Feb. 11- Feb. 15

I hope everyone had a nice Valentine's Day!  Thank you to Ms. Favela and Mrs. Laird for organizing and running a fun party!  This week we said hello to a new student to our classroom.  Welcome to May Watts, Mary!

The letter of the week was "K" and our sight words were "come" and "one."  We read the story Kind Bidgood in the Bathtub and imagined and wrote about what we would do in the bathtub if we were like King Bidgood.  We read many watched many different versions of King Midas.  In this folklore, we learned that it is not good to be greedy but to be happy with the little things.  One student said, "If you have love, you ARE rich."  I love that!

A few activities we did we centered around Valentine's Day.  We read a book about adjectives and went on a heart hunt.  We wrote adjectives to describe where certain hearts were found in the classroom.  We worked cooperatively to solve a valentine math problem.  We realize that not ALL math problems need for us to write an equation to get the answer.  We practiced our counting by ones, twos, fives, and tens in our heart sequence paper.

Also in math, we practiced numeral writing, solving word problems by showing our thinking and picture, writing an equation, and labelling the answer, and recognizing more and less.  We played a challenging game on the website abcya (see link to the left).  Go to 1st, math, and click on the owl 100 grid.  This reinforces numbers in relation to other numbers.  Notice what strategies your child uses to find the numbers on the grid.

We learned a little bit about our first president, George Washington and made a silly craft to decorate our room.

We had a GREAT Poetry Assembly put on by our PTA.  The children enjoyed experiencing the rhythm and rhyme AND FUN in poetry.

Remember that there is NO SCHOOL on Monday and Tuesday of next week!  Enjoy the long weekend!