Week 25

A big thank you to all the parent help during the field trip and throughout Catholic Schools Week. I know it was special for your little ones to see you there and we could't have done it without your help!!
This week will be a bit calmer :)
 Here's a look at what we'll be learning:

Reading: Our theme this week is oceans and waterways, along with the sounds /r/. Our words are  will, be, into, that, your, who.  The students will hear One Dog Canoe and Atlantic.

• This week you will get a take home reader for some extra at home reading practice. The book will be selected to match your child's reading level and should be practiced at home until they are fluent with reading it. Then they will read it to me at school. The hope if to master the store and receive another to continue to challenge and increase fluency.  Here are a few  things we do before reading a new text in class: (a)Take a picture walk to get a feel for characters, setting, and the activities. (b) find sight words we are already familiar with, (c) find any words that might be challenge words and work through them together(beginning sounds, breaking a large word into smaller words, etc)....then your kiddo is off and reading aloud. 
• We also will begin spelling tests this week. There is a letter accompanying the first list so keep an eye out in your child's red folder. This weeks words will be car, far, star, be, me, and we. 

Math: We will be working on counting on and counting back again this week. This is a foundation skill set that will help the kiddos when we move into addition and subtraction. 

Religion: This week the students will learn about Jesus' disciples...his closest fiends. We will learn the names of all 12 and some fun facts about each of them. We will also make our February placemats this week for our Spirit of Service project. The kiddos have loved creating this art piece for those at Pueblo Norte Assisted Living. We will be in need of an extra set of hands this Friday at 11:15. Please send an email if you are available to help out!

A reminder that our class valentines party is Feb14 at 1:15. An email was sent out last week with details for sending in valentine's. Please reach out with any questions!
Have a great week!