Weekly Update February 11-15

♥ Happy Valentine's Day!!! ♥



We have a fun day planned for Thursday’s Valentine's Day Party! We have 4 fun centers planned: construction paper conversation heart wreaths, love bird valentines, dancing hearts and heart crowns. Thank you to all the volunteers who help to make our parties great!

Love of Reading month is in February. We can come to school in our pajamas on Friday February 15 and read all afternoon. Please be sure to bring your favorite books.

Happy Birthday Arizona! Thursday is also Arizona's 101st birthday! This week in social studies, guided reading and writing, we will learn all about our great state! We will learn about the state flag, tree, flower and bird. The kids will write a book page per day to go with each symbol and, at the end of the week, each child will have his/her own Arizona book!

This week in writing we are working more with word choice. The kids did such a great job with strong verbs last week! Tomorrow the kids will write strong verbs that describe Arizona. On Wednesday, the kids will learn and write about explicit nouns that describe Arizona. On Friday, the kids will use their lists of strong verbs and explicit nouns to write a short story about an Arizona adventure.

The kids had fun in their Valentine's Day centers! The centers for the week include:

1. Listening - The kids listened to It's Valentine's Day by Jack Prelutsky. After they listened, they made a valentine for someone special.

2. Social Studies - The kids played a Valentine What's Missing? game. Several Valentine's Day items were placed on the table. The kids took turns covering the items and removing 1 or 2 items to test the rest of the group's memory. They really enjoy this!

3. Writing - The kids worked on a Valentine's Day crossword puzzle.

4. Math - The kids played a greater than/less than/equal to game with cupids and hearts. The kids opened a heart to reveal 2 numbers and they placed the appropriate symbol between the numbers to compare them.


The kids came home with Rainbow Words and they are due tomorrow.

In reading we are working on reading letters sounds v, x, y. We are also working on reading to learn what the author is trying to say and reading to learn the most important pieces of information.

In math we will start non-standard measurement. They will also work on estimation.

Our science fair project turned out great! The kids worked SO hard on it and each child in the class played a role in putting the tri-fold display board together. Kids - be sure to tell you parents about our neat science project!


We have a fun activity planned for computers.


Have an A+ week!
Ms. Klein