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IMPORTANT DATES:

Monday, February 20 - Friday, February 24 - NO SCHOOL - February Vacation - Have a great week!  

REMINDERS: 

Wow words: Please continue to help your child gather new words each week through their reading and your conversations at home and bring them in on Wow Word Wednesday. Here are links to an online dictionary (Merriam Webster for kids - Word Central) and our wow word worksheet in case you need a new one. This is an ongoing reminder for the year. Please make acquiring new words part of your home routine.

CURRICULUM UPDATE:

In reading we: 

• Practiced our James Marshall reader's theaters and some groups presented in front of the class.
• Practiced determining importance by stopping and jotting the most important part of each chapter of our book after reading.

At home, talk with your child about his/her reading. Ask him/her about the most important part of the section or chapter that they read. If they begin telling you everything that happened, help them to pick out which part is the most important. 

Next week, we will finish presenting our reader's theaters and will read books about friendship.    

In Fundations (Word Study) we: 

• Finished our work in unit 7, in which we learned about open syllables, when y acts as a vowel, how to combine open syllables with closed syllables and v-e syllables in multisyllabic words.  

At home, please refer to the Unit 7 family letter to learn how you can support our word study work at home. Also, look though the fundations/word study section on my website. There, you will find all of the first and second grade trick words. If your child needs practice with these words, please practice through activities such as playing bingo, memory or through reviewing them on flashcards. Here is a link to a great website with different sight word games that you might like to try. 

Next week, we will begin working in unit 8, in which we focus on the r-controlled syllable, with ar and or sounds.   

In writing/social studies: 

• We started a special writing project on Mexico. We each chose a topic and began researching our topic in books. 

At home, talk with your child about his/her topic about Mexico. S/he may want to do some research at home to supplement reading at school.      

Next week, we will continue our work on our Mexico writing project by taking notes on our topics, beginning to plan chapters and starting to write. 

In math:

• We continued our work in our project-based unit, Ages and Timelines. 
• We used an open number line to support subtraction.
• We discussed the relationship between addition and subtraction. 

At home, look for ways to integrate subtraction into your conversations and help your child share his/her strategies for solving the problems. 

Next week, we will continue our work on the ages and timelines unit and will begin using our own family information.

In social/emotional learning:

• We read Stand in My Shoes.
• We discussed empathy.

Have a wonderful week!