January 23rd Newsletter

Important Dates

January
30 – Movie Night (at Prairieview)

February
10,11,12, & 13 – Iowa Test of Basic Skills
13 – Valentine's Day Party
19 – Robert Crown Field Trip
20 – Paper making Assembly

Our 44th President
On Tuesday, the entire first grade got to watch history being made. We saw Joe Biden and Barack Obama being sworn into office. As we were watching, the children were excited to see many of the monuments in the background that we have been studying during Exploration Stations. They were able to name most of them.

Valentine's Day Party

Our Valentine's Day party will be on Friday, February 13th from 2:00-3:00. The children will pass out their Valentines before the party. Do not address the valentines, just have your child sign his/her name, this makes passing out much easier. If you signed up to help or to bring food or paper products, someone will be contacting you soon. Thanks.

Math
This week we worked on sorting objects and making graphs. We will be completing this chapter on graphs next week.

Reading
We will be reading The Sleeping Pig and What Is a Desert?

Comprehension Strategies
The children will be learning about story structure and summarizing a story. We will also talk about how to read a social studies article.

Vocabulary Words
The vocabulary words will be words that name fruits and vegetables and the following words: began, celebrate, coyote, cricket, howl, rabbit, tail, and watermelon.

Phonics Skills
Segmenting phonemes, long o (CV-CVCe) and long u (CVCe), final clusters -ft, -lk, -nt, and review of long i (CVCe).

Grammar Skills
We will work on identifying naming words for people and animals.

Spelling Words
go, bone, so, nose, home, no, also, woke, telephone, and wrote

Have a great weekend!