Week of January 21-25, 2019

Hello families! January is flying by and I haven't updated our newsletter in quite some time. We've been learning and working happily these past couple of weeks. Please read on to see what we have coming up:

If anyone can help with centers this Wednesday 1/23 from 8am until 8:50 please let me know!

Important Dates

Monday 1/21: No School, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr day. Enjoy the holiday!


Monday, 2/11: NO SCHOOL; Lincoln's Birthday

Wednesday, 2/13: 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 two extra homework assignments: First, they will need to bring in a collection of 100 items displayed in a creative way. They can get as creative as they want with this! On Tuesday I will share some ideas with the kids, so they can start thinking about their project. These are due no later than Friday, february 8. On the 100th day they will share their collection.
Second, this week I will send home ziploc baggies with kids' names on them. They will need to count 100 of some household item, put them in the bag and bring it to school . We will be using these for a few lessons while we count down to day 100.
We additionally need a few food items for this day for our 100th day trail mix.  I will have a sign up sheet for this in the back of the classroom beginning next week.

Thursday, 2/14 Valentine's day. We will have a small celebration after lunch. Kids can bring in Valentine cards for the class, but I ask that they only write their names rather than writing who each card is for. This eliminates A LOT of unnecessary confusion

Monday 2/18: NO SCHOOL; Presidents' Day Holiday

Phoebe's Got Talent--school talent show. Please see below from Mr. Henrickson, our talent show guy:

Attached is the tryout/information form for Phoebe’s Got Talent 2019 which includes three important dates; our show is open to all students K-6.  We have amazing and talented students, and the show is a lot of fun! Students will tryout during lunch in the library; after the forms have been collected, we will put out a tryout schedule.  As we make the difficult decision of who makes the show, we don’t expect a finished product for the initial tryout.  The tryouts usually last 1-2 minutes, and we are looking for organization and potential.  The key to making the show is the ability to demonstrate energy, enthusiasm, and fun! 

The show takes place on the stage at Sutter Middle School in front of a couple hundred people.  Will the act translate in that setting?  How can you make your act bigger? Louder? More energetic? That is what we are looking for! 

If you have any questions, feel free to get in touch with me.

Thanks.

Mr. Henrikson

Room 5

Homework Update

From now on kids will have fewer pages to complete each night with the expectation they put forth more effort on the pages they do have. They will continue to have daily math pages, which correspond to that day's teaching. Language arts pages will for the most part be writing pages. Kids will get two writing pages per week that they can break up any way they'd like. They should do their personal best on each of these writing pages. They should continue to sound out words. Phonetic spelling is what we are all about, so don't worry about spelling! As long as there are spaces between each word I can read kinder writing.

Language Arts 

This week kids will take a (listening) comprehension test as we finish our 4th language arts unit on authors and storytelling.

We will begin unit 5, in which we will be reading and learing about technology at home and school.

Math

This week we will work on making sets with one more and one less than a given set and continue to work on comparing numbers. 

Please don't hesitate to contact me with questions and/or concerns!

Thanks for reading, everyone!