Here are this week's happenings and notices:
- Red PTA reading bookmarks were sent home after our last awards program. Those are due by February 7 for a free cookie along with the Eagle award. The PTA representative in our class for the awards said they will be strictly honoring that deadline so please get those in on or before February 7. The next awards ceremony will be Thursday, February 13 at 3:00. Notices will be sent home earlier that week.
- We will have a little Valentine's Day party on Friday, February 14 from 1:00-2:00. We will decorate heart-shaped cookies and deliver Valentines to classmates. If you signed up to help specifically with Valentine's day I will contact you by e-mail and ask for you to send something for help with the cookies. If you would like to come and help that would be welcomed too. We will decorate Valentine's Day bags in class--your child will NOT need to decorate and bring a box from home. I have done this for the last few years and I think it's helpful for parents at home. If you really want to decorate a box at home we could go that route also, but I want all students to have the same so if you really want to decorate at home let me know and if a majority feels that way I'll change it. Otherwise, when I send home a note about the party with a list of classmates for Valentines cards I will also ask for a small donation of 50cents to help cover the cost of the bags. I will send that note home next week so you can start thinking about or buying Valentine cards. Right now we have 20 students in our class if that helps for early buying.
- I just noticed on the PTA newsletter that Grandparents breakfast is February 4 from 8:00-8:40 in the cafeteria. I'm surprised I haven't seen a note to send home about that yet, but will double check on the accuracy of that notice and let you know or send home a note when I receive it.
- The PTA is also sponsoring a Talent show on the night of Monday, February 24 at 6:00. Sign-up notices will be sent home for that. This is optional of course and talents are usually limited to 90 seconds or so.
- In an effort to keep our PE experience safer the PE teacher and I have implemented a new plan of action. In short, if students get "three strikes" in one day they will be sent to student support for that remainder of PE for that day. If students get a strike or time out two days in a row (not three strikes you are out but two days in a row of inappropriate behavior or not listening to directions) then the following two times those students will go to student support instead of PE. If students are continually in student support then an alternative for PE may need to occur--possibly going to PE with another class for example.
- Last but not least in our learning we are almost done with Unit 4 in reading where we have learned all about r-controlled vowels, two-syllable words, and past-tense verbs along with writing several complete sentences using facts about a given topic. This week we will write sentences about Groundhogs. In math, we just completed unit 4 and started chapter 4 which concerns Addition and subtraction relationships so think the Fact families that I mentioned in our last newsletter. Students will look at equations with missing addends or parts and will be able to figure out what belongs using their knowledge from addition and subtraction relationships. For example 13 - ? = 7 students may count up from 7 to 13 to find the missing part. They may use another subtraction fact 13 - 7 to get the missing part or use their knowledge of 6 + 7 = 13 to figure out the missing part. We too are finishing up our unit on Early world civilizations. Today we just learned about the sphinx from Ancient Egypt. We will turn our studies to Animal Habitats and writing descriptive paragraphs in the next month.
Whew! That was long this time--please remember to turn in your SEP notice.
Have a nice Tuesday and Happy Reading!
Mrs. Armstrong
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