Important Dates

January

21   -  No School

– Martin Luther King’s birthday

22 – Report Cards Go Home
25 - Pajama Day

30– Early Dismissal – 12:00

           

February

          14 – Valentine's Day Party

          18 – President's Day – No School

          

    Exploration Station

  Last Friday we started 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.

  

          After reading The Mitten by Jan Brett, the children colored and cut out the characters and stored them in a mitten bag.  We then worked on retelling the story using the important facts and details.  Ask your child to retell the story to you.

       Connor will be our student of the week from January 21-25.

Reading

          The stories from our anthology for next week are: EEK! There’s a Mouse in the House and Animals Big and Small.

Comprehension Strategies

          The children will work on noting details and asking questions while reading a selection.

Vocabulary Words

          The vocabulary words for next week are: barn, dancing, elephant, laying, marched, mercy, mouse, tangled, and rhyming words.

Phonics Skills

          The children will work on the following skills: blending long “e” (CV, CVCe), vowel pairs “ee", " ea”, long “o” (CV, CVCe), long “u” (CVCe) and final clusters “ft”, “lk”, and “nt”.

Grammar Skills

          The children will learn about naming words for places and things.

Spelling Words

         Next week’s spelling words are:

Bus, pot, swim, cube, tune, used, excuse, little, down, useless