Happenings February 4 - 11,2011

Happenings February 4 - 11,2011

Beginning February 7 - 11, 2011, we will have Anti- Bully week. Please refer to your handout that was sent home to find out all of the activities that are planned to help continue to make our school bully free.
In Phonics we will continue focusing on the letter C. We will also add the letter E to our letters for next week. For next week's show and tell your child can bring in any object that begins with the letter c or e. Show and tell will be on Friday as usual. Word list 11 will be sent home on Feb 4. The test will be next Friday, Feb. 11. Please take time to review this list, it is most important that your child can use their knowledge of letter sounds to read each word than memorization. Thank you for working with your child on this.
In math, we are using a balance scale and estimating how many items weight more or less. We are using words such as heavier, lighter, and equal. We are also going to be working with ordinal numbers and practicing position words such as first, second, third, etc... Review of numbers 1 - 20 will also be included in this week's math lessons.
In reading, we are moving on to the story "Farfallina and Marcel". This story is about a young gosling and a caterpillar who meet and become friends. when each of them seem to have disappeared, the other friend is sad until one day they meet again and have changed and grown. Their friendship continues and they are happy again. This story focus again on how things grow and change, sometimes the change is very dramatic as in a butterfly or a goose. The focus skill for this story is plot, which basically is telling the beginning, middle, and end of a story.
Monday, February 7 will be day 2 in our four day cycle. Our special class will be music.