Dear Family, 2.5.12
We had an amazing 100th day celebration on Friday. Thank you to the families who came and
joined in the fun. The kids had a great time with all the activities and we even had a delicious cake
(baked by Mrs. Rioux) decorated with 100 m&ms and chocolate chips-YUM! We will still be asking
kids to come up and count by 2s to 20, and 1s, 5s, and 10s to 100. Please practice at home, in the
car and they can show off their skills.
We are also practicing our manners lately. We have such great kids, but it is good practice to
use their manners at school and at home-I say manners are free so use them up! It would be great if
they practiced at home too.
Math Night is Wednesday, February 15th-Dinner will be provided. RSVPs were sent again to
families who have not responded. RSVPs are due by Feb 8th at the latest! Please come to this
important event and let your child show you some math concepts that they are learning and receive a
bag of math games.
Field trip to Popejoy for the play “Sylvester and the Magic Pebble” by city bus on Tuesday,
February 14th. My volunteers are Esther and Deborah. I have one more ticket if another parent is
interested in spending the day with us. Everyone should bring a sack lunch with a drink (in a
disposable bag), wear layers of clothes, good walking shoes (to get to bus stop). The following kids
will receive a cafeteria lunch-Lorena, Ruby, Samantha, and Hannah. Parent Volunteers-tickets for the
play are $2 and the bus is $2 (one dollar each way). Kids are already paid for and the bus is free for
kids too!
Valentine card exchange will happen at the end of the day on Tuesday, Feb 14th after the field
trip. I will attach a list of the students’ names if your family would like to send in cards to exchange.
If you would like to send in a special snack for that day, please feel free! Our class loves to party!
NO SCHOOL-Monday, February 20th for Presidents’ Day.
Week of February 6-10
Lesson and Standards
Work Stations-
Valentine’s cards-Students will listen to a nonfiction story about Valentine’s Day and will respond by
making their very own card. Standard-Language arts-Writing
Valentine suncatcher-Students will create their own present to give to whomever they love using
beads in a pattern with their picture in the center-so sweet! Standard-Social Studies-Holidays and
traditions
Valentine candy hearts-Students will read color words, sort, count and graph a bag of candy hearts.
Standard-math-counting accurately and graphing data
Guided Reading-Word family book “A Pig”-a small book will come home, please let them read them
to you and add it to the reading log! Above book is “Animal babies”.
EDM- Sorting activity (color, size, wings/no wings, where it’s found-land, air sea), Train game using
subtraction, Attribute game using shapes and spinners with shape names, size, thick/thin, Number
stories using addition and subtraction
Fundations- We will run two groups for a few weeks to differentiate our teaching-one group will learn
digraphs (two letters that make one sound such as sh, th, wh) and one group will work on sounds in a
word, building short three letters words.
Computer-We will write our name using different fonts for our Valentine bag using a Word document.
Special activities on Friday-We will be making our very own Valentine bag to exchange cards and we
will be making a secret sweet treat for our families and for ourselves-yummy measuring and baking…
Science-We will listen to a story about animals and their babies and create a baby/parent match.
Standard-Life Science-babies resemble their parents
Week of February 13-17
Lesson and Standard
Work Stations
Telling time book –Students will practice telling time with a simple book and match analog clock (with
hands) to a digital clock. Standard-Math-Telling time to the hour and half hour
Sequence of events-Students will listen to a read aloud story “Alexander and the horrible, no good,
very bad day” and then create their sequence of events in a day or during an activity using the words
first, then, finally. Standard-Math-time and order words
Guided Reading-Word family book “The Cop”, students are practicing reading a small book with
words that end in –op. Above book is Nature Park about animals.
EDM-Review of follow my pattern, Attribute game, and introducing coins and the game “Clean the
coins”, and a dice game of addition using number sentences.
Fundations- We will continue teaching two groups. One group will learn digraphs and the other
group will be working on word attack skills in reading and writing.
Art- Students will listen to the story “Swimmy” and create a jellyfish using crayons and watercolors
using an art method called a resist.
Science-Students will listen to read aloud nonfiction books about animals, choose an animal and then
make a card that asks “What animal has, does, moves…” and fill in hints about their animal attributes
and draw a picture of their animal on the inside with a animal name as a label. Standards-Life
Science-Animal attributes
I want to thank all my volunteers, Mrs. Rioux and Mrs. Christian for all the support for our students. I
just finished testing and the kids have learned a tremendous amount in 5 months. I am so proud of
them, but I am so thankful for all the parents, volunteers, and staff that help our kids to learn and
grow. We are so lucky in many ways…
For Valentine Cards-our kids first names are:
Hannah, Dashiell, Samantha, Tyliyah, Nico, Freddie, Marko, Simon, Ethan, Lorena, Avery, Ruby, Ben,
Juan, Emmanuel, Ronnie, Alyssa, Alicia and Evie.
Lhasa Lea, lea_l@aps.edu 228-8759
Kristin Christian, deblass@unm.edu