Important Dates

February
10,11,12, & 13 – Iowa Test of Basic Skills
9 - 100th day of school
13 – Valentine's Day Party -No Spelling Test
16 – No School – President's Day
19 – Robert Crown Field Trip
20 – Paper making Assembly
26 – Pictures
28 – Snowflake Ball

Exploration Stations
This week we started the unit dealing with measurement. There will be no Exploration Stations the week of February 9th due to IOWA testing or February 16th due to our trip to Robert Crown on Thursday and Paper-making on Friday. We will continue with this unit the following week.

Student of the Week
Yasmeen Obeid was our “student of the week” this week. She has done a nice job of making her poster and sharing it with the class.

Iowa Test of Basic Skills
Our class will be testing next week on Feb. 10, 11, 12, & 13 (Tues. thru Fri.) in the morning only. Please make sure your child gets plenty of rest and eats a good breakfast in the morning.

Due to our testing and Valentine's Day, we will not be having a spelling test on Fri., Feb. 13th. The test over Theme 6 – Week 3 will be given on Fri., Feb. 20th.

Math
Last week we worked on graphs in the computer lab. We are now working on probability. We have been using the terms possible, impossible, more likely, less likely, predict, & test.

Reading
Due to the IOWA test, we are doing the same reading unit for two weeks. We will continue to work on the following stories, strategies and words during the weeks of Feb. 9th & Feb. 17th.

In our anthologies, the children will be reading the story Red-Eyed Tree Frog and the poems The Snake and The Toucan.

Comprehension Strategies
The children will be practicing the skills of predicting and inferring.

Vocabulary Words
The vocabulary words for next week are: boa, caterpillar, eyed, eyes, iguana, katydid, macaw, moves, poisonous, tongue, and toucan.

Phonics Skills
The children will be learning about the vowel pairs ai and ay. We will also review the long e vowel and the vowel pairs ee & ea.

Grammar Lesson
We will be focusing on naming words for one or more.

Spelling Words
Next week’s spelling words are:
day, say, play, may, way, stay, away, holiday, evening, & near. (The test will be Feb. 20th due to IOWA tests.)

Have a great weekend!