Week of February 16-19, 2016

Our fun-filled February continued to provide exciting learning experiences for us. We celebrated Groundhog Day, Super Bowl, the 100^th Day, Chinese New Year, Doughnut Day, and Valentine’s Day. We even took time to celebrate the snow! President’s Day is the last holiday we will discuss this month. Although some instruction revolved around these special events, we still followed our usual curriculum. This week we will settle back into our normal routine.

Reading: “My Lucky Day” is the new story. This animal fantasy tells about a fortunate adventure involving a piglet and a fox. We will be exploring cause and effect, as well as action parts in a sentence. The Amazing Words for the week are: piglet, lucky, cook, fox, filthy and scrubber. The Sight Words: are, that and so will be rehearsed.

Phonics: The letter of the week is Ll. The sound for this letter is /l/, as in lemon. We will explore this sound in the beginning and end of words.

Math: Topic 7 is introduced this week. The goal of this topic is to understand addition. We will use stories showing how to join groups and count how many items there are altogether. The plus and equal sign will be used to write addition sentences.

Reminders:

~ There is no school for students on Friday, February 12^th, and Monday, February 15^th.

~ Please review sight words daily. Also practice counting by 1’s, 2’s, and 10’s.

Specials : Tuesday- Computers, Wednesday- Guidance, Thursday- Art, Friday- Gym

Have a lovely week!