FEBRUARY 17- 20

A PEEK AT THE WEEK

North, South, East, West. This land is the best. Our theme – This Land Is Our Land – is designed to make our class aware of our country’s great heritage. We will learn about our famous leaders, George Washington and Abe Lincoln. We will find out who our president is now, and study the jobs that the president has. We will discover the symbols of our country, the Statue of Liberty, the flag, the bald eagle, the White House and the Liberty Bell. We will also explore Minnesota! Do you know the symbols of our state? We will by the end of this unit! The children will make a book about Parkers Prairie to share will you. We will be playing some fun math games with coins, making graphs and making patterns. We learn some songs from long ago. This theme will continue into next week. I hope the children enjoy this unit as much as they have in years past.


FUN FRIDAYS IN FEBRUARY
Each Friday during February all students in our school will drop everything and read for 15 minutes. Watching all the children with their noses in a book reading, during our “DEAR” time is such a joy. It helps the children grow in their reading skills along with building their confidence as an emerging reader. You might want to form a “DEAR” time with your family. It is a special time to share together.

Each day the children will bring home a book to practice high frequency words. They have not read them with us so they may require some help with words,
Please read together and return this book for a new one the next day.

VOCABULARY WORDS FOR THE WEEK

The words half and characters are our words this week. We will be creating a flag using symmetry by folding a paper in half and just adding paint to one side. The children love to see what design they produced.

THANK YOU
Thank you to the parents who read a story to our class. The children so love having you visit. Thanks for sharing your love of reading with them.