No School Monday, February 11.

Thursday, February 14: We will enjoy a day celebrating friendship! We will pass out Valentine cards too! Our room moms will be sending out a class list for your child to use when filling our his/her Valentines. If your child has his/her cards ready before Thursday, he/she can bring them in and we will keep them here in the classroom. 

Centers: Starting the week of February 17th, we will have Workshops ( Centers) during RTI time, 7:55 to 9:00 Monday-Thursday.  If you would like to volunteer to help during Workshops, please email me and let me know. You will be signing up to volunteer in your child's HOMEROOM CLASS NOT his/her RTI class so it might turn out that your own child will not be here when you are volunteering. Again, if you are interested, please email me with the days you would like to volunteer.

 Language Arts: We will be enjoying the story Lost! It is a story about a bear who gets lost in the city. The strategy focus is monitoring and clarifying. We will do this with all the stories we hear this week. We will look for all the proper nouns in the story and the words with multiple meanings.

Science: We are studying weather this month. We are reading lots of non fiction books about all the different kinds of weather. Have fun listening to the meteorologist on the radio and tv. Also enjoy reading about the weather in our local newspaper.  

Social Studies: We will continue our unit on Famous Americans and learn how these great leaders helped to change and form our country. We will focus on George Washington next week  and end with a very, very special American. (make sure and ask your child who this very, very special American is)

Math: We will continue with Chapter 15 that focuses on sums to 12. Remember to work the practice pages into your child's daily math homework as well as math fact practice.

Choir: Weekly choir practice continues and I wanted to let you know that on February 13th we will be performing. Location and time TBA.

Homework Logs: Please complete your child's homework log daily writing down the book read and signing each day that your child has been working on math skills. This Homework Log is due each FRIDAY.

PE: Each Monday and Tuesday afternoon we have PE class so please make sure your child is wearing appropriate clothing and shoes to participate in all the activities.

Library: A reminder that each Friday we go to Rio's library so please help your child remember to return his/her book to class by Thursday.