Hello Room 4 families,
It's hard to believe it's already February! Here is what we have coming up:
Important Dates
Monday, February 9: NO SCHOOL; Lincoln's birthday holiday
Thursday, 2/12: the 100th day of school. The kids are super excited to celebrate the number 100 and everything they have learned so far this year! During the days leading up to this the kids will have an extra homework assignment: they will need to bring in a collection of 100 items. They can get as creatice as they want with this! I will talk to the kids about some ideas. On the 100th day they will share their collection.
We additionally need a few food items for this day for our 100th day trail mix. Thank you to those who have volunteered to send food. We still need the items on the list below. Please let me know if you'd like to send in any of the following prior to 2/12:
popcorn (we need at least 350 pieces)
a box of Chex cereal
a large bag of yogurt raisins
goldfish crackers
a large bag of dried cranberries
One more thing: I would love to have 2-3 more parent helpers for our morning centers that day (8:10-9:00). Please let me know if you'd like to help.
THANK YOU!
Friday, 2/13 (NOTE DATE CHANGE): Field Trip to Luther Burbank High School for the Sacramento Childrens' Theater play. We will leave at 9:15 am and return around 11:30. We are limited to 3 parent chaperones for this, and I am hoping to give families who didn't get to come on the pumpkin patch field trip a chance to go on this one. Thank you for understanding!
Look for a permission slip this week.
When we return from the play, we will have our Valentine celebration.
For Valentine's Day, kids can bring Valentine cards filled out with their names, but please don't put the recipients' names on each card. This creates chaos when passing them out!
For this celebration I'd love to have about 6 parent helpers. Please let me know if you would like to come in from about 11:45-1:00pm.
The 13th is also a free dress spirit day. Kids can come in free dress as long as they wear Red, pink, or white.
Later that evening is the PH PTO family dance. It's a very fun event, so plan on attending with your family! More details to follow.
Monday, 2/16: NO SCHOOL; Presidents' Day
Friday, 2/20-Friday, 2/27 Shortened days/ parent teacher conferences. Dismissal will be at 11:50 or 12:20 from the cafeteria. Look for an email about this soon.
Language Arts
We are wrapping up our unit on informational text today. The kids have learned a lot about the differenences between story books and informational books, and (I think) they enjoyed doing it! Their completed research projects are looking great. They will be up in the classroom next week.
During February and March we will focus on opinion writing. Our cumulative project will be to write a book recommendation.
Letter/sound focus: /p/, short i, and /l/.
Math
The kids did a FANTASTIC job with the subtraction unit. Most students scored 100% on their chapter test. We just started our next chapter on more adding and subtracting. This chapter focuses on the many ways to make numbers 4 through 10 using addition and subtraction.
Thank you for reading, everyone! Please let me know if you have questions or concerns.
carrie.relles@gmail.com
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