Reading
We will start Theme 4 in our series which is entitled Amazing Animals.
The first story in the theme is a humorous story about a policeman who loves to give safety tips to school children but no one ever listens....until he brings a dog named Gloria.
The comprehension strategies we will cover are monitoring and clarifying, fantasy and realism, and cause and effect.
The vocabulary words for the week are accident, attention, audience, commands, officer, and safety.
The phonics skills will cover the r-controlled vowels of ar, or, ore, and the syllables -tion and -ture.
PBIS
We had a successful week learning about the new behavior program that will be implemented at Elizabeth Ide (Prairieview and Lakeview started in September). The children did a great job during the week and were rewarded with a juggling assembly on Friday.
MathWe will continue working on counting money. The children brought home their chapter test on the first part of our money unit. Please go over it with your child. I think they did well. In this chapter we will be adding and subtracting money.
We took the fact test. Many children did not do as well this time as they have done in the past. Time to get back to practicing those fact!
Student of the Week
Our special student was Paul. A few of his favorite things are the color blue, tigers, shrimp, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, swimming, playing outside and soccer. Paul's grandfather played soccer in the Olympics and two World Cups! It is no surprise that Paul wants to be a soccer player when he grows up.
A note went home about 100th day. Please take time to read it, believe it or not it is on the 7th of February!
Valentine's Day is coming. Our class party coordinator has asked for a volunteer to donate paper plates and two volunteers to donate juice boxes. Please let me know if you would be able to help out.
