All About the Post Office!

We had a short but busy week learning about the mail and the Post Office! Here are some of the important things we learned...

Our centers this week included various blends and digraphs games, activities that focused on blends, writing letters to our friends, learning about the Post Office and how the mail starts in one place and ends in another, finding blends around our classroom and writing them, writing power words, and reading books on RAZKids! 

In Phonics, we learned to add double consonants to short vowel words (the floss rule).  We practiced reading and writing words that end with this rule. Examples of this are ff, ll, zz, and ss. We learned two new power words:  all and off. We continued working on blends and digraphs. 

In Reading, we continued our exploration of places in our community by listening to nonfiction books about libraries. We discussed information we learned about the topic and made text-to-self and text-to-text connections.  We revisited some familiar big books, reviewed punctuation and rhyme, and echo read to build our oral fluency. Our vocabulary words this week were: study, curious, organize, and reorganize. 

During Writing, we listened to a nonfiction book about vegetables and made observations about various foods.  This helped us brainstorm lots of details for our nonfiction writing. We also talked about the inflectional endings -s and -es in plural nouns. We worked on punctuation at the end of our sentences. 

We started our addition unit in Math.  During this unit, we will learn to add fluently within 5 and 10 using concrete materials and manipulatives.  We will also use pictures to visualize and practice making addition stories and sentences.  Please work with your child on basic addition facts within 5 at home. 

We had fun building galimotos during Science! Ask your child to tell you all about it! 

Valentine's Day Party pics coming soon! 

Looking ahead...

Don't forget to mail your child a letter by Sunday! 

No School- President's Day- 2/17

Service Learning Project items due 2/21 (We have changed the organization to Stray Rescue)
Donuts with Grownups 2/27 (last names A-M) and 2/28 (last names N-Z)

Parent Teacher Conferences 3/4 and 3/12
Early Release Day 3/13
Spring Break 3/14-3/23

Have a great, long weekend!

Jena