Dear Parents,
February is upon us! Can you even believe it? This year seems to be flying by.
LANGUAGE ARTS: We continue to work in our reading groups on
reading strategies, fluency, vocabulary development and comprehension. I am so impressed with the improvement in
reading that my whole class has shown!
We are continuing to write informational books in writer’s workshop and
will be moving onto opinion writing soon.
We will have a writing celebration when we are done with our
informational books, some of us are even writing chapter books!
MATH: We are finishing up
shapes and fractions. We will then move
onto sorting, comparing and ordering. We
will have some measurement in there and telling time too. I want to thank my two volunteers who come in
for math groups every Friday. THANK
YOU!!
SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY: We will
finish up plants and animals in February.
Our next science unit will cover air and weather. We will also be going into the CLAB to
explore with “little bits”. This is some
technology that helps students understand circuits.
SOCIAL STUDIES: We will be
working on a unit covering American symbols.
VALENTINE’S DAY: Last
Thursday I sent home information about our party and Valentines. It will be a fun day for sure!
100TH DAY OF
SCHOOL: We had a very fun day defeating
Dr. Double Digit and making the world safe for three digit numbers. Lots of counting to 100 took place!
• Feb. 14: Valentine’s
Day
• Feb. 15: Pete the Cat
10:00 at the Flint Center
• Feb. 16: Chinese New
Year Centers in the GLC
• Feb. 19-23: Winter
break
• March 16: Green
Luncheon in Room 30 (St. Patrick’s Day celebration)
• April 23: Hiller
Aviation Museum
• April 16-20: Spring
break
• May 18: No school
• May 25: First Grade
Performance in the GLC at 1:00
• May 28: Memorial
Day/no school
• June 4: End of the
Year party/first grade picnic
Thanks for your continuous support, Kathleen
Erikson
