6, 2 & 5, 3 & 4, 7 & 0, make the number 7.
The kids really enjoyed our “Frozen day.” We did several activities before watching the
movie Frozen. We did a
snowman glyph, we made a snowman with marshmallows, we wrote about building a
snowman, and we learned about the states of matter – solid, liquid, gas. It was a great day!
Next Week
Theme: Weather Story: Goldilocks and
the Three Bears
Geography &
Maps Word Families: -og, -op, -ot
Nursery Rhyme: Diddle Diddle
Dumpling
- Next week
our school is participating in “The Great Kindness Challenge.” This is a week that schools are taking
to discuss and perform as many acts of kindness that you can. I will be discussing this with the kids
on Monday. There is a website you
can check out that has a checklist of acts of kindness. We hope to be able to do many acts next
week. I have picked 1 act each day
to concentrate on. We want to try
to do that act as much as possible at school and at home. Also, I thought a class project we could
do was to collect items to donate to the local animal shelter. I talked with them and they accept
donations ranging from food for the animals they rescue, beds, cleaning
supplies to clean pens like Clorox wipes or other cleaning items, monetary
donations, and anything animal related.
I would like for every student to bring in any of these items next
week. We will collect items all
week. Then Friday, the items will
be taken to the animal shelter. I
will be happy to take them, however if there is anyone who would like to
take it with their child on Friday, please let me know.
Acts of Kindness:
Monday – Pick up
trash outside
Tuesday – Smile at
people
Wednesday – Hug
your friend or sibling
Thursday – Give
someone a compliment
Friday – Say thank
you to others
Reminders
- Scholastic
orders are due on Monday January 30th. Be sure to take a look at all the great
books they have.
- We will
only check out library books when we go to library on Tuesday’s. I will only collect books on Monday’s
and Tuesday’s. She only wants to
take them on Tuesday and I do not want to keep them in the room for a long
time. So if you sent yours in this
week on a different day, I just left it in their book bag so they could
keep it until next Monday.
- If you
did not send in your homework notebook today, please send it on Monday so
the new sight/spelling words can be added.
- Be sure
to check your child’s folder for a letter about the 100th day
of school. It is coming up soon and
the kids can make a shirt for that day.
- Be sure
to check the volunteer calendar for open times. Our school will have some visitors the
following week coming to observe our school and what we are doing. Every so often you have to go through an
accreditation process. We have done
this before and this is kind of like renewing it. Anyway, they will be coming by our
classrooms on the 30th or 31st. I would really like to have 2 volunteers
for the 30th during literacy centers to allow things to run
more smoothly. Please let me know
about any days on the calendar that you can volunteer.
Dates
Monday January 23rd:
Return book-in-a-bag & Library books
Mrs.
Hodges & Mrs. Roycroft
