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` February 15, 2019
Reading/Language Arts
In Language Arts our learning targets this week have included:
Dates to Remember: *Spelling focus: consonant blends “ng” and “nk” at the end of words
*synonyms: words that mean almost the same thing (happy, glad)
Feb. 18 No School/Winter Break *Sounds made by CV words like no, hi, and he!
Feb. 19-22 Purple Power Week *blending sounds, rhyming words
Feb. 19/21 PURPLE POWR STORE *recognizing verbs and plural verbs that add “s”
Feb. 20 PURPLE POWR HAT DAY *inferring– figuring out that because one thing happened another will or
$1 to wear a hat! because a character jumped up and down and yelled, “Yippee” we can infer
Feb. 22 Purple Power BB Game they are happy!
*Cause & effect– something that causes something else to happen: It rains.
What’s New: (cause) We can’t have our picnic. (Effect)
On the website:
*Story Structure – including setting, characters, beginning, middle, end,
*Calendar
problem, solution.
*Christmas week photos
What else: This week in writing we have been finishing our animal
*Traditions Photos
fantasy from last week after another snow day both last week and this week
*Christmas in the Gym Photos and a two hour delay and Valentine’s party! We also fit in a quick CLASS
* Epic in the classroom! BOOK based on a Valentine’s book we read!
*GYM work
*Valentine’s Day Party
Special Notes: Guest Readers
Math
*Valentine’s Day: Thank you to This week we continued Unit 5. March is Reading Month at
our many volunteers and to Mrs. Our Learning targets have Waukazoo! It is a BIG DEAL! I do
Hoogendoorn for planning. We included: lots of things to promote reading
had a wonderful party! and one of them is to try to have
*solving teen addition &
a guest reader every school day
subtraction problems
*February Theme: Compassion *solving teen addition & in March! Are you free one day?
Purple Power is here! Don’t forget subtraction number stories The times that work best for us
The Purple Power Store, Hat Day, *writing number stories are 11:45 (perhaps you can tie it
and the Purple Power BB game! *finding unknowns in various teen into your lunch) or 3:15! Baggy
Our Waukazoo team wants to addition & subtraction problems Book Mom’s we can use you
work together to help STOMP out before you get started or right
CANCER! You will receive an JUST A word of CAUTION. Many
after! MARCH 1 is taken but any
E-blast with our team goals for students are getting lazy about
their number stories. Please other day right now is open!
this event! Our best friend EMMIE Email me and let me know what
remind them to circle the numbers
is fighting this battle and we want day works for you! You and your
in their story & to write their
to be a part of helping find a cure! problem in order of the story! child can pick a favorite book
ALSO I am getting a lot of sloppy that is about 10-15 minutes long!
OUR CLASS GOAL IS $1 from every work and work in ink! Please WE also love grandparents, the
student on Wednesday for Hat Day. stress quality work and pencil!
mayor (if you know them), or
Thanks!
other special people! So far I
only have 3!
