Newsletter: January 12

Next Week's Specials:

Monday - Art

Tuesday - PE

Wednesday - STEAM, Library

Thursday - Music

Friday - Art

Coming Up...

• Jet's Pizza Night: Tuesday, January 16 (Don't forget to mention my name when ordering)
• Popcorn and PJ Day: Friday, January 19
• Early Release: Friday, February 2 (12:15pm dismissal)  
• Mid-Winter Break: Monday, February 5 & Tuesday, February 6

Reading:

This week we finished up our unit on pattern books.  We learned that some books can have a growing pattern, like The Mitten, because the animals get bigger and bigger on each page.  We also read The Hat and realized it has a growing pattern too.  We finally cleaned out our book bins...which explains why Friday folders were FULL of paper booklets this week!!  Next week we will focus on retelling stories using The Mitten and a few other winter themed books.   

Writing:

This week we wrote two new pattern books.  One pattern book was about winter.  We came up with many ideas of things that we see in winter.  Each student decided on 3 things that he/she wanted to write about and wrote his/her book using the pattern "I see a...".  We have been focusing on forming letters correctly and using the handwriting lines to help us as we write too.  

Math:

This week we practiced classifying (sorting) objects.  First, we practiced classifying a set of picture cards by color, shape, and size all together on the rug.  Then, partners got a new set of picture cards with various kinds of insects and had to figure out how to classify them.  They did well and came up with so many creative ways to classify!  We also practiced solving addition problems using a ten frame this week.