Happy Monday! I hope everyone had a great weekend. I will be posting a photo album of all of our reading week pictures and science week pictures, that I will be taking this week.
We will be going to the St. Petersburg Science Center on Wed. Feb 29th.
If you reserved a lunch from Sage or paid for one, then your child's lunch is provided. Many of you turned the reservation from Sage down and will need to provide a lunch for your child.
We will be bringing home our Reading Journals Wednesday with a book and questions to answer from our favorite story. The reading Journals will not be going home again until after Spring Break.
We will have Field Day next Friday, March 9th. Your child will be assigned a color to wear next week.
We are learning all about the American symbols and are making a book to share with you next month.
In Math, I introduced the quarter. It is tricky to count coin combinations with quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies. Please practice at home. A good incentive is...they can keep what they can count.
I wish everyone a great week. I know we will have one!

Tuesday is Character Dress Up Day!!!!!!!
Choose your favorite character from a book and come to school dressed as they do, along with the story. We will celebrate all of the characters during town meeting then do more sharing back in the classroom.
Do not forget to fill out the paper "Act it Out"
If you did not get this paper then you can fill it out in class on Tuesday.

Happy Monday! I hope everyone had a great weekend. We have a lot going on in the next couple of weeks. We are concluding our Solar System study. In the photos, we are finishing up our presentation posters that we will be sharing with third grade, during Science Week. The Oldie Goldie book sale is on Feb. 24th. Please look through your collections and send unwanted or outdated books to school. Remember your trash and overstocks could be someone elses' treasure.
Remember to choose a character from your favorite book and come dressed up to school on Tuesday, February 21st. We will share our characters at town meeting.
Our Spelling focus this week is long o silent e. _ome, _ope, _ode, _ose
Robust vocab: congregate, cheerful, asserted, offended, retorted, congenial
We will focus our social studies on America's symbols and map skills throughout the remainder of February.
In Math, we are working on equivalent names and fact families.
Writer's Workshop is focusing on writing more to the middle of stories, by adding purple strips of paper where needed.
In Reader's Workshop we are drawing conclusions from the text. We are inferring. Even though things are not said or described in the text, we can figure out what is happening.
Remember: No school for students on Friday or Monday.
Have a great week. We will!

Happy Monday! What a great week we had. Groundhog's Day, 100th Day of school and 7th grade English students sharing their writing with us. Check out E-bytes for the article by Mr. Collins explaining about the 7th grade stories. I can't believe we have celebrated 100 days in school. It seems like school began 2 weeks ago.
Spelling this week: long i ..._ine, _ite, _ile, _ike
Robust vocab: seek, downpour, incident, gradual, oblivious, indecisive
I look forward to meeting with everyone this week for our February Conference.
Our Valentine party is on February 14th at 2:00p.m. Please send in your child's Valentine's by Tuesday.
We have now moved to an island formation. The students have named their islands. They are Tennessee, New Yorkers, Statutes of Liberty and the Eagles. We no longer have the Love Jar. We now have island banks and are earning pennies as a group. We are learning how to work together and be responsible for each other. Ask your child about how their island is doing.
We will have a character dress up day on Tuesday February 21st. Your child can dress up as a character from a story they love. They need to bring the book to school as well. I have already gotten them to start thinking about it.
If you would like to be part of our Relay for Life hot dog lunch, please return the reservation form by Fri. Feb. 10th. Remember there is no Sage lunch on Wed, Feb. 15th. You will need to provide lunch for your child. Come and be part of this event! All are welcome!
Have a great week. We will!