News for the Week of January 14th

We had a lot to do this week and the week seemed to fly by quickly!  We hope you will all be able to attend STEAM night on Thursday, January 24th from 6-7 p.m.

In math this week, we learned about weight and used the vocabulary "heavier" and "lighter."  These vocabulary words helped us to compare the weight of various objects using a balance.  We also focused on capacity and used the vocabulary "holds more" and "holds less" to compare containers.  The students enjoyed watching water being poured from one container to another to see which had the greatest capacity.  We then took an assessment on measurement.  Next week, we will begin a unit on addition.

In language arts, we read the poem, What Am I?, which focused on the sight word "not."  We wrote the word "not" several times, looked for rhyming words in our poem and then colored the illustrations.  Our class also finished our work on asking questions and finding answers about penguins.  We wrote about penguins and we will hang the books we made in the hallway this week.  We began integrating social studies this week by learning about needs and wants.  We discussed how people all need food/water, shelter, air and clothing.  We will continue learning about needs and wants next week.  We also learned about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and how he was important and contributed to our society.   We discussed the importance of the holiday, MLK, Jr. Day.  We made a card about how Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., had a dream and we then drew and wrote about our dream for the future.  During word study, we learned about changing the beginning sound of a word to make a new word.  We noticed how these words then rhymed.  We also discussed vowels and consonants and made cvc words together.  We then worked on words that end in -an.  We continued our work in our handwriting book by copying a paragraph, a poem and some sentences.

In science, we continued learning about weather changes over the seasons.  We kept a weather chart each day of the weather we observed and made predictions for the next day.  We also sorted pictures of various types of weather into the correct season.  we will finish our unit on weather this week during science.

The Monkeys were excited to learn all about our latest superstar student, Leighton!  We got to learn all about his life and interests.

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: 

1/24          STEAM Night, 6-7 p.m.
1/25          Pajama Day
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:

None

Morris January Birthdays:

Agastya-1/18

Happy Birthday Agastya!