Week of February 4th

Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend!

A few reminders about next week:

*Winter Clothing Drive: Please bring in at least one item of warm winter clothing to support the needy families of Santa Cruz County! Some of the needed items are: gloves, hats, socks, jackets, and travel size toiletries.

*100th Day: Please have your child bring in their collection of 100 items in a baggie for our 100th Day Celebration on Monday, February 4th!

*Sharing: This week will be an open sharing week! Your child can bring in ONE item of their choice!

Last Week's Learning:

Language Arts: Take Home Reading began and it sounds like it is a huge success! Remember reading the same book multiple times helps build students' fluency skills and reading confidence. We also are working on our short i word families (-it, -ig, -in, -ip, -ill, -ick). Your children are practicing their high frequency/sight words everyday! I will be sending home a list of these words soon with some game ideas for practicing them at home.

Math: We are continuing to focus on numbers 11 - 20 and will soon be moving on to an introduction to time and money. Please practice reading, writing, and counting from 1 - 30.

Science: Our "investigation" this week was called "Sink or Float?" Students learned what characteristics objects need to sink or float.

Theme: We have completed our study of winter, mittens, and snow and will be learning about many "February" themes! Rain, Valentine's Day, President's Day, etc....

As always, if you have any questions please call the school or email me at mandabug00@hotmail.com!

Have a great week,
Amanda