Important Dates
February
8 – Field Trip Money is due - $7
14
– Valentine's Day Party - 2:00
18 – President's Day – No School
19 – Reading Anthologies Are Due
23 – Snowflake Ball 6:30-8:00
26 – Early Dismissal
27 – Field Trip
Thank
you for making the school's service project a success! Our entire first grade collected over 400
items for our Have a Heart..Lend a Can project. Thank you for being so
generous!
Thursday, February 7, was our
100th day of school. We counted to 100, decorated crowns, completed a booklet, got tattoos, and did many other activities. Ask your child to tell you about it.
Author of the Month
Tomie dePaola is our
author for the month of February. We have been reading his books every day for the past week.The
children really enjoy his books about Strega Nona and Big Anthony. We also had a good laugh after reading the book entitled, Tom. Many of his stories tell about his life when he was growing up.
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 also work on the long e sound spelled
/ea/.
Grammar Lesson
We will be
reviewing nouns.
Spelling Words
Our spelling words will be:
Met,
web, spin, tea, heat, leaf, each, who, which, seashell
Reese will be
our student of the week next week.
