February 10-14

ANNOUNCEMENTS AND REMINDERS:

Tomorrow is our sledding day!  Mrs. Boyce will be taking Team Blowey over to the sledding hill for tons of fun at recess tomorrow!  Please make sure that your child comes to school with snow pants, jacket, hat, mittens, and boots so that they can join in with the fun!

Remember, Team Blowey’s Winter Olympics started on Friday!  Be sure to help your child fill in that recording sheet!  Please contact me if you have any questions.

In your child’s mailbox today is a questionnaire for you to do with your child.  You will be asked to write down some memories with your child so that they can incorporate them into an autobiography.  You will be reminiscing about memories as a baby, in kindergarten, first grade, second grade, summer memories, and other fun memories.  I am asking that this questionnaire be returned by Wednesday, February 12!  If it is easier for you to email the memories to me, you are more than welcome to do that as well!

This Wednesday is an early release day!  Please plan accordingly!

This Friday is Valentine’s Day!  Last week, students were given an OPTIONAL homework assignment to build a box for valentine’s day cards.  If you are not able to build a box at home, do not worry!  We’ll have a chance to make something here at school.

If your child plans to bring in valentines on Friday, please make sure they are bringing one for everyone in the class.  Also, please do not send in any candy with your valentines.  We’ll celebrate by playing some Valentine’s Day themed minute to win it games!

Homework packets will be due on Thursday!  Please remind your child to put it in their backpack on Wednesday evening.  This Thursdays homework packet will be a little bit different.  It will be a vacation homework packet instead!  If you have questions once you receive it, please let me know!

This week in...

ELA:  

We will be introducing autobiographies!  An autobiography is a book about the life of a person, written by that person!  With some help from you at home, Team Blowey will begin writing stories about their life to share with the rest of the team.  Then, we will have the chance to write buddy biographies!  We will interview a partner, and write a short story about their life.  This will be the introduction to our second grade biography projects where Team Blowey will be researching a famous person from history and writing a report about them.  

We will also be reviewing some reading strategies that help us become better readers.  As a whole group, in small groups, and as individuals, we will review story elements.  We will talk about what they are and how to identify them in the stories we read.  We’ll talk about title, characters, setting, problem, and solution.  

To go along with the Winter Olympics, we will also be creating Teamwork mini books and writing a Teamwork acrostic poem.  In our books, we’ll write about how we can be team players, a good partner, and the kinds of words we might use when talking to our teammates.  

Math:

We will continue our flexible math groups for place value.  Students will be working towards reading and writing three digit numbers in standard form, word form, and expanded form.  They will understand the ones, tens, and hundreds place being able to identify what digit is in each place and the value of that digit.  They will also be working with groups of 1, 10, and 100 in a three digit number.  Students will work on skip counting by 5s, 10s, and 100s up to 1,000.  The power standard is being able to compare two three digit numbers using <, >, and =.

Scholastic News:  

Team Blowey will be reading Road to Gold, an article about Evan Lysacek.  We will learn about his road to winning a gold medal at the Winter Olympics!  Then, we will use a map to answer questions about the different countries the Winter Olympics have been held in the past.

Science:  

We are nearing the end of our plant life cycle.  Soon, we should be seeing some seed pods and begin to harvest the seeds.  Once we have some new seeds, we will try to replant them and see if we can begin the plant life cycle again!  

Early Release Day Project!

This project is one that is very near and dear to my heart!  Since Valentine’s Day and the 100th day of school fall on the same day this year, we will be working like a team to create 100 valentines to be sent to the elderly who are living in an assisted living facility.  Something small that can really brighten up someone’s day!  The valentines will be delivered just in time for our older friends to enjoy reading at dinnertime!  To kick off the project, we will read the story Cranberry Valentine by Wende Devlin.  This is a sweet story about Maggie and her grandmother who sent secret valentines to Mr. Whiskers, a grumpy man who has never before received a valentine!

100th day activities!

Can you believe Valentine's Day and the 100th day of school fall on the same day?  It's crazy!  To celebrate the 100th day of school we will load up our morning with some fun activities!  First, we’ll make a picture of what we think we will look like when we are 100 years old using some torn paper.  Then, we’ll challenge ourselves to try and build a 100 cup structure!  finally, we’ll use the number 100 to make an interesting picture.  Some might form the number 100 to look like glasses, some might form the number to look like a car!

I hope everyone has a lovely week!