February 14, 2014

From Ms. Caldwell Shared Reading

This week we read Valentines books. We read poems from Bear Hugs, Arthur Great Big Valentine, The Three Valentine Bears, How Do !o"e #ou$, The Da% it &ained Hearts, The Biggest Valentines '"er, (rogg%s (irst )iss, *weethearts, and The +ight Before Valentines Da%. We learned a few new ,hants this week, !o"e *omebod% and *kinamarink.

Classroom Pictures can still be purchased for $10 through March. Make Checks payable to Bill Miller Photography. We have a classroom blog that has our ne sletters! sight ords! and classroom pictures slide sho from throughout the year.

Valentines Day
We had a wonderful time at our Valentines da% part%. The ,hildren lo"ed passing out their Valentines.

We ha"e ,ontinued working on pro-e,t book pages for our ,ontinents and ,oral reef. We ha"e made star fish for our ,oral reef. We are resear,hing this week about animals in Bra.il.

Theme

Thank You
" ould like to thank everyone for all my #alentine$s day goodies% " am so lucky to have such great support from home. " en&oy your children every day. " can$t believe e have been in school for 11' days of (indergarten%

Shared Journal
The students ,ompleted se"eral math pages this week. During our small group time, the% had to ,ount their ,and% hearts b% ,olors and put them into a graph.

Dates to Remember
)ebruary *+ March ' , Book )air starts. Parents eat lunch-Book )air .ay March ' at 5pm / P01-2iteracy 3ight

Book (air and &ead A,ross Ameri,a

Monday, February 24th Favorite Character Day (Each class selects a book & will dress up as a character from the book. lassroom teachers please send out information about which character your class chose to your parents.! "arents may come eat lunch with their child at #$%4& and then take them to the book fair. 'uesday, February 2&thMystery Reader Day ((cti)ity will be done at school.! *ednesday, February 2+th,r. -euss .at ,ay (Make a ,r. -euss hat to wear to school this day.! 'hursday, February 2/th-nu00le 1p *ith ( 2ook ,ay (-tudents may brin0 their fa)orite book & stuffed animal to school to snu00le up & read. *e will do an announcement for e)eryone to drop e)erythin0 a read sometime durin0 the day.! Friday, February 23th*ear 4reen ,ay (-tudents are encoura0ed to wear 0reen on this day. *e will ha)e 0reen e00s and ham for lunch.! Monday, March 5rdFamily 6iteracy 7i0ht ("'8 Meetin0 9 &%$$, Family 6iteracy 7i0ht from &%5$ until +%5$!

Ha"e a (abulous weekend/

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