A peek at our week...

MARK YOUR CALENDARS:

** Newly added dates are marked with ** for those who follow and mark their calendars every week.

**Tuesday, 3/6 - Tuesday, 3/13: Spring Conferences - Please click HERE to sign up.

**Thursday, 3/8: Early Release - 12:30 dismissal

**Thursday, 3/8: International Festival - 6-8 pm. Click HERE for more information.

Friday, 3/23: Chinese Cultural Center field trip

Thursday, 6/7: Children's Museum field trip

ASK ME ABOUTS: 

Ask me about...

• Lunar New Year...Both Andrew's mom, Chen, and Ellie's dad, Wei, came in this week to teach us about Lunar New Year. What traditions interested you? 
• inferring character feelings...when reading at home, ask you child about how their  characters are feeling and how they know. Guide them to provide direct evidence from the text to prove their inference. 
• my ideas for my book about Mexico.
• the foods people eat in Mexico.
• how I can show my thinking about subtraction using an open number line.

LOOKING FORWARD:

Looking forward, we will:

• continue working in our reading unit focusing on characters in books. We will be reading many books about friendship. 
• continue work in unit 10 in fundations, focusing on the vowel teams ai and ay.
• continue writing about topics in Mexico.
• continue work in our math unit focusing on ages and timelines. 

Have a great week!!

We're 100 days smarter!

MARK YOUR CALENDARS:

** Newly added dates are marked with ** for those who follow and mark their calendars every week.

Wednesday, 2/14: Valentine's Day (see below)

Monday 2/19-Friday 2/23: NO SCHOOL - Winter Vacation

Friday, 3/23: Chinese Cultural Center field trip

Thursday, 6/7: Children's Museum field trip

REMINDERS FOR FAMILIES:

We will be exchanging Friendship/Valentine cards on Wednesday, 2/14. More information and a class list went home last week in your child's folder. You may also click HERE for this information.

ASK ME ABOUTS: 

Ask me about...

• how I can get to know my characters...This week we practiced getting to know our characters through noticing what they do, what they say, what they want, how they respond to challenges, and how they interact with other characters. We then made inferences about them based on what we read. When reading with your child at home, talk about their characters and what you can infer about them. 
• my 3D shapes that I created
• my informational book that I am writing...How do I hook my reader in my introduction?
• what I am thinking to write about when I begin writing my book about Mexico next week.
• bucket filling
• Diego Rivera
• the spelling options procedure and how I can use it to help me spell words with ir, er, and ur (all make the sound /er/).

LOOKING FORWARD:

Looking forward, we will:

• continue working in our reading unit focusing on characters in books.
• continue work in unit 9 in fundations, focusing on the r-controlled vowels -ir, -er, and -ur. We will use a procedure called the spelling options procedure to determine correct spelling of words, since all three r-controlled vowels make the same sound!
• begin writing about topics in Mexico.
• begin a new unit in math focusing on ages and timelines.
• continue our study of Mexico by learning about Mexican foods.

A peek at our week...

MARK YOUR CALENDARS:

** Newly added dates are marked with ** for those who follow and mark their calendars every week.

Monday, 2/5: Progress notes available to families

Wednesday, 2/7: Early release - 12:30 dismissal

Friday, 2/9: 100th Day of School...More information will come home with your child on Monday

Wednesday, 2/14: Valentine's Day (see below)

Monday 2/19-Friday 2/23: NO SCHOOL - Winter Vacation

**Friday, 3/23: Chinese Cultural Center field trip

**Thursday, 6/7: Children's Museum field trip

REMINDERS FOR FAMILIES:

Friday 2/9 is the 100th day of school. You child should collect 100 items to share on that day (and maybe even find 100 things to wear as well, such as 100 beads on a necklace or 100 polka dots on a shirt!). A bag to collect your items and more information were sent home today. The same information can also be found HERE. 

We will be exchanging Friendship/Valentine cards on Wednesday, 2/14. More information and a class list went home today in your child's folder. You may also click HERE for this information.

Please send your child with weather appropriate clothing. Please make sure to send your child to school with weather appropriate clothing for both indoor and outdoor times. If you send your child to school wearing boots, please send sneakers or other indoor shoes to change into while we are inside. When there is snow on the ground, please send in boots, snow pants, hats, mittens and jackets so that your child can participate fully in snow-related outdoor activities. Thanks!

ASK ME ABOUTS: 

Ask me about...

• my character traits...How do my actions show my character traits? When you are reading at home, discuss the characters in the books you are reading and try to determine their character traits. Pick out evidence (words and actions from the text) that support those claims.
• how I can combine shapes to make other shapes.
• my informational book that I am writing...Have your child tell you about the different chapters that s/he added this week.
• any interesting places or things that I learned about Mexico this week...What are some responsibilities that children have in Mexico that are similar or different from my own?
• how kindness spreads...discuss your own experiences with kindness spreading.

LOOKING FORWARD:

Looking forward, we will:

• work in our new reading unit focusing on characters in books.
• work in unit 9 in fundations, focusing on the r-controlled vowels -ir, -er, and -ur. We will use a procedure called the spelling options procedure to determine correct spelling of words, since all three r-controlled vowels make the same sound!
• continue our informational writing unit focusing on writing non-fiction about expert topics. We will begin writing about topics in Mexico soon.
• begin a new unit in math focusing on ages and timelines.
• continue our study of Mexico by reading and discussing The Day of the Dead and learning about Diego Rivera.