The children may bring Valentines for their classmates.  I have included a class list and a letter explaining how Valentines will work in our classroom in your child's Monday folder.

Our new reading book adds a new component on the reading test on Fridays.  The students will now have 2 vocabulary words that are associated with the weekly story.  These words will be on the test on Fridays.  You will find the words and definitions below under vocabulary.  

Parent's Day will be Thursday, February 2nd.  Parents or someone special will have the opportunity to attend Mass, go to the book fair, visit classrooms, and enjoy a small snack.  Exact times and details should be coming home soon.

Please make sure your child is dressed for the weather when he/she comes to school each day.  We do go outside for recess as long as the temperature is 32 degrees or above.  

We have two students with allergies in our classroom.  Please do not send any snacks with your child that contain peanuts, tree nuts, or peanut butter. 

Spelling: Your child will take a written spelling test on Friday.  Please help your child practice his/her spelling words each night. 
This week's words are: me, we, feed, keep, seat, beak, other, because

Phonics: This week we will work on words with the long e sound spelled with an "e", "ea", or "ee".  We will focus on decoding and writing words with this sound.

Reading: This week's high frequency words are: small, because, other, or, into, blue. Please help your child practice reading and writing these words at home.  This week we will be reading "Animal Teams".  The story can be found on pages 36-55 in your child's reading book. We will be working on identifying the main idea and key details.  The reading book will come home on Tuesday and Thursday.  We will have a reading test on Friday.

Vocabulary: danger - a risk of being hurt or harmed
                    partner - a person who works with you to do something

Writing: We will be working with the verbs has and have.  We will also continue writing a story about a snowman.  Our goal is to have our stories hanging in the hallway when everyone comes to visit on Parent's Day.

Math: We will continue working on our next chapter, which focuses on place value of numbers up to 120.  We will be using base ten blocks to build the numbers and we will compare numbers using the greater than, less than, and equal signs.

Religion: We will finish working on chapter 11, which focuses on the beginning of the Church.  We will have a test on Wednesday.  Look for the study guide in Tuesday's folder.

Science: We will continue working on a unit that focuses on Earth and space science.  We will have a short test over lesson 1 on Thursday.  Look for a study guide in Wednesday's folder.

Social Studies: We will be working on a new unit over geography.  We will learn about different types of maps, ways to use maps, and tools that can be found on maps to help us.

January 30-February 3rd  Catholic Schools Week/Book Fair
February 2nd - Parent's Day
February 8th - Early Release Day (dismiss at 2:47pm)
February 14th - Valentine parties

Monday: Art
Tuesday: Music
Wednesday: Library
Thursday: PE
Friday: Computer

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phone: (765) 647-4961