Thank you to everyone for your on-time arrivals at conferences. I enjoyed meeting with everyone.
VALENTINES' DAY
Your child is allowed to bring in Valentines on Friday the 12th. The rule is: if you choose to participate, you must bring one for everyone in the class. I will attach a list of student names to Monday's homework to help your child address envelopes. We are not having a "party" but will have a small treat and enjoy reading our valentines. Our Art Awareness parents will be leading us in decorating valentine boxes earlier in the week.
SNOWBALLS!
Yes we made our goal. As of Friday morning the first graders read a grand total of 2,337 books. We thank you for your support. Now we get to go ice skating!
Look for a permission form to come home on Monday outlining our plans for the afternoon of February 19th.
Don't forget there is no school on Monday, February 15th due to President's Day.
If you would like to read a great article and view some pictures from last month's Peace Concert led by Mrs. Friesen go to
SIX FLAGS READING
This is a reminder to you that if your child is working towards the free admission ticket to Six Flags the reading log is due by February 26th! Late entries will not be accepted! If your child has completed the 6 hours you can send the log in at any time and I will hold them until collection day.
LANGUAGE ARTS
This week the student's began writing a story about the best day of their life--so far! They are using a graphic organizer to answer the where? when? who? and why? details of their chosen event. We continue to work on sequencing, capitalization, and punctuation in telling our stories.
The students are also working with DOL (Daily Oral Language)sentences. They find errors in sentences I write on the board and make corrections. They must identify the grammar or punctuation rule that goes with each correction.
In our reading, we will be focusing on cause and effect , making inferences, making connections and summarizing. Determining the main idea of a story will be part of our discussions. Next week we will be reviewing adjectives and verbs.
SOCIAL STUDIES
Our last lesson in Unit 3 discusses how goods are brought to market. We will learn about the process of making orange juice-- getting food to market.
We will use a Compass Rose to give and find directions on a map. These social studies lessons often use the same comprehension strategies used in our reading--- such as cause/effect and compare/contrast.
HEALTH
This week we worked with our personal safety curriculum. This curriculum gives the students rules, information, and role playing to help them protect themselves in unsafe situations. Our discussion centered on bicycle safety, gun safety and safe and unsafe touches.
MATH
We finish Unit 5 next week with work on doubles facts (5+5=10) and facts related to doubles (5+6=11). Assessment will follow. Unit 6 starts out with learning about the addition/subtraction facts table. We will be working on equivalent names for numbers, fact families, and turn around facts. The students will be working with triangle flash cards. The "big idea" of unit 6 is to develop "fact power" -- the instant recall of sums of 1-digit numbers without stopping to figure them out. Working at home on math facts is always a help to the development of fact power!
CELEBRATIONS
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Nathan Tirone
Nathan Tirone
February 14th
