Valentine's Day:
There is a note in the Friday Folder about Valentine's Day. I included all of the kids' names who will be participating in Valentine's. I would appreciate it if you steered clear from buying the Valentine's that are attached to candy. We will be including a couple of goodies in the bag so they won't need any extra treats. I understand that not everyone has time to make Valentines but instead of just having your child write their name I encourage you to write something nice on the Valentine about the child who is receiving it. I get that this is a lot for a kindergartner so perhaps they can do the names and they can dictate a line to you. An example might be:
To Susie
You have nice handwriting.
From Jane
It doesn't have to be something different for each child, there are no rules but I hope we can get back to what Valentine's used to be like and encourage kind words to one another. The kids love going through the bag and seeing all of the nice message the other kids have written to them. Please remember to send one Valentine for every student on the list. Valentines are due on Tuesday, February 9th. I will make up the bags on the 10th in the afternoon. I think this will be a great tradition to start!
Thank you:
I want to commend your students on what a great week it was. They have worked so hard and I am so thankful to be their teacher! It's always nice to hear that you have fabulous kids and I just can't tell you enough how true it is.
Centers:
This week in centers the kids dove into a book about penguins. The phonetic writing is really coming along and something to be proud of. They also learned about Ground Hog's Day and made a ground hog puppet/scene that should have been sent home in the back-pack. They learned about holidays and made a dragon puppet for Chinese New Year which is on February 14th this year. They also made their February calendar and 100 thumb prints getting ready for the 100th day of school.
We finished another four pages of addition problem and will introduce subtraction next week and continue with addition.
Daily News will come home in the homework folder on Monday so don't worry when you don't see it today.
Thank you to Molly Griffin for leading us in a great art docent lesson in class. Thanks again to all of our parent volunteers this week.
