Week 21- Our Second Snow Day!

🎧 If your child’s headphones are still at home, please send them back to school.

Monday, Feb. 8- No School
Tuesday, Feb. 9- Library, STEAM
Wednesday, Feb. 10- Music
Thursday, Feb. 11- PE
Friday- Feb. 12- ❤️ Valentine’s/Lunar New Year Celebration- 👕 WEAR RED!👘, Art

Valentine’s Party– Sign Up List – here are the items we will need if you’d like to sign up. (SEND IN BY THE 10th PLEASE)
The party will be in the morning on the 12th. The first-grade teachers will again rotate through the first-grade classes. There will be four activities, bingo, a drawing, a craft, and a math activity with candy hearts. In the afternoon we’ll celebrate Lunar New Year.

❤️ Valentine’s – We’ve are almost done making our hand-make Valentines AT SCHOOL. 😃 They are turning out so cute! Valentine Class List 20-21 (Cooley) Please send them in by February 10 if you are choosing to send any in! If you have any cute stickers or other crafty decorations your child may want to use to decorate, please feel free to send those in.

Mystery Reader-

This week we had an in-person Mystery Reader!!! Mrs. Jeltema, our lovely school secretary. She read us Noodles from Scratch. Sign up for a “Virtual Mystery Reader” slot by clicking this link.

Celebrations-

Star of the Day – Four new friends were Star of the Day this week- Ruby, Violet, Emmie, and Anastasia. We enjoyed having them lead us in the pledge and they enjoyed lunch with Mrs. Cooley on Thursday.

We also got to celebrate Cambry’s half-birthday this week.

Family time will be shifted because of the snow day.

OUR LEARNING:

Writing – This week we did a fun writing activity on the 100th day of school! We wrote all about what we think our lives will be like when we are 100 years old. We continued our unit on writing reviews and added a few new tools to our writer’s toolbox. Students learned how to respectfully disagree, give awards for last place, and quote others.

Word Study – We’ve spent this week “building” the middle parts of words. Lots of words contain vowel teams in the middle, so we learned about ea, ee, oa, and ai. We’ve been practicing building bigger words using these vowel teams!

Reading– We continued to work on being the boss of our own reading. We read to self-check, set new goals for our reading, and practiced how to get help when we need it. We can work together with our reading partners to solve hard words.

Math- This week we took our first math quiz for this unit! It focused on doubles and making a 10. We practiced drawing out double-digit numbers using ten-sticks and ones. Also, we continued working on understanding tens and ones and how we can group ones into tens. This is a skill that will be used all throughout the unit to help our first graders begin to work on addition problems with double digits.

Social-Emotional– This week we started a new unit with Little Penguin all about Kindness. We read Little Penguin’s Kindness Contest and got some ideas on how to help make other’s hearts happy and our own heart too!

Black History Month- We are learning about a different historical figure each day to celebrate Black History Month. This week we learned about Fritz Pollard, Ella Fitzgerald, Muhammad Ali, and Maya Angelou.

The cutest 100-year-old’s around!!