February 3-7

ANNOUNCEMENTS AND REMINDERS:

Homework packets are due on Thursday!  Please remind your child to put it in their backpack on Wednesday evening.  Remember... no homework packet = no free choice Friday!

Starting on February 7, Team Blowey will be participating in their own Winter Olympics.  Be on the look out for more information coming home this week!

Please remember to send in a healthy snack for your child each and every day!  Please make sure all snacks do not contain any strawberries, pineapples, or peanuts!  Also, water is the only drink allowed in the classroom.  Please save all juices for a lunch drink or an at-home drink.

This Friday, Mr. Sparks from Sparks Ark will be coming to visit.  He is a wildlife expert and has many animals to share!

THIS WEEK IN...

Phonics:  We will be working with consonant digraphs again.  This time, we’ll be working with the /th/, /sh/, /ch/ and /tch/ spelling patterns.  These are our focus words:  each, teaching, teeth, wishbone, matching, which, path, fishing, watch, and dish.

Vocabulary:  Here are our new words:  students, effort perform, mood, remember, and proud.  We’ll define these words and build connections to them.  Then, we’ll search for them in the short story called A Little Symphony by Lani Perlin.

Comprehension:  We will continue to work on summarizing a story.  When we summarize, we retell the story using only the most important parts of the story.  We’ll practice this skill while we read The Alvin Ailey Kids:  Dancing as a Team.

Writing:  This week, students will finish their writing check-ins, where they are writing to show me their very best.  This will help guide our goals moving forward in the year.  We’ll also begin a writing project that aligns with the upcoming Winter Olympics.  As a team, we’ll identify qualities we think a person needs to have in order to “go for gold!”  Then, we’ll write about what qualities we have inside us that would help us “go for gold” too!

Grammar:  We will be working with the verb “have”.  Have comes in two forms:  has and have in the present tense.  We use “has” when the subject is singular and “have” when the subject is plural or I or you.

Math:  We are continuing our flexible groups for place value.  Please refer to previous posts to find out exactly what your child will need to demonstrate in order to meet the standard.  

Read Aloud:  We are still on a marvelous adventure with Roald Dahl.  We are currently reading The BFG and loving every second of the adventure!

Scholastic News:  This week’s issue is all about dental health, in the past and today!  We will be practicing our comparison skills while we read the article.  Then, we will read and interpret a chart to answer questions about how to keep our teeth healthy!

Science:  Our plant life cycle continues!  This week, we are starting to see some flowers!  We will use our scientist eyes to help us write and keep track of exactly what we see.

I hope everyone has a wonderful week!