​What a week we just had!  I think that is the only 3 storm day week I’ve ever experienced.

This time of year seems to be when feet decide to grow and shoes begin to wear out.  Please check with your child to see how their shoes are fitting and if they are wearing out.  If they have slip on shoes please make sure your child is able to run in them safely for gym class.

February is always a busy month with lots of special events happening.  Please check your child’s Communication Bag nightly for notices and return necessary papers as soon as possible.

We will be conducting a few experiments with water this week to explore changing states of matter.

Literacy:  Please continue to listen to your child read/read to them each night.  The goal is not only to build their skills as a reader, but also to build on their love of reading. 

Our No Excuses words for this week are: away, don’t, I’m, one, them and what.  We will keep the same words from last week (with the addition of one) since we only had two days to work on them in class.  We will continue learning about contractions.  While you are reading you can have your child look for contractions and ask them what words were put together to make that contraction.  We will be reading books about groundhogs this week and making our predictions for Groundhog’s Day.

In writing we are going to begin learning about dialogue.  This is a skill we will work on for quite a while as using quotation marks takes lots of practice.  Mrs. Burnett and I have a special project in mind once the students are comfortable with writing dialogue.

Math:  This week our numbers will be 83-86.  You can ask your child to show you the number as tens and ones, get them to skip count to that number, make an addition or subtraction equation with that number as the answer, etc. 

We are continuing to work on doubles and doubles plus one facts and on representing numbers to 100 in several different ways.  Please practice skip counting by 2s, 5s and 10s.  Our work with coins is going well.  Students are working on identifying coins by their name and value.  I am putting a challenge out to the students to find the oldest coin they can by Friday.  This should be a coin that they find around the house, in the car, in a change jar… anything but a rare/special coin.  We are also working on words problems.  Some students are beginning to work on adding two digit numbers while others are continuing to work on building their mental math strength with sums to 20.  We are also working on answering questions about the calendar: How many days are in a week? What will the date be one week from now? How many days is it until the next month?  What month is Valentine’s Day in?

Dates to Remember

Monday, January 28: No School, PL day

Tuesday, January 29: Tots n Taters, Tuesday breakfast program

Wednesday, January 30: Library Books due

Thursday, January 31: Great Canadian Bagel

Friday, February 1: Tots n Taters

Have a great week!​