Weekly Update: January 28th-February 1st

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Hi Parents,

I hope you have been staying warm this last week and were able to enjoy the snow day. It has been a crazy week with me out on Monday and Tuesday, no school on Wednesday, and late starts on Thursday and Friday. The boys and I took time to make Valentine's sugar cookies on our snow day together. There was definitely a lot of sprinkles used, many on the cookie and the plate underneath:) Cooper (my youngest) was our taste tester and they were a success! Now, that is all he is asking for..more cookies!

Language Arts:

This past week students read the fantasy story, Dogzilla by Dav Pikey. Students practiced the comprehension skill of identifying the cause and effect and the comprehension strategy of summarizing.

Spelling:  This past week students focused on spelling the vowel sounds heard in cook and moon.

Math:  The last part of this week we spent some time on extended multiplication facts. These are multiplication facts that involve multiples of 10, 100 and so on.

For example: We know 3x8=24 so:

                                                                       30x8=240

                                                80x3=240

                                                30x80=2,400

                                                800x3=2,400

Science: Thank you so much for your donations of fruits for us to investigate. The students were put into groups of three and were given three different fruits for their group. Each group member estimated how seeds they thought would be inside. The students were surprised to find that many fruits have a ton of seeds. Students compared the properties of seeds of all of the fruits. We investigated the pomegranate together and each student was offered the chance to try a taste test. Most students tried it, and many came back for seconds.

Reminders:

Optimist Reader Program

Students should still be working on their Optimist Good Reader Program reading and summaries, due February 15th. They are working on these in school but can also be working on these at home. The following genres are the ones that students need to be reading:

• Poetry
• Science Fiction/Fantasy
• Non-fiction (2)
• Folktale
• Historical Fiction
• Realistic Fiction
• Biography
• Award Winning

Valentine's Day

Students will be decorating a Valentine's Day bag at school (to hold their Valentine's). We have 23 students in our class, I will send out another email attaching a class list. Students can address each one individually or they can also just sign their name, either way is fine. I reminded students that if they are bringing Valentine's that they bring one for everyone in the class. I also told students if they would like to bring in items to decorate their Valentine's bags they could. Please wait to send these items until it gets closer.