Newsletter Feb. 10th- 13th

• 2/11- Assembly
• 2/11- Math Night- if you were not able to attend please check out the new math website. It is a work in progress but already includes many of the Common Core resources I shared including a video explaining the change.
• 2/14 Valentine's Celebration- rescheduled to Monday February 24th.
• 2/15-2/23- February Recess, no school
• When children return from February recess, we begin assessments for the end of term 2 and term 2 report cards (conferences in March!) so please keep them reading throughout the break so that they are prepared to do their very best when they return. It's amazing how much one week without reading can get in their way!

Volunteer Schedule for February

 

In Reader's Workshop we introduced our next focus, but with only three days we weren't able to really get into this unit yet.

 
Because of the difficulty the children had with the words two weeks ago, we are 1 week behind the list on my website...

	Next Week's Words (2/24-2/28):
New Words	our, read, there, many, want Practice
Review Words	has, how, because, stop, put Practice

We are still wrapping up our nonfiction writing unit with some penguin reports. We are using the kidspiration app to collect our expert facts about the penguin of our choosing.  Then we will compose an expository paragraph and upload them to the kidblog in the next few weeks.

We are still working on becoming super word problem solvers. We learned to:
1) Read the problem
2) Find the "power word(s)" 
3) Get the numbers in our head

4) Write the equation
4 Use a strategy and solve

We are also reviewing fact families.

  

Social Studies focus:

Science focus: 
Penguins - Want to help your child learn even more about their favorite penguin at home? Check out the 1st Grade Penguins Page!