Hello! ANNOUNCEMENTS!!

Four big events coming up in the next few weeks!!

February 11th we have another field trip to the Laurels Nursing Home. Sign up if you are interested in going with us.

February 14th we have our Valentines Reading Party at 1:15. We need lots of adults on hand to help us read our Valentine couplets. Look to sign up for this in a separate sign up genius from Stephanie Mack.

February 20th we have our Artist Gallery Crawl in our classroom. All parents/Grandparents welcome (School policy says siblings should remain in their class. See me for exceptions, please.) Our time is 11:00-11:45. Look for another sign up genius for fancy artist snacks and juice to accompany our gallery crawl.

February 25 we have a trip to Charlotte to see the Children's Theater production of A Cajun Red Ridinghood. I only need 5 volunteers ($7-$8 plus parking fee) to join us. Your child will need to ride to and from the theater with you to relieve crowding on the bus.

A sign up genius for several of these events is here : www.SignUpGenius.com/go/10C0C4FA5A82BA4FF2-februaruy

We are still playing catch up from all of the snow days! Some kids are finishing Mary Cassat pictures, some are starting on soap carvings for Michelangelo and some are sketching teachers. We will hopefully begin Monet soon!

Literacy:
We have started a new writing unit this week. We started writing "how to" books." How to skate, how to make cookies, how to make a valentine....these are several of the great ideas!

We also learned a new site word this week....she! Please make sure you are reviewing these site words. We see these in our books quite often!

We continued to study CVC words and review what these are. We found some in our reading and played several fun games with them.

Math:
We continued working on our range cards on Tuesday. There are so many different combinations we can make to get to our target numbers. We also continue to work on story problems each morning. We started working with a hundreds chart and even rolled a dice 100 times to see how many times we could get the same number! This helps us with number sense, quickly recognizing different patterns and counting!

We have a short week this week. We have a half day Thursday and no school on Friday. I hope everyone is almost finished with their valentine couplets! Valentine's Day is almost here!

Hugs,
Mrs. Schultz