Thursday, January 25, 2018

January 22nd - January 26th

What We Are Learning
Reading: 
Retelling Nonfiction Text
Comparing and Contrasting different nonfiction texts
Word Work:
Word Wall Words: old, tell, went. off, & big
Word Chunk: ea & ee
Word Family: _eak
Writing:
Opinion Writing
Writing a topic sentence stating our opinion
Including three details in the middle
Writing an ending sentence to our opinion stories
Math:
Topic 8: Place Value
Place Value
Using tens and ones to show number values
Theme:
Goods and services
Creating a Goods and Services Poster

Valentine Boxes
On Friday February 16th, we will be having our Valentine’s Day Celebration! Your student is invited to create a Valentine’s box at home and then bring it to school on that day. I will be sending more information home about the party as time gets closer.

Make Up Snow Days
Our two snow make-up days are scheduled for Monday, February 19th (President's Day) and Thursday, May 24th. This moves our last day of school from Wednesday, May 23rd to Thursday, May 24th. Wednesday will now be a regular, full day and Thursday will be a half day. Tell your kiddo to please stop doing snow dances!

Dates to Remember
February 16th: Valentine’s Day Party
February 16th: Dismiss at 12:30
February 19th: Make-up snow day
March 9th: Dismiss at 12:30
March 12th- March 16th: Spring Break
March 30th: NO SCHOOL

April 2nd: NO SCHOOL