February 8th!

This Thursday we will have free dress because we won the BOXTOPS competition. Yay! Students can wear free dress but please follow the free dress guidelines in the handbook. We will also be having pizza in the afternoon as a snack. PLEASE SEND YOUR CHILD WITH LUNCH. Pizza will not be substituting lunches... it will be served during out Valentines party.

This week we are learning all about inventions. The students are really excited to use their ingenuity (our new fun word we used) and determination to invent things. Ask your child what they are going to write about this week and what they created in centers.

We are working on r-controlled vowels this week /ar/ar. We are blending and spelling all sorts of ./ar/ words (car, star, scarf). Pick two words with this sound and one that has a different sound and ask your child to find the work that does not belong. Ex: far, pan, star... which word does not belong?

We are working on cause and effect this week. What a great skill!

In grammar we are working on color words. Ask your child to tell you a sentence with a color word.

We will be writing letter this week to special people in our community. Today we wrote a letter to Fr. Joe for coming in during Catholics schools week to talk with us. The students wrote from their hearts and we put together a beautiful book for Fr. Thomas wrote, "Thank you for being a Father." Joseph said, "Thank you for being a priest." Catherine added, "Thank you for being a priest. You are a wonderful priest. When I am sick I will want you. But I hope I am not sick. Please come again. I love you and say hi to Fr. Pete for me." The students are so amazing and I am so proud of their writing and how far they have come. They are so sweet and Fr. Joe is going to love his book of thanks! :)

In math we continue to work on 10's and 1's to 50. We are doing a wonderful job!

Our vocabulary for the week is fantasy and president. Ask your child how they are going to illustrate their understanding of the words.

In science we are finishing up our unit on planets. We will be finishing our wonderful science planet books. Yippee. Can't wait for you to see the wonderful work that they have done.

Have a wonderful week!!