Important Dates
February
16 – No School – President's Day
19 – Robert Crown Field Trip
20 – Paper making Assembly
26 – Pictures
28 – Snowflake Ball

March
2 – No School – Casimir Pulaski Day
6 – End of the trimester
10 – Report Cards
12 – Early Dismissal/Conferences
13 – No School

Tomie dePaola
Tomie dePaola is our author for the month of February. We have been reading his books everyday and explored his website at www.tomie.com .

Student of the Week
Matthew was our “student of the week” this week. He has done a nice job of writing the date and leading the calendar.

Valentine's Day Party
Thank you to everyone who helped with the Valentine's Day party. It was a nice way to end the week of testing. The children had a good time.

IOWA Testing
We finished taking the IOWA test today. If your child was absent during testing, make-up testing will be done next week.

“Lend a Can” Food Drive
Thank you for making the school's service project a success! Our class brought in 106 cans of food and approximately $10.00 in spare change. Thank you for your generosity!

Reading
This reading lesson was started this week. The children did not have 'Power Hour' the week of February9th and will not have it the week of February 17th due to the shortened week and our paper making assembly.

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, & 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.)

Happy Valentine's Day - enjoy the long weekend!