Happy Valentines Day!
Thank you for all the donations to our tea party yesterday and to the parents who came to help. We had fun being polite and drinking tea!
Thank you to Kathleen for once again arranging a visit to the senior center and accompanying us on the TART bus for a morning of painting and reading with the seniors. I know this isn't necessarily easy for the students as many of the seniors are not very responsive but I know they appreciate the attention and I think it is a very worthwhile experience for all of us.
We had some great trips up to the outdoor classroom this week and are noticing big changes in the snow level. The nice weather does make for some very enjoyable times outside and we did a science observation of our black and white bottles in the sun and recorded our observations our science journals. We enjoyed Addy's special sun spinner too!
Reminders:
Feb. 17-20 ski/skate week NO SCHOOL
Feb. 24th 9:30 TC X-country ski center - CANCELLED- only one driver. We will try again in March
Feb. 27th- Kidzone trip 9:30-12:15- need drivers please
Please call school or email me by 9:00am if your child will be unexpectedly missing school that day.
Independent Study for Friday, Feb. 14- if you are not including all work in your child's folder, please write me a note about what he/she did. Thanks!
- Read to your child
- practice your good manners at the table like we did for the tea party
- go through the work in your folder
- Read and sort your valentines different ways (use "fewer than/more" than to compare your groups).
- Write a weather report for the week
- read you poems
- Use something at home to show all the ways to make ten (draw pictures, use toys, stamps or stickers)
- Play outside
- Play a card or board game.
- Practice counting to 100
- Do a chore to help someone.
- Practice heart words (words we learn "by heart" also known as "sight words" because students should know them by sight w/o needing to sound out). a, the, love, see, my, like, can, by, to, and, my, is, cat, dog, we, house, yes, no, be, is, go, it, have, end, by, because, this, from, get, are, in, stop, going, today, they,
- Lots of ideas for I.S. on the website