Monday, February 10, 2020

Week 22 ~ Feb. 10 - Feb. 14, 2020


Valentine’s Day is Friday.  We will have a Valentine card exchange throughout the morning.  Send Valentine cards on Friday if your child would like to participate.

Report cards come home Wednesday, February 12.  Make sure you sign and return the envelope.  You may keep the contents of the report card envelope.

This week we will:
  • Listen to stories read aloud and make predictions about what will happen next
  • learn to recognize and read our new Power Words:   little  lots  has
  • recognize, read and use all Power Words in reading and writing
  • use letters/sounds to spell words and write our thoughts on paper (writing sentences!)
  • decode and spell 1 and 2 syllable words
  • blend sounds to read new words
  • learn about the sound of short /e/ and name and read these patterns in words –eg  -et
  • continue learning about measurement (length and height)
  • count to 100 by 1s, 5s and 10s
  • count backwards from a given number
  • learn about water- different ways we use water and how it can be a solid, liquid or a gas

Homework for the week: 
·      ask your child to read these words: cap, mat, ran, sad, led, pen – these are all short vowel word families that we have been working on at school!
·      Name the 2 different kinds of clocks we studied (analog / digital) Which clock has hands?  (analog)
·      practice Power Words – especially the one’s that begin with ‘w’ and ‘th’!!!
·      read for 30 minutes – Log in two HOME reading steps each night in your reading log

Important dates to remember:
  • Feb. 14 – Valentine’s card exchange
  • Feb. 17 – President’s Day – No school
  • Feb. 21 – 100th day of school!
  • Feb. 27 – Kids Heart Challenge event

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