Week of February 3-7

The kids singing in Spanish! 

Greetings parents! 

Did you know that Chinese New Year was on Friday, January 31st? Thank you to the Meeuwsen family for coming in and teaching us about this holiday!

Kate in her beautiful Chinese dress!

Chinese dragon dance!

This week in reading we read If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff. We had fun retelling this story and making text-to-text connections with the other Laura Numeroff books we have read. We really focused on phoneme segmentation this week and practiced breaking apart words. 

Fun with phoneme segmentation!

In writing this week we talked about making our writing easier for others to read. We sorted our writing into two piles: a hard to read pile and an easy to read pile. Next, we discussed why our hard to read pile was hard to read. We then went on to fix our hard to reads writing pieces by adding details, spaces, more to our pictures, etc. It is so fun to see the kids making these connections!

Playing house in Spanish!

In math this week we had fun finding math partners and adding them together! We also continued to use ten frames to make teen numbers. We will soon be focusing more on subtraction as we learn the symbol for take away as well.

Using cubes to find math partners and write addition problems!

Math with Ms. Brook

In social studies this week we reviewed maps and began talking about needs, wants and the differences between the two. This week we will dive more into needs and wants and how they are different at home and at school.

Using cars on our map to bring food from the farm to the store!

Notes/Reminders:

-Valentines may be brought in this Friday, they are optional 

-The Cookie Mouse will be at the Holland Barnes and Noble this Saturday at 2:00. It will be a Valentine theme with a story and a craft

-Please send gym shoes with your child on Wednesday for L2BF

Have a great week!

Ms. Monica