February 11th Newsletter

Important Dates
February
14 – Valentine's Day Party
15 – Reading Anthologies are Due
21 – President's Day – No School
24 – Spring Pictures
26 – Snowflake Ball 6:30-8:00

Thank you for making the school's service project a success! Our class collected 103 items for our Have a Heart..Lend a Can project. They were very excited when they reached the 100 mark. Thank you for being so generous!

Alexander M. will be our student of the week next week

Math
We just started Chapter 13 in math. We will be studying solid shapes (3-D) & plane (flat) shapes. There are a lot of new vocabulary words in this chapter, such as sphere, cube, cylinder, pyramid, rectangular prism, etc. The children are doing a fine job with it so far.

Reading
We will read the stories Lost and On the Move.

Comprehension Strategies
Next week we will work on sequencing, monitoring, clarifying, reading a diagram, and recognizing signs.

Vocabulary Words
The vocabulary words for next week are: building, buildings, city, disappears, elevator, friendly, library, part, scare, and worry

Phonics Skills
The children will work on the o sound made when using double o as in the words book and look. We will review the oa and ow vowel pairs.

Grammar Lesson
We will be working on proper nouns for places and things.

Spelling Words
Our spelling words will be: look, book, took, good, foot, cook, hoof, crook, school and police

Have a fantastic weekend!