Valentine's Day is Coming

Next week we will be decorating our valentine bags. (Thank you Pooles) Students can start sending in their valentines on Monday. Please print the first name of the student that the valentine is for and rubber band or put them into a ziplock bag . We will let each child read and put their valentines into the bags. Here is a list of students:

Rocco                                Franklin                                Cole                         Malija

Orlando                             Embree                                 Noah                       Hannah

Jack                                   Eliza                                     Kennedy                  Sidney

Ava                                    Madison                              Haley                        Abigail

Kyla                                  Garrison                               Eunice                       Delaney

Joe                                    Luke                                    Wesley                      Camarria

Today we had groundhog cupcakes- thank you Lemanskis and Tacketts.  We made groundhog puppets, listened to nonfiction and fiction books on shadows and groundhogs, watched a video on the famous Pennsylvania groundhog and learned that he predicts spring will be here soon. Wally, the Raleigh groundhog says we'll have six more weeks of winter! Who will be right? The class thinks Wally will be right. I guess we'll have to wait and see who's right.

February 11th- early release (no center helpers needed)

February 18th- Science-go round, students bring bag lunches/drinks, no center helpers, although Garrison's mom may need help with a k-science activity she's working onl

February 21st- No school, teacher's workday

Reading Bags

• will come home about 3 times a week
• when they come home have your child read to you and ask them some of the retelling questions (that are on the front of your homework journal) These are oral questions- sorry for any confusion :)
• then have your child draw a picture related to the book and write some sentences. Use the pattern sentence from the book. These predictable, patterned sentences include lots of our sight words. Can your child think of another word to insert into the pattern that wasn't in the book? After correctly writing the pattern, ex: I like to eat ______. They can phonetically spell a new word for the blank.
• Please teach your child the habit of putting the book, journal, reading log back into the reading bag as soon as homework is completed and into their bookbag. It's important that these come back the next day. We have told the class to not take the reading bag out at afterschool, daycare, carpool line etc. but to wait until they are home with you. We want you to hear them read and assist in writing sentences. Thanks for your help.