Week of February 24-28, 2014

We had another awesome week in room 4. Thanks to everyone who helped out this week and last, especially with the 100th day of school and Valentine's Day. The kids really enjoyed themselves!

Here is what we have coming up:

Monday-Friday, February 24-28: Parent/Teacher conferences. Dismissal will be at 12:20 from the cafeteria. I will walk the kids to lunch at 11:50, so if you'd like to pick them up before they eat, you can at that time.
I am looking forward to meeting with all of you to talk about your child's progress. I will have the 2nd trimester report card to share with you. Please see the schedule I sent last week below.
This week we are participating in the Pennies for Patients fundraiser. Kids can bring in change to put in the box at the back of our room. Money raised goes to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

Friday, 2/28: art lesson; 10:15-11am. We'd love to have 1-2 more parent helpers. Please let me know if you'd like to help out. This is also a free dress day.

Monday, 3/3: We will celebrate Dr. Seuss's birthday (which is 3/2). Your child is encouraged to bring in Dr. Seuss books this week to share with the class. Please clearly label the books with your child's name so we will be sure to get them back to the correct people.

Monday, 3/10: art lesson; 10-10:45 am. We'd love to have some parent helpers!

Monday, 3/31: art lesson; 10-10:45 am. Ditto!

Language Arts
This week we start a new unit, "Red, White and Blue," all about patriotism. We will be learning about American symbols like the flag, the bald eagle, and some national monuments.
Letter/sound focus: /n/, /d/, and short o.
We will continue working on blending sounds to make words and using sounds to spell words. We will also focus on orally changing sounds in words to make new words. For example: "What word do we get when we change the /h/ in hot to /n/? Not"
In writing this week we will write about some of our favorite Dr. Suess books.

Math
This week we start chapter 10 on solid shapes. We will work on naming and comparing solid shapes such as a sphere, cone, cube, cylinder, rectangular prism, and triangular prism.
As always, we review and preview other concepts daily with board math.

Winter Conference Schedule

Relles

	Monday 2/24	Tuesday 2/25	Wednesday 2/26	Thursday 2/27	Friday 2/28
7:30 am	Arthur	Matthew	Jared	Aundrea	Paige
12:30 pm	Mallory	Isla	Ryder	Kori	Ruby
1:00 pm	Juliet	Madeline	Travis		Mariana
1:30 pm	William	Danny	Camille	Gavin	Weston
2:00 pm	Rola	Manroop	Chance	Claire	Caleb
2:30 pm		Jaden		Karly	XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
3:00 pm	Gabriel	Madalynn	XXXXXXXXXXXXXX	XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX	XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
3:30 pm	Olivia	Bridget	XXXXXXXXXXXXXX	XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX	XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
4:00 pm	Mia	Cameron	XXXXXXXXXXXXXX	XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX	XXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Thanks for everything, families! Have a great weekend. I will see you next week at your conference. Please let me know if you have questions or concerns.
carrie.relles@gmail.com