100th Day and Valentine's

We had a wonderful Valentine’s Day party today. Thank you to all of the parents who donated food, organized the activities, volunteer in the classroom, and helped their children get their valentines ready! The party was a great success and I know the students enjoyed celebrating their friendships!

Phonics

Our word family sounds of the week:- ap and -am

Sounds we know: s, a, t, i, p, n, ck, e, h, r, m, d, g, o, u, l, f, b, j, ai, oa, ie, ee, or, z, w, v. y, x, oo, OO, ch, sh, ng, th, qu, ou, oi, ue, er, ar, –at and –an

Popcorn Words

This week we learned: will, have, must

We read books and poems that included our popcorn words.

Words we know: a, I, it, in, see, big, my, like, up, run, at, on, we, me, am, did, not, is, can, but, to, too. little, and, yes, go, no, so,  the, you, down, he, she, be, our, here, out, get, help, now, look, good, jump

 Keep practicing these words as they continue to get more difficult. Ask your child how to practice the word using “nose” (while spelling each letter the student holds their nose)

Don’t forget the new tab at the top with ways to practice the popcorn words.

Handwriting/ Writing

At the writing center we worked on several stories this week involving the number one hundred. We took a couple of days to write what we would do with $100 and what we will look like and do when we are 100 years old. We had some very sweet friends who thought to donate their $100, we also had others buying castles, lots of pets, and friends who were going to buy 100 roses! When we are 100 years old some of us will have a “husband,” we are going to climb mountains, and eat a lot of cupcakes!

Reading

We have been practicing a new reading skill called “wondering.” While reading sometimes we wonder what will happen next, or about a characters feelings, or even why something has just happened. We are sharing these wonderings with our friends and teacher during story time. We read many valentine themed stories this week including Splat the Cat Funny Valentine, The Day it Rained Hearts, and An Awesome book of Love.

Vocabulary we have learned: creature, imitate, companion, explore, generous, nuisance, energetic, exhausted, soar, tangled, snooze, drowsy, pedestrian, passenger, eager, assortment, enjoy, gooey, container, scrumptious, whirl, scramble, determined, proud, snatch, furious, comfort, welcome, allow, frustrated, decide, practice, filthy, slam, concerned, moan, observe, enormous, patient, scoop, uncomfortable, comfortable, cozy and straight, doubtful, cautious

We continued our poetry unit this week with the poem Monster Love to the tune of: Oh my darling Clementine.

Oh my darlin’, oh my darlin’,

oh my darlin’ Valentine.

You are hairy and quite scary

but I want you to be mine.

Love your smile and your style,

And you smell of French fries.

You treat me oh so sweetly

When you bat your three big eyes!

Math

In math we continued working on addition to 5. We were also introduced to subtraction.  We will continue to use manipulatives and equations to understand how addition  and subtraction apply to our lives every day. In math centers this week we played an addition tic tac toe center. We also compared numbers in the classic card game “war.” We also did many 100th day counting activties. We worked on writing and counting our numbers up to 100. We read books about adding to 100 as well as sorting objects into piles of ten things (adding up to 100).

Important Reminders

February 17^th: No School, President's day.

February 18^th: Wear teal blue in honor of anti-bully week.

Thursday, February 20th: (Morning) Spring Picture Day - packages will be sent out in approximately 3-4 weeks. You may purchase them or return the package to school. Order forms went home earlier this week.

Saturday, February 22nd: Snowflake Ball (6:30-8:00)

We are running low on glue sticks. If anyone could donate a few extras we would be very happy. Thank you in advance!

If the weather is below 20 degrees with the wind chill we will not be going outside for recess!