January News

Supplies
Reminders
Upcoming Events
Phonics and Spelling
  • Clorox Wipes
  • Old Magazines
  • Post-it notes
  • Check your child's Star Folder every night for notes and homework.
  • Please remember to send in a healthy snack for your child everyday.
  • Please remember to dress your child appropriately for the cold weather.
  • Jan. 1st - No School
  • Jan. 11th - Author Day
  • Jan. 21st - No School
  • Jan. 29th - Breakfast with the Principal
  • short vowels
  • blending words
  • sorting words
  • word families
  • sight words
  • homophones
  • contractions
Reader's Workshop
Writer's Workshop
  • Launching our new unit: Readers Think and Talk About Books to Grow Ideas
  • Use story elements to retell their books and share ideas with their partners
  • Have responses and thoughts as they read
  • Use post-its as a toll to deepen their comprehension and improve book talks with their partners
  • We will continue to work on our third unit - Personal Narratives: Focus on Writing for Readers
  • Using juicy words (adjectives)
  • Making decisions as writers
  • Adding to our story
  • Editing
  • Peer editing
  • Getting ready to celebrate
Math
Science
Social Studies
  • Telling time to the quarter hour
  • Timeline and number scrolls
  • Standard and Nonstandard units of measurement
  • Introducing fact power
  • Good fact habits
  • Place value: Tens and ones
  • Place value with calculators
  • Penguins
  • Weather and Seasons
  • Open Circle
  • Map skills
  • Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Passport to Learning