Hopefully this week we will be able to celebrate Groundhog's Day on Tuesday because I have some fun books to share with my friends, but I guess we will see if the weather forecast comes true or not!
This week we will also be getting ready for Valentine’s Day.
This year students at Meadow Lane are only allowed to bring non-edible items to share with their friends - there were some great suggestions in the Meadow Lane newsletter these past few weeks. We have 21 kids in my room and children are just asked to put their name on it so we know who it is from. You can start bringing Valentine's next Monday, Feb. 8th. If you have any questions about this please just let me know!
In reading we will be reviewing all of the letters and words
we have learned so far. But we will be learning some new vocabulary words and
they are safe, prepare, notice, celebration, and enough. Our essential question
is “How can you stay safe in bad weather?” and we will be discussing this and
also practicing this at school. We will also be reading “Waiting Out the
Storm”, “Rainbow Crow”, and “Be Safe in Bad Weather”. During guided reading
your child will either read “Bad Weather” or “Getting Ready” and we will read “Mack
and Ben” in our crabby books. We are really becoming such good readers – we
know the difference between genres of books, we can visualize, make predictions
and find key details, and we can even make connections between stories. This
week we will be talking a lot about question words that start with “who, what,
when, where, and why”.
In math we will be telling story problems using fruits and
vegetables, and comparing two groups of numbers using the words more and fewer.
We will also be looking at numbers 11-20 on our counting mats and will be using
our teen equations cards and discussing our teen numbers. We will also be
reviewing different shapes and how you can put them together to make new shapes
and practicing patterns.
In writing we will be working on adding details to our
stories and using transitions words to write about what happens in our stories.
We are also working hard on using good handwriting and writing our last name! I
am amazed at some of the sentences my friends are able to write!
We finished up our weather and seasons unit and will start
learning more about transportation! We will be talking about how you can get from one place to another either by land, air, or water!
The Meadow Lane Science Fair is next Thursday, Feb. 11th
and I would love to see you all there if you don’t have any plans for that
evening – I understand you may not want to do a project this year but I urge
you to come and check it out. Henry, Lily and I will be doing a project I hope– the
topic is still yet to be decided… seeing as we can not agree on anything yet
(my children can be quite stubborn and opinionated :) and don't love all the ideas mommy has given) two years ago we
researched Elk and found some fun facts and pictures to share and last year we did an experiment with balloons and vinegar and it was so
much fun that we will definitely be doing something again this year for the
Science Fair! If you have any questions about this please let me know!
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