Upcoming Dates to Remember:

• Tues. Feb. 7 - Skating 9:00 - 9:40
• Tues. Feb. 10th – Sock Hop $2.00
• Tues. Feb. 14th – Valentine’s Day Celebration (wear red or pink!) 
• Wed. Feb 15th – K- 2 pancake breakfast
• Tues. Feb. 21 - Skating 9:00 - 9:40
• Thurs. Feb. 23rd – Hot Lunch Orders Due
• Fri. Feb. 24th – PL Day – No School

This Week:

Take Home Books: New take home books will come home on Monday.  Please return them by Friday.  Remember that your child should be reading to you! Please focus on finger tracking (having your child point to each word as they read).

Skating

• We will be going to the York Arena to skate on Feb. 7 and 21.  Our skating time is 9:00 - 9:40.
• Safety guidelines require all students to wear a helmet!  
• Students are required to wear skates on the ice as well.  
• If you would like to join us and help tie some skates or come on the ice please let me know!  The more help, the better to get all those skates tied and maximize our ice time.

Literacy

Jolly Phonics: We have learned all our letters and sounds!  We will continue to review these throughout the school year.

• This week we are reviewing the short vowel sounds.  They are tricky and are found in the middle of all our CVC words we are going to practice reading and writing.

• Please watch the videos online at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCjJYB07aSU
• Please practice printing these letters at home as well as practicing the sounds and actions

Sight Words:

• This week we will learn: love, all
• We have learned: me, I, it, like, the, is, in, can, was, and, to, play, a, that, at, see, he, my, you, said, went, had, go
• Practice reading and writing these at home
• Challenge your child to find sight words they know in books
• All will also be our word family focus this week.  If we know how to spell all it can help us spell ball, call, fall, hall, tall, etc.

Reading Strategies:

• We will begin to learn reading strategies to help us read unknown words in books.
• Eagle Eye: He has really good eyesight and reminds us that we need to look at the pictures for clues about what the words might say.
• Lips the Fish: This week we will learn about Lips the Fish.  Fish have great lips! Lips the Fish reminds us that we need to get our lips ready to say the beginning sound of a word.  We often combine Eagle Eye and Lips the Fish.

Writing:

• This week students will conference with the teacher and choose a writing goal together based on their independent piece.
• We will look at student samples and practice giving them 2 stars (something the writer did well) and a wish (something you wish the writer did).  We will eventually transfer this to our own writing as a form of self-assessment.

Math

• All kindergarten classes are fortunate enough to work with the math lead teacher, Ms.Thomas!  
• Ms. Thomas will work with small groups of kids who have common math needs.

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