Important Dates
January
19-
No School
–
Martin Luther King’s birthday
30 - Cozy Pajama Day
(reading incentive)
February
9 & 10 – Conferences
11 – Early Dismissal – 12:00
12
– Valentine's Day Party
13 – No School
16
– President's Day – No School
Exploration Station
We
will be starting a new unit in science dealing with weather. Our first topic that will be covered is
hurricanes & tornadoes. We will be
reading books and then comparing & contrasting the 2 types of weather using
a Venn diagram. We will also be playing
on a website which allows the children to change the size & strength of a
tornado and see what happens.
Our next parent/teacher conferences are on
an as-needed basis. I will be sending
out an email next Tuesday morning to the parents of students I would like to
see. If you do not receive an email and
would like to schedule a conference, please let me know.
**Report cards will not be sent out until
later in March.
Katelyn Krapf will be our student of the week from
January 19-23.
Reading
This week we read The
Solar System by Jeff Bauer. We
learned about the 8 planets (ask your child to tell you why Pluto isn’t
considered a planet anymore), asteroids, meteors, comets, moons, and more.
The vocabulary words for
this book were: asteroid,
classify, comet, meteor, universe, and vast
Phonics Skills
The children will work
on the following skills: long “u” (CVCe) and final e
Grammar Skills
The children will learn about forming
the past tense of verbs by doubling the final consonant – such as, hug/hugged,
nod/nodded, rip/ripped.
Spelling Words
Next week’s spelling words are:
Bus,
pot, swim, cube, tune, used, excuse, little, down, useless
***Enjoy
your day off on Monday!
