Music Informance This Tuesday

As part of our kindergarten weather project students learned about temperature, and experimented with thermometers.

Music Informance This Tuesday
This Tuesday, February 14th our music instructor Ms. Huckabone is hosting an informance for the families of Room K-3 students in her classroom.  Come experience a performance and music lesson simultaneously!  The presentation is from 1:20 PM to 1:50 PM.  More information can be found in this flyer.

Valentine's Cards
Don't forget to have your child bring simple Valentine's Day cards in on Tuesday.  I wrote about this a couple of times in January.  If you have any questions email me.

100th Day of School
Don't forget to have your child bring his or her hundredth day of school project to school on Wednesday.  I sent home a paper sheet covering this project a few weeks ago, you can also read a full description here.

President's Day
There is no school next Monday, February 20th, in observance of President's Day.

Pasta for Pennies
Thank you so much for helping your children participate in this project.  Our class was able to donate over $200 to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.  The school as a whole raised over $6,000 for the effort!

NAAPID Parent Involvement Day is Monday, February 13th
In honor of National African American Parent Involvement Day (NAAPID) we invite ALL parents, guardians and adult family members to visit A2STEAM.  Please consider spending an hour or the entire day with our classroom and school! This day is a celebration of the importance of family in a child’s education.  This flyer has the complete schedule and more information.

Curriculum Overview
PBL (Project Based Learning) Weather Project - We are studying what it means to be a meteorologist!  We have experimented with temperature and this week we will read and learn about sunlight, wind, rain, and snow.  Our driving question for this entire unit is 'Why is Weather Important to People?'

Math - This week we will celebrate the 100th day of school and with that practice counting and grouping quantities by tens.  We will also review addition and introduce subtraction and the subtraction symbol.

Literacy - We are reading fiction books where weather causes problems for the characters.  We are reviewing what characters are, and what a book’s setting is. We are also identifying the most important events from the story and how the action rises and falls.  We will also be reading non-fiction books to help us begin to learn about weather and meteorologists.

Writing - This week we are practicing sounding out unknown words.  We will also introduce personal letter writing.

Word Study - We are studying, and learning to hear, short vowel sounds.  We are using this knowledge to help us sound out words.