Thursday Wrap-Up

Happy Thursday everyone! We wrapped up another jam-packed day of learning and catch up. Be sure to have your child work through the Question of the Day today. We have been doing a great deal with mixed sets of addition and subtraction and today we went for the ultimate challenge. We started with a given number and manipulated the number through addition and subtraction to get to the final answer. Our kids used many different strategies with their partners to determine their answers. I was so proud of what they could do! YAY!

Today's story was "Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch". Check your child's comprehension of this read-aloud to see if they can give you a summary of the book. They should be able to tell you about two or three different characters in the story as well as the problem and solution.

We used our newly learned word, "perspective" and introduced two new words "self" and "portrait" to begin creating our self-portraits in chalk. The kids are using chalk and learning to blend and shade while creating beautiful portraits of their face. We also took this lesson to learn techniques on drawing the human face. We talked about symmetry, mid-line, and other fancy words to help us begin these fabulous faces. We hope they will be completed for conferences next week.

This week in guided reading, we reviewed contractions. Your child should be able to easily tell you what a contraction is, as well as identify contractions and separate the two words that were squeezed together. We also focused on dental health and teeth. A TIME for Kids is coming home this week about animal teeth. Several of our groups used what they learned about animal teeth and created a Venn Diagram to compare their teeth to animal teeth. Be looking for that to come home tomorrow, too!

A few reminders for our next 2 weeks:

1. Valentine's Day party is MONDAY February 14th! If your child would like to hand out Valentine's Day cards to their friends, please be sure that each member of our class family is included. The children are bringing home a word search with the names of all our class members. Please use this for your list at home while you are creating cards. Just in case you loose your list, our class members are:
Elias
Kye
Dylan
Emily
Baillis
Raeleigh
Sadie
Jackson
Jada
James
David
Cheyenne
Connor
Rosa
Kassidy
Lanah
Kemper
Ms. Beverage

Some other teachers your child may want to include are: Mr. Mortenson, Mrs. VanRheen, Mrs. Neely, Mrs. King, Mrs. Frick, Mrs. Rodriguez, Mrs. Holle, Mrs. Hunt, Mrs. O'Toole, Mrs. Keister and Mrs. Morgovnik.

2. EARLY DISMISSAL on Wednesday February 16. We will dismiss at 1pm for conferences!

3. NO SCHOOL Monday February 21--President's Day.

4. Spring Pictures and Class Picture on Wednesday February 23!

Have a great evening! Don't forget to have your child work on their Valentines!