Valentine's Day Activities

We had a great time on Valentine's Day!

We participated in many different activities that centered around Valentine's Day. We used Conversation Hearts during math and writing to spice things up a bit.

In math, we used the Conversation Hearts to make bar graphs by color. We also counted the letters on each heart to make tally charts.

Before writing I read The Best Valentine. It is an alphabet book about Big Benny who does not receive any Valentines, but in the end he gets something even better. The assignment was to write a letter to Big Benny to make him feel better about not receiving any valentines. Students were encouraged to include as many ABC words from the story as they could. Then, as an extra challenge they were asked to use Conversation Hearts to add to their stories where ever it made since to do so. The results were amazing! Your kids are so creative. Here are a couple of examples...1 and 2.

February News Flash

Feb. 14         Valentine’s Day card exchange!

Feb. 17         Black History Magazine Project Due (see homework packet for information)

Feb. 24         No School (Teacher workday)

March 14         Science Festival 6:30-8:00pm

 WELCOME

 Mrs. Knight is our new Instructional Assistant. She is a certified teacher and has taught 7^th grade. She is working on completing an add-on to her license which will allow her to teach elementary-aged students. 

HOMEWORK

February Homework Packet will be going home on Monday, February 6, 2012

OTHER INFORMATION

Valentine’s Day information:

We will be celebrating Valentine’s Day by exchanging Valentines cards on February 14^th. As a class we will be decorating bags to put our Valentines in.

We need your help! The children will need Valentine’s themed decorations for their bags (hearts, cupid, love, flowers, etc). Stickers, stencils, doilies, feathers and other lovely things are much appreciated by Friday, Feb. 10!

To help your child address his/her Valentines to their classmates, we have provided the class list below. (If your child chooses to participate, please make sure your child gives a Valentine to every child in the class.)

Pascale             Elizabeth                       Tania                Parker

Bhumika           Thomas                        Lilly                  Maria Joselin

Julian                Caiden                          Dev                  Nisha

Miriam              Ayden                          Amaya             Bryan

Maria Lili          Dreizin                          Lillian               Arashdeep

Roseyln            Calvin

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News Flash

January is full of excitement with Awards Day, a field trip, report cards, and a special presentation. Please read the January Newsletter to find out more.

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Mark Your Calendars

January 11^th—Early Release at 1:30pm

January 16^th—Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day—Holiday (no school)

January 19^th—Class Awards Day at 11:00am in the classroom (room 126)

*Each child will be receiving an academic award. Lunch will be afterwards at 11:30am. If you are able to stay you may have lunch with your child in our classroom.

*Please let me know as soon as possible if you will be buying a lunch from the cafeteria.

January 20^th—Field Trip to Marbles Children Museum

*Please make sure permission slips and money are returned by Tuesday, January 10^th.

January 23^rd—Teacher Work Day

January 24^th—Beginning of the 3^rd Quarter

January 25th--National Weather Service Presentation (10:45am-11:25am)

January 26^th—Report Cards go home

February 7th--Parent Workshop: Bully-Free Creekside (K-2) in the Media Center (6:00-6:40pm)

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