Short Week

Hello everyone.  I hope you all had a great "unplugged" Family Day.  There are a few reminders for this week.  Tomorrow, Wednesday, Feb 22nd, is bullying awareness day.  We are dressing up in pink to stand up against bullying.  If your child has pink, ask them to come to school wearing pink.

Friday, Feb 24th, is PJ and pancake day.  We will be cooking a pancake breakfast for all students and staff.  The school doors will be open to students at 8:00am, with pancakes being served shortly there after.  Wear your PJ's to school as well.  I will allow 1 stuffie to be brought to class as well if your child chooses. 

Language Arts

Writing:

I have seen some great journal writing the past few weeks.  The students are really showing off their writing abilities.  The writing attributes we still focus on from day to day are writing complete sentences, including beginning capital letters and ending punctuation.  Week by week, the students sentences are improving. We will be leaning some new writing techniques over the next few weeks to add suspense to our writing as well as how to choose words that add very descriptive detail. They will be building on the story beginning and story ending techniques that we have learned to create captivating stories.

Math

Our measurement unit in math is moving right along. The students are now able to compare two items using terms like longer, taller, lighter, wider, and smaller.  Last week we talked extensively about time, but not telling time with clocks, telling time with a calendar.  We focused on days of the week and months of the year.  The students need to know the days of the week, starting with the first day, Sunday, and their proper order. Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.  They need to understand that there are 7 days in a week.  They must also be able to recognize the months of the year (12), the correct order, and what comes first/last, etc.  They should be able to answer a question like "What month comes 3 months after July?"  The answer being October.  They should also be able to find days on a calendar.  For example, If I asked, what day of the week is February 27th, 2017, they should be able to answer Monday.  This is assuming a calendar is in front of them. We will continue this week to work on days of the week, months of the year, and reading calendars.  I encourage all of your children to talk about days of the week, when appointments are, how many months until school ends, at home as much as possible.

In Science, we continue to study our unit "Exploring Liquids".  In Social Studies, we continue to study "Looking at People" and different traditions throughout the 3 communities.

I hope everyone has a great last week or so of February.

Mr. Aasen