January Newsletter

January News Letter

Upcoming Dates

January 19^th-School Closed MLK Day

January 23^rd-School Closed 3 hours early

Monday 26^th-School Closed for Students

Reminders

Mon. and Fri. are P.E. days: wear sneakers!

Healthy snacks no candy.

Coats, gloves and hats everyday please, we go outside for recess.

Phonics:

We continue to work on digraphs and blends.  We will be spending more time on nouns, adjectives, and verbs.  Students will continue to work on punctuation marks and capitalizing sentences. 

Reading:

Students are progressing on their reading comprehension and fluency.  Students are refining their skills in identifying beginning, middle and end, main idea and details, and story elements.  Unit 2 was spent dissecting non-fiction texts.  Students are becoming experts at identifying non-fiction text features.

Math:

My mathematicians are working on their addition, subtraction and number sense skills.  We are moving onto unit 4 which consists of measuring and counting numbers!



Animal Friday

The Great Horned Owl

We learned facts about the owl, for example, they don't really have horns!

Students made their owls and then we read Owl Moon.

 

 

 



Reindeer Applications!

One of my favorite things to do every year is our classroom reindeer applications.  Each student applied to become one of Santa's reindeer.  They said what would make them an excellent reindeer and why they would want to work for Santa.  The result: the cutest looking reindeers in the world!!

 



Celebrating Different Holidays

 

 

Students sequenced the making of Latkes.  Yummy!!

 

 

Happy Kwanza

Our class made a Kwanza wreath with the three colors of Kwanza: red, green, black.

 

 

 



Polar Express

My favorite book to read this time of year is The Polar Express.  Students were given a ticket and earned their way onto our classroom "train"(unfortunately, I forgot to take pictures).   Their tickets were punched and it was time to read the story.  Everyone enjoyed listening to the story and getting their own bell.  Afterwards, students wrote their wish for the first gift of Christmas while sipping on hot cocoa.