February 9, 2015

Dear Parents,

Love is in the air! We hope you had a great weekend with your family! Welcome February!!!

This week your child will inquire into the following:

Language Arts

Working with Words: This week's words are:

  say, great, where, help, through

Your child will be learning these words and reviewing older words through various chants and activities.

 

Reading:

 We will begin our President’s Unit. Students will be asking and answering questions about key details in a text.

If you have any special books you would like to share please do so and send them labeled with your child’s name.

Writing:  

Students will write a personal narrative about their special friend.We will go over the special characteristics of a personal narrative. We will also discuss special things they have done or shared with their friends.

Math:  

We will continue with Chapter 6, place value and data, counting up to 120 and making numbers using tens and ones.

The class will be practicing skip counting by 2s, 5s and 10s, up to 120. Please help your child with skip counting by asking them to count nightly. Your child is expected to be able to count to 120 forward and back by 1s.

Science:

We will wrap up our unit on the three states of MATTER. Students are very excited about this unit. If you have any books about this topic and want to share them, please feel free to send them with your child. We would really appreciate it!

MONDAY:

Reading- Read for at least 10 minutes and record pages read in log

Math- Worksheet pg. 121-122

Working With Words: ABC order

IXL: I.2 

TUESDAY:

Reading- Read for at least 10 minutes and record pages read in log

Math- Worksheet pg. 123-124

Language Arts: Differentiated Reading Passage/ Get Valentine Cards or treats ready to share.

IXL: I.3

WEDNESDAY:

Reading- Read for at least 10 minutes and record pages read in log

Math- Worksheet pg. 125-126

Spanish: Worksheet

IXL: I.4

THURSDAY:

Reading- Read for at least 10 minutes and record pages read in log

Language:  Get Valentine Cards or treats ready to share tomorrow.

Working with Words: Fill in the blanks worksheet.

IXL: I.5

VALENTINE’S DAY SENIORS ACTIVITIES – Our seniors will be distributing pre-ordered candy grams, roses and love/friendship letters next Friday, February 13. They last day to pre-order these Valentine goodies is next Wednesday, February 11. They will also have a bake sale and wedding chapel that day during recess.

CAYOS COCHINOS - As part of TES, Trabajo Educativo Social, the 12th graders will be going to Cayos Cochinos  on March 2 to 7  to assist the community of Cayo Mayor. The Alfonso Lacayo Public School is in need of school materials, so the Senior class has decided to conduct a school supply drive. They would appreciate any and all donations but wish to ask the following classes that each student contributes the following:

Nursery and Kinder – I pack of 12 colored markers

1st and 2nd – 2 pencil sharpeners

3rd and 4th – 1 pack of 12 colored pencils

5th – 2 scissors

6th to 8th – 2 normal sized composition notebooks

9th – 1 blue, black and red pen

10th – 1 pack of 12 pencils and two erasers

11th – 4 UHU glue sticks

WE WOULD ALSO GREATLY APPRECIATE ANY SPANISH BOOK DONATIONS. Please help not only the Senior class, but also the inhabitants of Cayo Mayor.