Week of February 3, 2020

       The children enjoyed celebrating 100 Days of School.  They will continue to celebrate 100 Days of School on Monday.  There were several activities they did not get to complete.  The children will begin working on their African American presentation this week.  The children will be part of a living museum on February 21st. This information will be sent home on Monday.

AFRICAN AMERICAN PRESENTATION

  

       Your child will need to choose a famous African American and write three details about who they chose.  Your child may choose a person we have or will discuss in class or choose an African American that is not on the list.  They will need to dress like their famous African American and tell about them at the presentation.  The presentation will be on Friday, February 21st at 1:00.   The entire lower school will participate in this presentation.  Information will be sent home on Monday.  Your child will need to choose their 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, chose of who they would like to be.  This will need to be returned to school on Tuesday. February 4th.  Then your child will be giving a worksheet that they will write the information about their famous African American.  

The children will work on the following skills this week:

• Identifying, decoding, and reading words with /ey/,/e/
• Identify, read, and use high frequency words in their writing. (found, hard, near, woman, would, write, laugh)
• Identify adverbs and use them in their writing and speaking correctly.
• Read a story and retell and rewrite the story in sequence.
• Review compound words.
• Put words in ABC order.
• Continue to work on phoneme Categorization
• Work on editing skills
• Addition of three numbers
• Continue to work on writing using good letter formation and spacing.
• Learn about the proper way to take care of their teeth. (dental health)
• Continue to read and discuss famous African Americans
• Read and discuss the Bible story "Moses Leads the People out of Egypt"

WEEKLY BIBLE VERSE

"I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

Deuteronomy 5-6

WEEKLY SPELLING WORDS

key, penny, bumpy, sandy, puppy funny, donkey, candy, money, baby

Bonus Words:  dentist - cavity 

WEEKLY REMINDERS

• Children will be dismissed at 11:00 on Monday, February 3rd.  If your child will be staying at extended day they will need to bring a lunch.
• Lisa Spencer will be visiting the first graders on February, 21st at 8:30.
• Lower School African American Living Museum February 21st at 1:00