Week of February 3-7, 2014

Gung Hay Fat Choy! Happy (Chinese) New Year! Ask your kids what they learned this week about Chinese new year. We read several books, learned how to say happy new year, and made Chinese dragons.

February is going to be a very busy month!
Here is what we have coming up:
Friday, February 7: PTO family dance, 6-8pm
Monday, February 10: Lincoln's Day holiday, no school
Thursday, February 13: 100th day of school (see below)
Friday, February 14: pink/red spirit free dress day; art lesson at 10:15; Valentine celebration (see below for more information)
Monday, February 17: President's Day; no school
February 24-28: Parent/Teacher conferences; dismissal will be at 12:20 from the cafeteria. Please see below for more info on conferences.

Language Arts
We are continuing the "Stick to It" unit this week in which we are learning about perseverance.
Letter/sound focus: short a, /h/, /p/
We are working a lot on blending sounds to read words and also listening for all the sounds in words in order to spell them. The kids are doing a fantastic job with this. Thank you so much for reading with your children every night.

Math
This week we begin Chapter 9 on time. We will focus on days of the week and calendars this week and then move to telling time on a clock next week.

100th day of school is Thursday February 13
Thank you to everyone who sent in something for our 100th day trail mix.
We still need two items:
popcorn
pretzel sticks
If you can send these to school before the 13th of February we would appreciate it. We need at least 320 of each item.

The kids will need to bring in a collection of 100 items to show the class. This can be as simple or elaborate as your child wants it to be. Some examples of simple collections are 100 pennies or 100 paper clips. Some more elaborate collections could be to use 100 pieces of macaroni to make an art project or 100 legos to make a lego figure. They will share their collection with the class on the 100th day. If you have questions about this please let me know.

We would also love to have 1-2 more parent helpers for our centers time (8:10-9:00) on the 100th day--February 13. Let me know if you'd like to help.

Parent/Teacher conferences are February 24-28. I will go over your child's trimester 2 report cards and answer any questions you have. Please watch for an email this week about scheduling your day and time.

Thanks for reading, everyone! Have a super weekend. Please let me know if you have questions or concerns. carrie.relles@gmail.com