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A BIG thank you to everyone that donated food for our staff meeting! I can honestly say it was the best spread we have had all year! Another BIG celebration of the participation in the Book Fair! Our school family raised a lot of money for our school. THANK YOU! Attention! Showcase! We are excited to announce our Habitat Showcase! On Monday March 6th from 2:10-3:00 we are inviting all adult family members to come and see what their student has learned about habitats and the rainforest! Make sure to sign up here so that we can have your tag printed and ready for you! www.SignUpGenius.com/go/10C0D4AADAF2FABFA7-habitat New Homework! - If you student received the same list as last week it means that they are still struggling with one or more of the words on that list. We are sending home sight word lists for students to practice each week. This is in order to help build reading fluency. In order to move up to the next list students will need to know all 10 words by sight (no sounding out). Other students have been given a reading log to complete 3 times a week. Upcoming Dates: Feb. 24th - The Helpful Forest Hosts FRIDAY SING Feb. 26th - Conscious Discipline Workshop 1 Feb. 27th - Tentative Field Trip Day - More info to come. March. 3rd - Dr. Seuss Day! March 6th - Habitat Showcase! 2:10-3:00 March 13th-17th - Spring Break - NO SCHOOL March 26th - Conscious Discipline Workshop 2 April 9th - Conscious Discipline Workshop 3 April 14th - The Helpful Forest Hosts FRIDAY SING Literacy - We are focusing on sight words, digraphs, and consonant blends. In writing we continue to write facts about the rainforest! Math - Artists - Finishing up Subtraction. Next unit will be combiting addition and subtraction. Watch out for those signs! Scientists - Manipulating numbers by 1 and 10 more and less. Ask them about Base Ten Blocks! Here is a cool website that you can use at home. http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/mathematics/ebook_assets/vmf/VMF-Interface.html Theme - We are moving up in the world! On to the Canopy! Ask your student what lives in the canopy. We have a lot of pictures this week of Friendship Day, the Book Fair, and our MAGLAB visit! PTA Update:
Wishing you well, Ms. Claire & Ms. Jenny
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BIG THANK YOU to our class volunteers that helped with our Book Fair decorations! Take a look below at how wonderful if turned out! **Last Minute Dress up Day** TOMORROW, Wednesday, February 15th we are going to be having a special guest come and read to our class in preparation for our classes visit to the book fair. We are encouraging students to dress up as if they were going to camping or do something outdoorsy. Sorry for the late notice this is completely optional so no pressure! Friendship Day! We are going to be celebration Valentine's day as Friendship day on Friday, February 17th. Students are welcome to bring in cards, pencils, or other trinkets for their school family members. We are not allowing candy or food to be passed out. This will be a smaller celebration with only our class. We will have special activities and games to celebrate our wonderful connections! New Homework! - Most students will have a new part to their homework. We are sending home sight word lists for students to practice each week. This is in order to help build reading fluency. In order to move up to the next list students will need to know all 10 words by sight (no sounding out). Other students have been given a reading log to complete 3 times a week. A few students were at a higher list than expected and will receive their lists next week. Upcoming Dates: Feb 14-17 - Scholastic Book Fair Feb. 17th - Friendship Day! Feb. 24th - The Helpful Forest Hosts FRIDAY SING Feb. 26th - Conscious Discipline Workshop 1 Feb. 27th - Tentative Field Trip Day - More info to come. March. 3rd - Dr. Seuss Day! March 13th-17th - Spring Break - NO SCHOOL March 26th - Conscious Discipline Workshop 2 April 9th - Conscious Discipline Workshop 3 April 14th - The Helpful Forest Hosts FRIDAY SING Special Message from our Class Parent: Hello class family! February 16th, 2017 is our turn to appreciate our teachers and staff by signing up to provide snacks for their staff meeting! Please sign up here (https://www.sascpta.org/Volunteer.aspx) and scroll down till you see our class name, and drop your items off at car-pickup or the front desk on the date above. Thanks so much for your generosity! - Tanya Ilangantileke, Class Parent Literacy - We are focusing on sight words, digraphs, and consonant blends. In writing we continue to write facts about the rainforest! Math - Artists - Subtration fun! Artists are learning about how to subtract numbers 0-10 Scientists - Place value! Scientists are focusing on the hundreds, tens, and ones place. Theme - We are moving up in the world! On to the Understory! Check out below for some examples of our students publishing their writing on the computers and our special reading guests from the book fair! PTA Update:
Wishing you well, Ms. Claire & Ms. Jenny Thank you everyone that was able to donate or volunteer for our 100th Day of School celebration. It was a total success! Look below for some great pictures! Friendship Day! We are going to be celebration Valentine's day as Friendship day on Friday, February 17th. Students are welcome to bring in cards, pencils, or other trinkets for their school family members. We are not allowing candy or food to be passed out. This will be a smaller celebration with only our class. We will have special activities and games to celebrate our wonderful connections! Needed - Tissues! We just opened our last box this week. If you have any to donate our runny noses would greatly appreciate them! Make sure to sign up to come help out with our Blue Folders. We have quite a few Tuesday's that are just waiting to be filled! www.SignUpGenius.com/go/10C0D4AADAF2FABFA7-phoenix Upcoming Dates: Feb 8th - Chick-Fil-A Share Night - See you there! Feb 12th - African American Read-In at LeRoy Collins Library - See you there! Feb 14-17 - Scholastic Book Fair Feb. 17th - Friendship Day! Feb. 24th - The Helpful Forest Hosts FRIDAY SING Feb. 26th - Conscious Discipline Workshop 1 Feb. 27th - Tentative Field Trip Day - More info to come. March. 3rd - Dr. Seuss Day! March 13th-17th - Spring Break - NO SCHOOL March 26th - Conscious Discipline Workshop 2 April 9th - Conscious Discipline Workshop 3 April 14th - The Helpful Forest Hosts FRIDAY SING African American Read-In at LeRoy Collins Library. This Sunday, February 12, 2017, there is an African American Read-In at the Leon County Main Library, in Celebration of Black History Month . The afternoon will be filled with various community leaders and volunteers that will be reading from poems, passages, plays, speeches, and children's books by African American Authors. Special Message from our Class Parent: Hello class family! February 16th, 2017 is our turn to appreciate our teachers and staff by signing up to provide snacks for their staff meeting! Please sign up here (https://www.sascpta.org/Volunteer.aspx) and scroll down till you see our class name, and drop your items off at car-pickup or the front desk on the date above. Thanks so much for your generosity! - Tanya Ilangantileke, Class Parent Literacy - Different groups are working on different parts of speech including, nouns, verbs, prefixes, synonyms, antonyms, etc. In writing scientists are continuing to learn how to stretch our their writing to make it more interesting. Artists are focusing on writing conventions, spaces, lowercase letter formation, and proper use of periods. Math - Artists - Scientists are flying through Unit 7, the last unit in the first book! This unit focuses on counting to 120 in different ways as well as place understanding place value of the hundreds, tens, and units place. Theme - We continue to learn more and more about the rain forests. This week we are focusing on an animal that lives on the forest floor. Ask you student what kinds of animals live there! PTA Update:
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