First Grade: Feb. 5-9

We hope you enjoyed your weekend! We have many exciting events for this week, so please read everything below!

100 Days of School is coming up! It will be celebrated this Friday, February 9^th. Each student should create a project with 100 items at home. Students can use their imagination and creativity. The project should include a total of 100 items. The students will present their project to the class.

This month your child will have the opportunity to purchase books through the International Scholastic Book Clubs. This is an optional activity offered by the school, in case you want to motivate your child to read at home and to increase their own library. With you purchase, our library will accumulate points to redeem for more books for the benefit of you children in our school. The due date to purchase the books online is February 5^th. The books will arrive to the school in one single delivery, and we will distribute them to the students according to their orders, approximately three weeks after the purchase due date.

As Valentine´s Day is around the corner, we are requesting you to help your child decorate a shoe box to be used as their mailbox. Be creative, and let your child brainstorm the ideas that he/she would like their box to look like. We are going to display all these lovely mailboxes on Wednesday, February 14^th for your child to deliver their valentine cards for their friends. This is a voluntary activity. However, if you decide to participate, the only request that we have is that the students should bring one card or treat to each one of the First Grade students. This mailbox should be in school on Monday, February 12^th.

We have a total of 15 students! Here is the list….

Alejandro Contreras Hedy Rojas

Alejandro Palma Jurgen Krauter

Camila Reyes Liang Zhou

Camilo Moncada Nathan Agurcia

Joane Ochoa Santiago Paz

Daniella Howard Sofia Ponce

Gabriel Perdomo Valeria Cubas

Lorenzo Bonilla

This week your child will be reviewing all the Word Wall words with various chants and activities. The spelling challenge will be on Friday, February 9^th.

The new words are:

name

good

sentence

man

think

For this week, we will be learning about George Washington for President's Day. The children will write an informative piece about all the facts they will be learning. If you happen to have any books, posters, or any other resource that might be useful for us, it would be greatly appreciated.