HAPPY NEW YEAR! I hope you all had an amazing break filled with love, laughter and lots of memories!
We are getting closer to the mid way point of the school year. Some months will fly by and before you know it, our kiddos will be becoming 1st graders.
In the mean time, we will continue to work hard and makes lots more memories.
Remember to always check back here on a weekly basis for all up to date info. Also, don't forget to check out the school's PARENT HUB (link can be found below).
Families, don't forget to use SMARTY ANTS at home. Log in information was given at back to school night. This is an amazing reading program that is also INDIVIDUALIZED! If your child still needs help with letter sounds, it will help them with that. If your child is ready to read CVC words, it will challenge them in that.
If you have trouble logging in, please feel free to reach out to me!
Log in page:
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Please help me reinforce the following hand signals and rules:
Hand Signals: (show me the number of fingers in the air)
1 finger: restroom
Encourage your child to use the restroom before school, during recess, during lunch, during PE and after school.
2 fingers:water
Children may bring their own water bottle to keep in class, please LABEL it with their name
3 fingers: pencil
Student may replace their dull or broken pencil for a new one
4 fingers: tissue
when needed, please ask student to sit back down right away
5 fingers: question
question for me to give more information on
Classroom rules:
#1: Listen while the teacher is talking
#2: Follow directions quickly
#3: Respect others, respect yourself, respect your school
#4: Raise your hand to speak or stand
#5: Keep your hands to yourself
#6: Keep your dear teacher happy
If you have any question or concerns please feel free to email me, text back to the reminders I set or stop by the classroom.
School News:
Parent HUB link:
Click here
January Family Project
Due: Jan 28th
Ideas: Color Sammy and takes him with you anywhere you wish and makes memories!
Students will share what they did with Sammy at the end of the month.
Feel free to make a poster board, book or anything else to show what you did with Sammy!
Have FUN!
1/21: NO SCHOOL MLK
1/25: Kinder house competitions
2/6: DAY OF PLAY
-Students can bring in any toys they would like the day (please label EVERYTHING)
We will be playing all day inside and outside the classroom.
Feel free to also send blankets to make forts or anything else you can thing of to have fun and PLAY!
2/7: 100th day of school
This day will be filled with lots of fun activities centered around the number 100!
Donation and volunteer sign up sheet will be posted soon!
THANK YOU IN ADVANCE FOR THE DONATIONS!
2/8: Sweetheart Dance (after school)
2/14: Valentines Day
We will have a small classroom celebration and students will pass out valentines (if they would like).
2/15: NO SCHOOL
2/18: NO SCHOOL
3/1: Read Across America
3/12: Spring Pictures
FREE DRESS
3/21: T2 Trimester Awards
3/27: FULL DAY OF SCHOOL
3/29: SPRING PERFORMANCE
MINIMUM DAY
NO AFTER SCHOOL
Here is a look into our week
Songs to practice at home:
Language Arts: Unit 3-week 4
- Theme: Seasons
- Story of the week: "Mitten"
- Poem of the week: "winter, spring, summer, fall"
- Letter(s) of the week: F
- Home activities: Look for the letter(s) Ff (in all types of fonts)
- Say words that begin with Ff
- Draw pictures that begin with Ff
- Sound out blend CVC words (determine if real or silly)
- fip, fim, fig,fib, fit, fid, fox
- Songs:
- Weekly reading comprehension test: Every Friday (Based on the comprehension skill of the week)
- Song we review in class: Parts of a story song
- This week's focus: plot
- High Frequency Words (HFW-also known as Sight words : Same set of words last for two weeks. These words are meant to be read just by "seeing" them)
- TEST: FRIDAY
- Students will be able to count to 20 in different ways
- Count by 1's
- Count by tens and ones
- Students will be able to make groups of ten
- Students will be able to describe the winter and fall seasons
- What is the weather like?
- What kind of clothing would you wear?
- What happens to trees during these 2 seasons?
- Song:
Social Studies: leadership
- Students will be able to review rules and state what makes a good leader
Writing: The Writing house
- TEST: FRIDAY
- Students will be able to write their own "I like" sentence to describe what they like to do.
- Write "I like" sentences with CVC words at the end
- write letters in correct part of house
- Practice paper (print and use at home)
Please feel free to stop by with any questions or concerns. If you are unable to, you may always email me or text back via my reminders.
Have a great rest of the day. See you all tomorrow!
Mrs. Gil
