On Thursday morning we headed to For the Kidz Gymnastics! We had so much fun jumping, stretching, climbing, and swinging together! Thank you to all the parents who drove, brought in boosters, and signed waivers!
Important Dates & Reminders
- Tuesday, February 11 @ 9:00: All school chapel. Kindergarten and 8th grade will be participating/leading!
- Thursday, February 13: Class Valentine’s Day Celebration & 100th day of school!
- If your child would like to pass out valentines please bring enough for 21 students. Please fill out the “From: ___” section, but not the “To: ___” section as this greatly simplifies passing out the valentines.
- Stay tuned for details about volunteering in Valentines Day centers or donating materials if you would like to help us celebrate.
- Thursday, February 13: 100th Day of School
- Zero the Hero (secretly Mr. McAboy) will be visiting our school to help us celebrate 100 days of learning! Throughout the day, we’ll be doing a few fun literacy and math activities. God has been so good these 100 days! Your child may dress up as a super hero to celebrate with Zero the Hero.
- Friday, February 14- Monday, February 17: No School
Curriculum
Bible: In Bible we are walking through the events of Jesus’ ministry. This week we read about Jesus’s interaction with the Samaritan woman at the well. We learned that Jesus gives eternal life. Your kids are doing an awesome job with our Bible memory! I will assess it this coming week. We will also start a new unit on miracles and begin learning the following Bible verse soon.
Miracles Bible Verse: Pidan, y se les dará; busquen, y encontrarán; llamen, y se les abrirá. Mateo 7:7
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.” Matthew 7:7
Literacy: This week we continued our conversations about verbs. We learned that verbs with él, ella, or usted usually end in a or e. Then we categorized verbs according to their different kinds.
- Reading strategy: Visualizing
- Read aloud: El ratoncito, la fresa roja y madura, y el gran oso hambriento
- Vocabulary words
- fresa (strawberr)
- madura (ripe)
- la planta (plant)
- el oso (bear
- el ratón (rat)
- Phrase of the week: Tengo __ años ___. (I’m ___ years old.)
- Words on the wall so far: el, él, no, la, si, sí, mamá, y, papá, soy, en, tu, tú, es, de, bien, son, voy
We also finished our first round of literacy centers! I’m so proud of your kids! Next week we’ll begin to cycle through the alphabet again, this time through our handwriting curriculum.
Math: In math we have been looking at teen numbers. We’re practicing seeing these numbers as 10+___. We have also been looking at smaller numbers and trying to find the two parts that make that number. For example, 3 and 2 are parts of 5. Practicing writing teen numbers and identifying them would be great practice at home!
Writing Workshop: We continue working on pattern books. Many of the take-home books we practice during Daily 5 have patterns! The kids are finishing up their books about animals and many have started writing a book about the things they can do. These books are full of verbs and have been great review of our other literacy concepts! We’ll continue writing pattern books for the next few weeks.
Up in Lights: Oliver was up in lights this week! His whole family got to join us and share some of the things that make Oliver so special. He is very interested in space and showed us some of the special things he got when he visited Purdue on their space day. We love you to the moon and back, Oliver!
