
Teachers Notes:
I hope that this finds everyone having a great weekend. Reminder that Monday January 20th is a No School day, we will be having a teacher in-service that day. I am so proud of all your children and how far they have come this year. They are so amazing and smart and I am so lucky to get the opportunity to help them grow. That being said please please please help them by reading with or to them each day. Just 10 minutes a day has proven to really help student with their comprehension and reading abilities. Reading is such an important skill that they will use everyday in life. If you have any concerns about your students reading abilities please feel free to reach out to me and we can talk about it. I am so proud of all that they do and how they continue to grow. Coming up soon we will be working on our classroom project for the auction. This year we are doing a firepit and around the outside the students will each have an artwork tile that they created. We are waiting for the firepit to come in and once that is in we are going to be in full swing getting it ready. We would love to have a few parents come in and help the students on their tiles on a date that works for the majority. If you are unable to come in we are asking if you could make a donation of $5 or something like this for the cost of our classroom project. Once we are finished I will send out a picture of the firepit for everyone to see. Thank you for all that you do and for your continued support. If you have any questions or concerns please do not hesitate to email me and I will get back to you as soon as possible.
Important Dates:
January:
20th- No School, Martin Luther King Jr. Day
21st- No School Mass
26th- Children's Choir sings at 10:30 mass, any student can sing at this mass
27th- Â Dress as Future You or as Career you Admire; Proclamation Signing at City Council Meeting, 4:00 p.m.
28th- Ruby Tuesday- Wear a red school shirt to school and hat for a picture for the auction book
29th- Wear Red, White, and Blue with your Uniform, Spelling Bee at 12:45
30th- Dress as a Saint Day
31st- Family Picnic & No Uniform Day-Pajama and Crazy Hair Day; Talent Show and Sock Hop
February:
5th- 100th day of school (no more snow days weather permitting)
14th- Auction Project due
28th- No school, Auction work day
Homework:
Monday- Read for 10 minutes
Tuesday- Read for 10 minutes, practice spelling words, practice high-frequency words and math flash cards
Wednesday- Read for 10 minutes (please read the story send home), practice spelling words, practice High-frequency words and math flash cards
Thursday- Read for 10 minutes, practice spelling words, practice high-frequency words and math flash cards
Friday- Read for 10 minutes (please read the short story sent home at some point over the weekend), practice math flash cards
Spelling Words:
Our focus on the spelling words this week is the long o sound spelled vowel consonant e. Reminder that the last 4 words are optional.
bone
broke
hope
joke
rope
rose
stone
those
could
why
Bonus Words:
collect
peach
shake
proof
High-Frequency Words:
be
could
of
old
why
UFLI:
In our UFLI lessons this week we will be focusing on when we use the ck /k/ sound in spelling and the consonant digraph sh.
ck spelling rule- When we hear the /k/ sound at the end of a word after a short vowel sound we spell it ck.
Reading:
Essential Question of the Unit: How can we use our imaginations?
Essential Question of the week: How do tricky characters use their imagination?
This week we will be talking about what makes a story a folktale and what the characteristics of a folktale are. We will also be reviewing what the characteristics of a fable are from last week. We will be talking about what synonyms and antonyms are. We will be reading the story called The Clever Monkey and learning to draw connections from our story to the world around us.
For writing we will be discussing how our five senses can add to our stories. We will also be reviewing singular and plural noun and learning about common and proper nouns.
Math:
Objectives: model subtraction of 9 from teen numbers. Relate counting on to make ten and taking from ten. Model subtraction of 8 from teen numbers.
** No homework except to study flashcards.
Religion:
In religion this week we will be starting chapter 9: God Frees His People. We will be talking about how God's chosen people became slaves in Egypt under a cruel pharaoh. Moses' life was spared by God so that he could answer the call to deliver the Israelites from slavery and bring them back to the promise land.
Social Studies:
In Social studies we will be learning about Martin Luther King Jr. and what he did for African Americans. We will talk about the importance of being kind and doing what is right even when it is hard.
Science:

In Science this week we will be talking about the moon and the phases the moon goes through. We will be starting a moon journal. Please help your student notice the moon at night and find the name of the phase that the moon is in each night this week.
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