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Newsletter for Week of Feb. 17th, 2014

** Week in Review ** What a week! Five days to cover everything and 100 days smarter! The children enjoyed the 100th day of school from counting our straws and moving them over to the 100th place through enjoying the mystery collections the boys and girls brought to school. We loved making our snack. We even tried to imagine what we would look like when we are 100 years old. Wrinkles...lots of them. So many activities and not enough time in a day. We loved mailing our valentines and the excitement in opening them was completely contagious. We would like to thank all the parents for sending in the special treats as the children enjoyed everything so much.



This week we will enjoy the classic by Arnold Lobel with Frog and Toad in "The Kite." We will work on the LONG i vowel sound reviewing that it can be made with i_e and then introducing i, ie, igh, and y as a vowel as well. We will return to our plot chart which will ask us to use our story structure to determine the problem and what solution was arrived at in order to fix the problem. When reading with your child, please emphasize the stopping at periods and the pausing at commas. As we become so skillful in our reading we are sliding past these very important marks which can truly change the understanding of a story. We need to concentrate on the comprehension component which is important in addition to knowing the vocabulary and reading with fluency. We loved our Read and Treat this week too! So many stories but one especially even inspired our snack.
 * Reading **

= Vocabulary for "The Kite" = meadow...perhaps...assist...approach...determined...quarrel. ..view...never...head ...ball...should...shout...find...kind...night...right...by...my...invent

= Religion = In Religion, we have completed our unit on forgiveness. We have learned so many things as we continue to review the 10 Commandments daily. We are getting better and better at recalling them. Now we enter into our next unit on the sacraments. We began by learning why we needed Jesus to be our Savior. We were introduced to what original sin is and why we received it.

= Math = We have now begun our next set of standards working on fact families and telling time. Fact families will cement the importance of how addition and subtraction relate to each other. 3+4=7 then 4+3=7 reviews the commutative property we learned earlier this year. We will see how subtraction relates to addition by using the same numbers in the equations of 7-3=4 and 7-4=3 and seeing how just the three numbers of 3, 4, and 7 are used for this entire fact family. In practicing telling time, we are working on an analog clock. The children and I have been enjoying my two favorite sites -- [| Stop the Clock] and and later [|Bang on Time]. We have displayed them on our SMARTboard not only in our morning routine, but also in our math groupings. Telling time is a concept based on readiness. **Practice is so very important.** We need to make sure we can count hours and half hours of time.

related facts...addition equations...subtraction equations...minute hand...hour hand...half past...digital time...analog clock...half hour
 * Vocabulary for Fact Families and Time **

= Riddles of the Week =   Because it was not peeling well.  All of them.
 *  Why did the banana go to the doctor? **
 *  What month has 28 days? **

= Important Dates =  Feb. 17th.....................Scholastic Book Orders are due Feb. 17th.....................Special Bus routes Feb. 18th.....................**Six Flags-READ TO SUCCEED** reading logs due Feb. 21st.....................No school, professional development  Feb. 26th.....................[|Young Rembrandts]   Feb. 28th.....................Cousins Sub Lunch, no hot lunch served, fruit and vegetable bar is available  March 11th..................Mardi Gras at LCT- wear purple, gold, green Mar. 12th.....................Ash Wednesday, Lent begins Mar. 15th..................... [|SHAMROCK], 5:30 p.m. Mar. 19th.....................Class Mass Apr. 12th-21st..............Spring Break