Monday 1 February 2016

February Newsletter 2016

It’s hard to believe that it’s already February! We had a lot of fun learning about penguins and had some amazing research reports to conclude our unit. Our next big theme will be snowmen, including writing the directions to build one and what might happen if they come to life at night!  Our phonics focus continues to be long vowels and we are buzzing along with sight words. Thanks for your continued support with the home reading program! The kids are jumping up levels and it is exciting to see the light come on!  Report cards will be coming up soon in March and we will be looking closely at reading behaviours and practising, practising, practising the newly acquired strategy of Chunky Monkey (looking for small chunks that we already know in words to help us decode) and introducing Flippy Dolphin (trying the short vowel sound and if it doesn’t make sense flipping to the long vowel sound).  

We have started our Science building unit with some fun building centres and will continue our learning by making cabins, towers, bridges, and so much more! If you have any small styro foam plates, tin pie plates, plastic containers, or cardboard tubes, please send them to school up until Friday Feb. 5th.  

This month we have two  big days to celebrate: The 100th day of school and Valentines on Friday Feb. 12th.  We will be having  a combined party on the afternoon of Feb. 11th which is the day to send valentines. We have 24 students and I’ve enclosed a class list.  Thanks once again to our generous party snack moms! 

Our focus in Math is our big numbers to 100 unit!  The kids have really got the idea of counting on and counting back and our next strategy will be doubles facts coming soon. We also started a new schedule of stations called CAMPP where C=computers, A=alone, M=Manipulatives, P=partners, and P=problem solving. The kids are doing really well working within this framework to practise number skills to 100. They’re working on maintenance of counting skills by 1,2, 5, and 10 to 20+ , ordering numbers to 100, filling in missing numbers to 100, 1 more/1 less , addition & subtraction!


DATES TO REMEMBER!
Feb. 2 Happy Groundhog Day!
Feb. 3 Library day is every Wednesday
Feb. 3 Winter Walk 2:05pm
Feb. 5 Show and tell day is every Friday
Feb. 11 8:30 Spirit Assembly WEAR RED!
Classroom Valentines party pm/Valentine exchange
Feb. 12 100th Day Celebration in the gym at 8:45-11:15
Feb. 8-12th Random Acts of Kindness Week
Feb. 15 NO SCHOOL : FAMILY DAY
Feb. 16& 17 NO SCHOOL: FALL BREAK
Feb. 18 &19 NO SCHOOL: TEACHER CONVENTION
Feb. 23 Hot  Lunch Day Gr. 1-3

February Sight Words 

Feb1-5
what
white
who
will
with

Feb 8-12
yes
after
again
an
any

Feb 15-19
No school

Feb 22-26
ask
as
by
could
every

Valentines Day Class List

Addie*
Addy*
Ako*
Ava*
Calum
Carter
Colbie*
Cindy*
Ethan
Gavin
Isabelle*
Lincoln
Mackenzie*
Madoc
Amelia*
Owen
Patience*
Ronin
Shauna*
Taylor*
Thomas
Treyton
Zander
Zoe*
11 boys + 13 girls* =24total

Sight Word Mastery List 
(have your child read this list to you and practise words he/she find challenging-remember these words are to be recognized by sight and not sounded out)
and away         a                      say
big blue can         soon
come         down         find she
for funny         go so
help here         in that
it jump         little there
Look         make         me they
My not went         this
One         play red to
Run said see well
The three         to under
Two we up want
Where yellow you was
All I is
but did eat
Came         do four
Get good         have
He into like
Must        new no
Now        on out
Our please pretty
Ran ride saw


Doubles are a great mental math strategy to help children quickly recall addition facts. Once they learn doubles, it’s an easy jump to doubles plus one or doubles minus one. Here’s a little poem to help them remember! We will be starting these near the end of the month, so if you want a jump start, here they are!

1+1=2  Two balloons 1 pink, 1 blue
2+2=4  Four seashells on the seashore
3+3=6  Six houses made of bricks
4+4=8  Four wheels on each roller skate
5+5=10 Ten fingers digging in the garden
6+6=12 Six plus six equals a dozen, painting easter eggs with my cousin!
7+7=14 Fourteen jewels for the queen
8+8=16 The legs on 2 spiders for Halloween!
9+9=18 9 blue and 9 green jellybeans!
10+10=20 The double of 10 will give you plenty!

My name is ____________________and yes! I can come on the Winter Walk on Feb. 3rd at 2:05.

My name is __________________________and yes! I can help supervise 100th day stations on Feb. 12 from 8:45-11:15 in the gym.  Our stations are Lego Building 100/ and 100 Day Crowns.  We need 2 supervisors for this day, more are welcome if you’d like to share the time with another parent. 

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