Week of January 22, 2018
        I hope all of you enjoyed the snow days.  The children appeared to have been excited to be back in school. This will be a extremely busy week as we prepare for the first/second grade play.  The play will be this Thursday at 6:30.  If you have any questions about what your child should wear please contact me.  If any parent can help with the scenery please meet me after school on Tuesday.

Below are the skills hopefully that will be taught this week:

• Teacher will introduce prefixes:  re, un, and pre
• Students will identify, decode, and read long e words spelled /ee/ and /ea/ in content
• Phonemic Awareness Phoneme drills (Long Vowels)
• The children will read, retell, and rewrite the weekly Bible story.  "The People of Israel are Slaves in Egypt"
• We will continue to review addition and subtraction number facts.
• Children will add two digit numbers.
• The children will continue to work on addition/subtraction word problem
• The children will learn about the water cycle
• The teacher will introduce how to identify the plot within the story. 

     WEEKLY  SPELLING WORDS:

      me, feed, seat, we, keep, beak, sheep. dream, jeep, meet

      Bonus Words:  Precipitation - weather

      WEEKLY REMINDERS: 

• AR Update:  Children that are reading chapter books are only required to read one book a week.  However, your child may read more books if they choose.
• If your child is not reading a chapter books they are required to continue to read three books.
• If you have not sent in the $5.00 for the field trip to see the play about Charlie Brown please do so as soon as possible.  
• First Grade/Second Grade play Thursday at 6:30
• The !00 Day of School Celebration has been tentative changed to January 31st due to the snow days