VALENTINE'S DAY PARTY
The Valentine's Day party will be on Friday, February 12th (1:30-2:30). If your child has made his/her valentines, please feel free to send them in starting Monday, Feb. 8th. The children have done a great job decorating their Valentines bags, so we are ready to go! Hope you can all join us on the 12th for the party!
REMINDERS
Tuesday: Happy 101st day of school!
Tuesday folders come home. Please return signed Tuesday folders on Wednesday morning.
Wednesday: No library this week.
Friday: Valentine's Party in our classroom (1:30-2:30)
All homework is due.
HOMEWORK
Look for books in the book bags today. If you did not receive a book bag, I have not received last week’s book. Please return books for new books. (I will be charged $30 per missing book at the end of the year.) Please read, retell and discuss the story. I have also sent home a punctuation practice page. Look for math homework in tomorrow’s Tuesday folder.
READING and WRITING
This week we will wrap up our guided research unit. As a class, we have been researching about the objects in the sky such as the sun, the moon, and the stars. This week we will continue our research and learn more information about the stars and the clouds. We now know the research process. We start with questions in mind, go to the right sources to find out the answers to our questions, and record the new information in our own words and in an organized form so others can learn from our research too.
MATH
We will continue working on part, part, whole. Part, part, whole is the foundation for algebra and algebraic thinking. How can we find a missing part by knowing the whole and another part? What are the relationships between the parts? Some children may still think addition. For example, if Ms. Amiri wants to buy a book that is 12 dollars and she only has 7 dollars, how much more does she need to buy the book? Some might add on 7 and say 7+5=12, therefore she needs 5 more dollars. But we also want children to see the whole amount, and one part and think subtraction to find the missing part: 12-7=5
SOCIAL STUDIES
This week we will start our geography unit. We will learn about four cardinal directions and learn to locate places on the map using cardinal directions. We will create and use simple maps to describe the location of objects relative to other objects in the classroom and school. We will also locate Round Rock, Austin, Texas and United States on the map.
THANK YOU!