The Week of Feb. 1

 

Upcoming Dates

**Please bring any valentines to school by Friday, February 12th**

Students are welcome to make valentines for their classmates and bring individually/pre wrapped treats to share. Items will be quarantined until Feb. 15th.

February Book Order Due

Feb. 19

Order online or send a CHECK made out to Scholastic Book Clubs

Please visit https://clubs.scholastic.com/home

Class Code LDRGD

100th Day of School Celebration

Feb. 15

February Break/No School

Feb. 22- March. 2

**Please send extra masks to school with your child each day. After returning from recess our masks are wet and students often want to change their mask throughout the day.**

Readers' Workshop

We are close to finishing up our Word Detectives unit of study! It is amazing to see all of the strategies that the first and second graders are using to solve longer and harder words! Some of the strategies we have worked on recently are:

Trying multiple vowel sounds i.e. long and short sounds

Looking closely at beginning and ending blends

Reading vowel teams ee, ea, oa, ou, oo

Looking for snap words inside longer words

Breaking long words into chunks

Students continue to work in small reading groups and on shared reading activities. Our focus for shared reading has been on nonfiction texts and their features. 

Writers' Workshop

In writing, we are working on revising and editing our favorite How To piece of writing. Students will make a "Fancy Copy". We will have our first writing celebration here at school and students will post their work to their Seesaw accounts, so we can share with our families at home! 

            

              

Math 

In math, the first graders have been learning about 2D shapes and how to recognize and create congruent and noncongruent shapes. We are also moving into solving doubles +1 facts and playing some fun Teacher vs. Kids games! 

PBIS Celebration

On Thursday, we celebrated our with a school wide movie and popcorn day! Our class also had a special first and second grade celebration just for us. We have been working hard to follow classroom safety expectations. Here are some pictures from our day!

ZONES OF REGULATION

The first and second graders have been learning to recognize and name the different emotions and feelings we have throughout our day. We are working with our Guidance Counselor, Ms. Rebecca to identify feelings, and the signals our brain gives us to recognize these feelings. Naming these feelings is key to learning how to regulate our body, and learning strategies to help is our goal.