News for the Week of January 21st

Thank you all so much for coming to our school's STEAM night last Thursday!  The turnout was great and our constellation telescopes were a hit!  We hope you enjoyed STEAM night and learned a lot!

In math this week, we began our unit on addition.  We joined together groups of counters, pictures of animals and cards with cookies on them.  We counted how many were in each group and then counted them altogether to find out how many there were in all.  We focused on vocabulary such as "add," "altogether," "in all," "join," and "more."  At the end of the week we worked with the addition sign and the equals sign and made number sentences.  We will continue our unit on addition next week.

In language arts, we read the poem, Lots of Boxes, which focused on the sight word "of."  We wrote the word "of" several times, looked for rhyming words in our poem and then colored the illustrations.  Our class integrated social studies into our reading this week and learned more about needs and wants, as well as why people have jobs.  We learned that people work to make money so they can buy what they need and maybe some things that they want.  We learned that we have to meet our needs first before we can buy things we want.  We also began to learn about jobs in the community and made a fun book about some different community helpers.  During word study, we learned about  words that end in -at and -ay.  We noticed how these words rhyme and we then learned about parts of words.  We continued our work in our handwriting book by writing words for the sounds animals make and then we worked on writing numbers.  Once we finish writing our numbers in the handwriting book, we will be finished.  Look for handwriting books to come home to keep in the next couple of weeks.  Next week, we will begin a new unit on Folktales, Fairy Tales and Fables and we will work on many 100th day of school activities.

In science, we finished our unit on seasons and weather.  We completed our weather assessment.  We will begin our unit on Objects in the Sky next week.

The Monkeys are excited to learn about our next superstar student, Ryan, next week!

Reminders

Please work on making a shirt with 100 items on it for our 100th day of school on Friday, February 1st.  Your child will wear this shirt to school that day and we will have a parade through the hall.  

Please remember to complete and send the "My child has my heart because..." page in your child's folder by Monday, January 28th.  We will hang these in the hallway as a grade level.

Please sign and return your child's report card envelope if you have not already.

Please send a regular black and white composition notebook for your child's math journal if possible.

Please be sure to check out the "Dates to Remember" below. 

Upcoming Dates to Remember: 

1/31          Class Photo & Spring Individual Photos
2/1            100th Day of School
2/13           Coffee Chat, 7:45 a.m., Library
2/14           Valentine's Day Party
2/18-2/19   No School

Superstars & Birthdays:

Morris Superstar:

Ryan!

Morris January Birthdays:

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