week of February 10, 2020

Mrs. Borden and Mrs. Jones’ Newsletter (week of February 10, 2020)

Handwriting/Writing:  We were able to introduce Narrative writing this week and we have learned about bats briefly as well as nuts being food for animals and growing on trees.  We have been focusing on putting a period at the end of the sentence as well as making sure we have good spacing in between our words.  We have also reviewed capital letter A and lowercase letter a in Morning Work practice.

Reading:  We have learned about a Myth (a kind of traditional story that has a plot that tells about something in nature) and got to read a few different kinds of Myths over the week.  We also reviewed long i versus short i (pine vs pin) and listening to the middle sounds in words.  Please don’t forget to read at home for the monthly book log and to review sight words.

Math:  We are moving through our Addition (joining together) unit.  We have been counting one group of objects and another group of objects and then how many objects are all together and writing that number.  We have also been working on our latest Spring Math skill, Missing Number 1-20.

Science/Social Studies:  We finished up our groundhog unit and reviewed hibernation because hopefully the groundhog is right and we will have an early Spring and those animals will start waking up!  We are also talking about what you can do in snow and start working our way towards exploring Valentine’s Day.

Reminders:

The Valentine’s Day party is on Thursday.  Valentines for the class can be sent in any time they are ready.  A list of classmates’ names has already been sent home.  Any questions, please let us know J

Important Dates:

Monday, February 10- Day 7

Thursday, February 13- Valentine’s Day Parties, 2pm 

Friday, February 14- No School For Students

Monday, February 17- School Closed