Hi everyone! Parent/Teacher Conferences are coming up Feb. 20, 22, 23… I’m going to try a different website for sign-ups this time and will let you know as soon as I get it all set up. 

Valentine’s Day is also getting close… we will have a party and exchange Valentines. Kids may bring their own bag or box… something simple is usually best. Please keep them at home until Valentine’s Day. Everyone is welcome to join us at the party. My room will be doing a craft and I will need help with that… please realize that you will be staying in the room for both sessions to help out with the craft, even when my class rotates to the snack/game room. I know the party will be about 1:30… but will have exact times soon. 

This week, we will be practicing long /o/ spellings: ow, o, oa, oe. We will continue learning our phonograms and I am now pulling kids back for small group practice if their grades are low. If this doesn’t work, I will send home some work to do. We are learning the verb tenses of go/went and do/did and practicing capitalizing proper nouns. In centers, we are doing compound words, making sentences, and reading sight words. We are also working on writing narratives. Our guided reading text from last week, “Friend or Foe”, will be tested and the new one is “It’s Raining Cats and Frogs”. Please read through it EVERY NIGHT. I look for fluency and comprehension. We are almost done testing for midyear reading levels and the reading groups will change to reflect growth. 

In Math, we are learning numbers up to 120 and practicing place value. This includes 10 more/10 less and greater than/less than. We will continue to test concepts each week or so. We are learning so much… growing so much… our class is awesome! Thanks for all your help.