Quick recap of the week and upcoming events

I hope you've enjoyed the many blog posts this week.  Since I have blogged more than normal the last few days, today's will be a quick overview and some important dates for you to mark on your calendar.

Dates/Things to remember:

*Turn in January Reading Logs ASAP

*February 6th- NO SCHOOL (teachers will be working on report cards)

*February 10th:

        Report cards will be sent home in Friday Folders. 

        Six Flags Reading Logs MUST be turned in by today in order to earn their free ticket

        Yearbook order forms due

        Send in a SOLID colored bag by today (8x10 in size) to decorate for Valentines

*February 13th & 16th-Parent-Teacher Conferences

*February 17th-NO SCHOOL

*February 20th-NO SCHOOL/President's Day

A look at our learning this week...

Fundations: We are learning how vowels have two sounds, long and short.  We are also learning about the silent e on the end of words.  Our new word wall word, like, has a silent e.

Shared Reading-We read the books The New Forest Path and I Like.  They featured our word wall words like and by.  We learned that some words "don't follow the rules" and can't always be sounded out.  We discussed the silent e on the word like and how by sounds like it should be spelled bi, but really it is by. 

Next week's new spelling words: be, up

Math-The STEAM bus was a fun way to end our measurement unit.  We spent the rest of the week doing end of trimester math assessments that we will share with you at conferences. Next week we will begin a unit on addition!

Writing-On Wednesday we took our first narrative writing assessment.  I look forward to sharing these with you at parent-teacher conferences. It's always amazing to see how much they have grown as writers since the beginning of the school year!  We have worked on writing narratives (real life stories about things we do in our lives) since the beginning of Kindergarten.  

Beginning next week we will shift our focus to informational/non-fiction writing. We will focus on this type of writing from now until spring break.  We will begin by learning about penguins.  We will write non-fiction "books" sharing the facts we have learned about penguins.

Have a great weekend!