January 14th Newsletter

Important Dates
January
17 - No School - Martin Luther King's Birthday
28 – Gym Night
February
14 – Valentine's Day Party
21 – President's Day – No School

Exploration Station
Next Friday we will begin a new Exploration Station. The students will be learning about the flag, monuments, and famous Americans, such as George Washington, Martin Luther King Jr., and Abraham Lincoln. This unit also discusses voting – how it works and why it's important to vote.

Claire will be our student of the week next week.

There will be no power hour (switching of classes) for the next two weeks due to benchmarking (reading assessments). We will still be reading the stories from our reading anthology and will be going over the skills that go along with each story. We will be having our spelling test on Friday, but there will not be any challenge words for those two weeks. Thanks.

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
We will be working on long o (CV-CVCe), long u (CVCe), final clusters (-ft, -lk, -nt), long i (CVCe)(review), and segmenting phonemes.

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

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

Have a good weekend!