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Reminders
Students should be reading for at least
15 min. every night. Daily practice will
go a long way in helping your child
improve their reading level.

This week I will be sending a list of high

frequency words that your child is
working on. Please practice reading 510 of them every night. Knowing these
words will be a huge benefit to
improving your childs reading.

Feb. 5th we are celebrating the 100th

day of school! Please make a
collection of 100 things to send to
school with your child. Ideas: 100
pretzels, 100 cotton balls, 100 toy cars,
100 pennies, 100 marshmallows, 100
cheerios, 100 stickers

We will have a small class celebration

in the afternoon of Feb. 12th. We will
exchange Valentines. You may also
send in a treat for the class if you wish.
Please remember we are a nut free
classroom.

Here's What Were Working On...

Oral Language we will use Kelsos
choices to solve small problems when at
school. http://kelsoschoice.com/
Reading we are working on the
following strategies that good readers
use:
Flip the Sound flip a short sound into
a long sound and vice versa if it
doesnt sound right
Know many words by heart
Writing students will be focusing on
writing conventions: printing our letters
properly, finger spaces between words,
appropriate capitals and punctuation.
They will also work on adding interesting
details to their writing.
Math We will begin working with
money: counting and recognizing coins.
Students will need to be able to count to
20 cents (Gr. 1) and $1.00 (Gr. 2) in many
ways.