Mark Your Calendar
Monday, February 5> New Homework Packet goes home and is due February 23: Included with this packet is a Presidents’ Day Research Report that is due on Tuesday February 20th. Super Hero Shirt Day: wear your favorite super hero shirt with your PE shorts
Tuesday, February 6> 100th Day Of School> baggie of 100 pennies due today Blue and Gold Day: wear your favorite blue and gold shirts with jeans
Friday, February 9> Quick Check Assessment Crazy Sock Day: wear your favorite crazy socks with your regular uniform
February, 12 and 14> Health Screenings
Monday, February 12> Valentine Cards DUE today
Tuesday, February, 13> Valentine Card Exchange (not a party)
Wednesday, February 14> Ash Wednesday Mass at 1:30
Thursday, February 15> Quick Check Assessment
No School>>>Friday, February 16-19th
Tuesday, February 20> return to school; Presidents’ Day Report Due
Schedule of Specials:
Tuesday and Thursday (PE): children wear PE short and shirt with approved tennis shoes and plain white socks. Light-Up shoes and socks with color/emblems are not allowed.
Monday, Wednesday, Friday (Spanish, music, guidance): children wear regular uniforms (no PE). Approved shoes and navy socks are required. Tennis shoes are not to be worn on these days. Belts are required if there are belt loops. Hair accessories are limited to the colors found in the uniform.
Academic Themes for the Week
Topic: Valentine’s Day
Look for their Weekly Emergent Readers to go home on Fridays. I encourage you to save these weekly emergent reader books in a special place: a treasure box or special basket. Whenever they want to pull out a story to read to you, they can select a story from their special story box.
Reading Block: Capitalization & Punctuation; Blending; Writing a Complete Sentence; identifying a noun and verb in a sentence
Word Study: Continuation with Blends; -et word family introduction,
Writing: Completing Sentences; developing their own story: character, setting, problem
Sight Words: them give say new>>> many children are struggling to retain words
Math Block: 100th Day Math Counting to 100 with pennies!; combine sets by counting on and using numbers to describe how many objects are in a set, identify numbers 0-20, identify before, after and between and order the numbers 0-20. Assess writing number 0-50.
Science/Social Studies/Art: 100th Day Celebration Week
Religion: Introduce and Learn about the 12 Apostles, Define a Miracle
Enrichment –
variety of Valentine Crafts and Stories
Mad Scientist:
Foodie Fun:
To Work On At Home:
writing their first and last name
writing numbers to 100
blending sounds together to read words>reading and writing simple sentences
memorize phone number and address
tie their shoes