Mark Your Calendar:

 

No School>>>Friday, February 16-19th

Tuesday, February 20>  return to school; Presidents’ Day Report Due

Friday, February 23>  HW Packet Due and Quick Check Assessment

Week of February 25>  Review Week:  Sight Word, Listening Comprehension and Unit 4 Writing Assessment

Friday, March 2>  Half-Day 12:00 Dismissal; Dr. Seuss’ Birthday Enrichment Activity

Monday, March 5>  New HW Packet goes home

Friday, March 9>   Quick Check Assessment

Friday, March 16>  Quick Check Assessment,  End of 3rd Quarter

Thursday, March 22>  Homework Packet due today; Quick Check Assessment

******Spring Break> <March 23 – April 2, return to school on Tuesday, April 3.

 

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: Presidents’ 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 middle sounds

Word Study:   Continuation with Blends;  QU Words

Writing:  Completing Sentences; developing their own story:  character, setting, problem: Opinion Writing

Sight Words: ate    all    could    over>>>> many children are struggling to retain words

Math Block:   pay for items to $1 using dimes; identify seasons of the year and compare temperatures during different seasons

Science/Social Studies/Art:  Start of our 4-6 week USA Unit of Study

Religion:   Stations of the Cross

 Enrichment:

  USA Themed Projects over the next 4-6 weeks (some of which includes the following:  Classroom Heritage Map; USA Book-which includes Presidents and US Symbols; 50 States Song; etc)

Mad Scientist:  Egg Experiment

Foodie Fun:   QU Wedding

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