Weekly News Feb 20-24

We had a visitor Friday to help us learn about ANOTHER important thing going on in February...Dental Health month!  Maysen's mom came to talk to us about her job as a dental hygienist and what we can do to keep our teeth and gums healthy!

Important Dates and Reminders:
February 22:Career Dress up Day
February 23:  1/2 day 11:30 Dismissal
February 24: NO SCHOOL
February 27: Family Night 5:30-7:00
March 2: Dr. Suess Character Dress Up Day
March 7: Paper Discovery Field Trip

Here is a peek at our week:

Reading: This week as a readers we will be teaching our partner about the expert (vocabulary) words that are important to our books. We will also learn a strategy to figure out the meaning of new words that we come across as we read and will work to put together the expert words, pictures and facts from our books to tell about it.  We will also learn how non-fiction readers can act out books to help us deepen our understanding of them.

Writing:  As writers we will continue to add more to our all about books by adding diagrams and definitions and will also begin to make sure we not only give information on each page, but say WHY that information is important.  We will also learn that adding our opinion on a topic is another way to say more!

Math: We will begin unit 4 this week.  The big ideas of this unit are:  continued work with story problems. decomposing numbers to find partners of 10 and naming and classifying three-dimensional shapes.  This week we will focus on: solving story problems by using what we know about partners of a number, using new tools to show ten groups in teens and looking for patterns as we discover the partners of 10.

Science:  This week in science we will take a closer look at paper.   We will explore different types of paper and notice how the react when we write on them with different writing utensils.  We have been using a this chart to help us ask and answer questions about our science topics.

Word Work:We will continue to practice the sight words: jump, funny, go, find, not.  One easy way to practice spelling sight words is to have your child write them small, medium, and large.  First they write the word as teeny as possible, then write it again normal, and then a third time jumbo!  This would also be great spelling practicing for any CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words using a variety of vowels