February Newsletter

I can hardly believe that it is already February!  The days, weeks and months have been zooming by since the start of the school year in August!  We are almost to the 100^th day of school!

The rest of the year will go by just as quickly as the past 5 months! As we start to turn our focus onto how we’d like to finish the year off strong, start preparing yourselves for the pace to pick up just a bit.  There is still a lot to cover in first grade!  Make sure your children are getting a good night’s rest so they are ready for the days ahead!

This month, we are focused on friendship, and how to be kind and caring to those around us!

Have wonderful month:)

February Highlights

Academic Focus Areas:

-Addition and subtraction facts

-Math story problems

-Telling time to the hour and half hour

- Writing -Thank You Letters and Friendly Letters

Identifying a text’s plot, summarize and make predictions

-Reading about Black History

Groundhog’s Day

-Dental Health Month

-Presidents Day Lessons

-100^th Day of School

-Phonics and word recognition: r controlled

or, ore, er, ir, ur

-Contractions ‘s, ‘ve, ‘re

-Penguin Science

Friendship Celebration

We will be participating in the Friendship Dance from 1:05pm-1:35pm. Following the dance, we will pass out our Valentine’s cards and read them. Students are welcome to bring Valentine’s Cards. If your student chooses to bring Valentine’s, they must bring one for every student in the class. Last week we made a list of class names. The list went home on Friday. Please feel free to send them to school on any day this week.  Parents/guardians are welcome to join us for the Friendship dance at 1:05pm and/or the card reading celebration at 1:45pm.

Telling Time

Please encourage your student to practice telling time to the hour and half hour at home. We will be sending home paper clocks for students to practice at home.

Coming soon….

The weeks to come at a glance and friendly reminders.

·       Friendship Dance 1:05-1:35 – February 12

·       Valentine’s Day Celebration in classroom 1:45-2:30 – February 12

·       No School – February 15 –

President’s Day

·       Late Opening – February 17     

·       I will be out of the classroom on February 10^th, 16^th and 23^rd. Please speak with your student about appropriate behavior when I am gone.