Valentines Day this week!!!

Good afternoon parents.  Welcome back after another short week.  We have a couple of busy weeks ahead of us.  A letter went home today regarding Valentines Day this Friday.  There will be a sweet treat for all the students during lunch as well as hot lunch for those of you who ordered.  There will be another letter coming home Wednesday regarding our 100th day celebration that will happen next Wednesday, Feb 19th.

Language Arts

Spelling:

Our spelling words for this week are as follows:

we   find   put   want   house

Writing:

In honor of the Winter Olympics, for writing, we will be doing some Olympic themed writing activities over the next couple of weeks.  We will do some informative pieces, as well as some imaginative work as well.  We are still focused on making sure we have beginning capitals as well as ending periods.


Math

In math we are continuing our Monday math, Measurement.  Our focus today is comparing two items based on area.  For example, (the piece of paper has a smaller area than the desk).  We continue to focus on ensuring we are comparing the two objects to each other, stating both in our comparison.  The other measurements we have discussed and will be discussing are length (longer/shorter), height (taller/shorter), volume (what container could hold more), and size (bigger/smaller).  We will continue as well with addition to 12 over the remainder of February.

Science

We are continuing our 5 senses unit.  We have finished talking about sight and the eye, as well as taste and the tongue, and will be moving on to touch the rest of this week.

Health

We finished up our unit on bullying and we have just begun our unit on healthy eating and healthy activity.  The 4 food groups and recommended servings is the first thing we are discussion and will spend a couple of health classes on this.

Odds and Ends

Again, because the Winter Olympics are on, we will be following our Canadian athletes and cheering them on as best we can, looking at results of events.  The students are really excited to see things as they happen.  I have the results of the Men's moguls event streaming on our smart board at lunch today, and when the students saw that we finished with a Gold and a Silver medal they were so excited.  It is great to see the pride and excitement even at this age.

Also a reminder that next Monday, February 17, is Family Day and there is no school.  Another long weekend.

I hope you all have a wonderful week!

Mr. Aasen