Weekly Update

Hi Everyone; Happy Friday!

I hope you're excited for the weekend!

First Grade Music Program:
Please click HERE for a note from our music teachers about the First Grade Music Program. Planning has begun for this fun program, which will be held in May. Thank you!

100th Day of School:
The 100th Day of School is coming! Weather permitting, we will mark this special day on Wednesday, February 12th. (If we have more snow days between now and February 12th, we will adjust the date so it aligns with our 100th day). The 1st grade teachers and I have been busy planning for this fun day! As part of our fun, the students are invited to dress like a 100-year old boy or girl, or make and decorate a t-shirt with 100 items for our 100th day celebration. I sent home information about this optional project today with your child, so please check their Homework folder.

Valentine's Day Party:
Mark your calendar...our classroom Valentine's Day party will be held on Friday, February 14th from 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. in our classroom. All families are welcome to attend! The kids will exchange Valentine cards at the party, and I sent home information about this last week in Thursday folders. The card exchange is completely optional, however, if your child participates, please be sure he/she has one for every student in the class. If your child wants to attach a little "something" to his/her Valentine cards, please don't attach candy or food...little items like pencils, erasers, temporary tattoos, stickers, etc. are fine. If you have not returned your child's party permission form, please do so by Wednesday, February 12th. Your child will not be able to participate in our special treat that day without a signed permission form. Also, if you would like to volunteer to help out at the party, please click HERE.

Focus Areas for the Coming Week:

• Reading-We will continue our non-fiction unit. We will practice becoming super smart about nonfiction topics by chatting about pages, reading across words, and understanding nonfiction text features. 
• Writing- We will continue with our nonfiction informational writing unit. Now we are focusing on developing a nonfiction chapter book. We are learning to add nonfiction text features into our chapters. 
• Math-We will continue our addition unit. We will learn strategies for solving addition facts, and we will learn the process for 2 parts coming together to make a whole, so: Part + Part = Whole
• Science- We will finish our Matter unit and begin our Force and Motion unit. We will talk about pushes and pulls, paths of motion (forward, backward, and sideways), and sound and vibration. 

Please let me know if you have any questions about anything!

I will be traveling to Pennsylvania to visit my family and it will be Super Bowl Sunday! Exciting things to look forward to! Have an awesome weekend!