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` February 8, 2019

Reading/Language Arts
In Language Arts our learning targets this week have included:
Dates to Remember: *Spelling focus: vowel long “y” at the end of words (i/e sound)
*contractions: We can read them but making them from the 2 words is
Feb. 11-14 Winter Olympics difficult!
Feb. 14 Valentine Party *Sounds made by CV words like no, hi, and he!
Feb. 18 No School/Winter Break *blending sounds, rhyming words
Feb. 19-22 Purple Power Week *recognizing verbs
Feb. 22 Purple Power BB Game *sequencing – Telling a story in order
*summarizing – Telling a brief overview of what a story is about
*Story Structure – including setting, characters, beginning, middle, end,
What’s New: problem, solution.
On the website:
What else: This week in writing we have worked on a realistic fiction
*Calendar story. We wrote about a place to play! We want to write about ourselves
*Miejer Field Trip Photos/Gifts but in fiction we have to use our names and not say “I”! We aren’t used to
*Christmas week photos that! Our writing has been suffering a bit from all the time off!
*Traditions Photos We also took our Unit Test (after 6 weeks) for Unit 2! Most of us did very
*Christmas in the Gym Photos well. I have reported your child’s score in their Friday Folder!
* Epic in the classroom!

Special Notes: Guest Readers


Math
*Valentine’s: Just a reminder to This week we tested on Unit 4 March is Reading Month at
students not to forget to put who objectives!
Waukazoo! It is a BIG DEAL! I do
the valentine is from on the back! lots of things to promote reading
In addition, we started Unit 5:
Students may bring them in any and one of them is to try to have
Place Value Situations. Our
day next week! We are looking learning targets for this week have a guest reader every school day
forward to our party! included: in March! Are you free one day?
*solving teen addition problems The times that work best for us
*February Theme: Compassion with unknown partners are 11:45 (perhaps you can tie it
We had our February assembly and *Solving teen subtraction
into your lunch) or 3:15! Baggy
our theme is compassion. We problems
We are focused on a variety of Book Mom’s we can use you
talked about how compassion is
strategies that we can use before you get started or right
when you show sympathy/empathy
for others suffering or misfortune! including: after! MARCH 1 is taken but any
This month WAUAKAZOO is *drawings other day right now is open!
*equations Email me and let me know what
showing compassion through our
*math mountains day works for you! You and your
support of Purple Power events! *counting on
We are looking for ways to show child can pick a favorite book
we care in other ways to like when Our goal is to know our teen math that is about 10-15 minutes long!
a friend gets hurt! Watch for facts as quickly as we know our WE also love grandparents, the
more about PURPLE POWER! facts to 10! mayor (if you know them), or
other special people!

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