News for the Week of February 4th

The Monkeys really appreciate their parents writing the very kind and sweet "My child has my heart because..." pages.  They are so wonderful to read and it will be a treasure for your child to keep that I will add to their end of year book.  If you have not seen them all displayed together, come check them out in the hallway.

In math this week, we worked more on addition and we practiced writing the plus sign and the equals sign in number sentences.  We drew number cards to create various addition equations.  We increased numbers also to make the addition a bit more challenging.  We have about a week and a half before this unit is complete.  We will then begin our unit on subtraction.

In language arts, we read the poem, Silly Rhymes, which focused on the sight word "look."  We wrote the word "look" several times, looked for rhyming words in our poem and then colored the illustrations.  We also wrote our own silly rhyme at the bottom of the poem.  We continued learning about fairly tales this week by reading Jack and the Beanstalk, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Rapunzel.  We noticed how all of these fairy tales began with "Once upon a time," and ended with "happily ever after."  We also noticed the good and evil characters, the setting, the problem and solution and the element of magic.  We colored the characters from Jack and the Beanstalk and then cut them out and are now able to retell the story.  We completed a reading response after reading Snow White and Seven Dwarfs and wrote what we would want if we had a magic apple.  We will begin focusing on folktales in reading next week.  We will also work on a few Valentine's Day activities.  In writing, we wrote about what love is to us and made cute cats after reading Love, Splat.  Our "Love is" cats are displayed in our hallway.  During word study we focused on words with 3, 4 and 5 parts.  We blended sounds together to make words.  We also listened to Mrs. Morris say word parts and then had to figure out what word Mrs. Morris was saying.  We finished writing our numbers in our handwriting book and took our orange handwriting books home!  All students have really improved their handwriting this year!  They came a long way from handwriting at the very beginning of the year.

In science, we finished our unit on Objects in the Sky and took an assessment.  We then began our unit on Living and Nonliving Things.  We will continue our living/nonliving unit next week.  We will also learn about Presidents' Day for social studies next Friday.

The Monkeys had fun learning about our superstar student, Avery!  We got to learn all about her life and interests!

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

Reminders

We will exchange Valentine's Day cards with our class on the morning of Thursday, February 14th.  If you and your child would like to make or buy valentines to exchange, please send one for each student in our class.  We have 21 students.  Do not address them to anyone, but your child may sign their name.  This makes the passing out of cards quick and easy.  We will make Valentine's Day mailbox bags at school.  Thank you!

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

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

Upcoming Dates to Remember: 

2/12           Scholastic Book Order Due
2/13           Coffee Chat, 7:45 a.m., Library
2/14           Valentine's Day Party, 2 p.m.
2/18-2/19   No School
2/22           Twin Day-dress with a friend as twins
2/26           PTA Meeting, 6 p.m.
3/1             Read Across America/Dr. Seuss' Birthday
                  (Dress as your favorite Dr. Seuss character or wear a Dr. Seuss shirt)

Superstars & Birthdays:

Morris Superstar:

Aubrey!

Morris February Birthdays:

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