Week 20 - Jan 31 - Feb 4

Academic Updates
We will:
Continue to work on summarizing
Review and practice our decoding skills
Study Long U words (blue, few, new, clue, stew, etc.)
Work on elaborating when we write
Build, compare, deconstruct numbers using base 10 blocks
Introduce mapping
Explore vibrations and sound

HOMEWORK BAGS

Every Monday I will be sending home a homework bag for the week.

This is a way for your child to practice daily skills like handwriting, sentence construction

reading, sight words and math facts. For families that I conferenced with, these is a required

activity to get your child caught up. For those of you that I did not conference with this is

an optional but encouraged activity. Homework is done over the course of the week and

the bag returned on Monday. Children that have their yellow sheet complete will receive a

prize from the prize chest.

STEM

I’d be grateful for continued help growing our collection of items for STEM time:

toilet paper/paper towel tubes, egg cartons, duct tape, painter’s tape, popsicle sticks,

thin and short dowel rods, elmer’s glue, and pipe cleaners.

If you have any of these items we will put them to good use!

Valentine’s Day

Reminder: all our Valentine enjoyment will be done in-house.  Please do not send anything in.

Snacks Needed

Children are consistently forgetting to bring two snacks or they are bringing very small

snacks and are still very hungry.

I could use some donations of large bags of pretzels, goldfish and other prepackaged

items for children to have for snack.

We celebrate the 101st Day of 1st Grade in style! This day is a big deal and falls on February 15 this year.  The theme is 101 Dalmations.  We will be making dalmatian shirts with 101 spots in class. 

Please send a t-shirt with your Firstie that can be painted to school by February 11th. (Some children may forget so if you are willing to purchase a multi pack that would be great)

If you will not be able to send in a shirt, please let me know so that I can arrange for extras.

White short sleeve oversized undershirts work great.

We will enjoy reading the book 101 Dalmatians, fix 101 pieces of snack, and do loads of fun writing and math activities. 

101st Day Snack Sign Up.

Please Click Here to provide food for our 101 pieces of snack.

Planetarium

Our class will attend a show at the Upton Planetarium on Thursday, February 17. 

For children that are absent:

February Choice Board

Meet the Author of Click Clack Moo, Betsy Lewin	Read for 20 minutes	Spend some time reading some silly poems on Fizzy Fuzzy Funny
Work on Seesaw assignments	Play a board game.	Have a family member name a number.  Tell them 10 more/less and 1 more/less for each number they say.
Make a map of a room in your house and label everything in it.	Go to Wixie and make some exciting Valentines for your family!	Organize your toys or do a chore for your family.  Write about what you did.
Give this a try: Beaver Coding	Make a list of everything in your refrigerator.  Put the words in ABC order.	Write and illustrate a story.  Make the setting your home and a family member or pet the main character.
Practice addition and subtraction flashcards	Spend 15 minutes on Lexia.	Check out Math World! Choose the level you’d like to work on.