Schedule for the Week of March 1-5

• M - **100th** Day of Kindergarten!! Computer and Art
  
• T - P.E.
• W - Adventures in Art with Mrs. Erdahl!, Music, Celebrate Anika's Birthday & Media (Please remember to bring back your library books!)
  
• Th- Art
  
• F- P.E.
  

SiGhT WoRdS being InTroDuCed this WeEk: up & down

Word Families/Phonograms we will be working on: -ox & -ix

Robust Vocabulary: contrast, meander, tidy, famished, modify, unfortunate

Star of the Week: Dylen!

Has your child been talking about their most recently earned medallions?? The students have been working hard on many skills and I hope to be adding at least one medallion to their ribbon each week. It is like they are mini-Olympians!!

The students have been working hard and their report cards prove it! It was so nice to meet with all of the parents last week. Thank you for coming to your child's conference! You should be very proud of your child, I know I am!

The ribbons (to the left) look a bit bare, because this is a "before" shot and then in a couple months I will show an "after" shot - Let's go TEAM K-2!!!!

Schedule for the Week of February 22-26

• M - Computer & Art
  
• T - P.E. & Conferences 4-8pm
  
• W - Music and Media (Please bring your library books back! :-) )
  
• Th - No School - Teacher's Workshop Day, Conferences from 4-8pm
• F - No School - Conferences 7:45am - 3:30pm

Our week ahead will be short because there is no school on Thurs. or Fri. We will also be taking a break from our curriculum this week and doing some review work. We will continue to do literature centers every afternoon and working on our hundreds chart in math.

I am looking forward to meeting with you at your child's conference this week (a reminder of your child's conference day/time can be found in their Friday Folder). Please review your child's report card (also in the Friday Folder) and if you have any questions, please feel free to bring those questions to the conference. The conference time slots are only 20minutes and I want to be respectful of your time and the people scheduled after you, so I do ask that you come on time for your child's conference. Thanks so much!

Schedule for the Week of Feb. 15 - 19

• M - No School - enjoy your day off!
  
• T - Music
  
• W - Art and Adventures in Art with Mrs. Buescher!
  
• Th - P.E.
  
• F - Music

Happy 1/2 Birthday to Gunnar on Sat. Feb. 20th!! (We will celebrate on Friday the 19th)

We will be using this short week to review our sight words already learned while working on two new letters, Ww and Xx. Please look for your child's report card and a conference reminder slip in their Friday Folder this Friday. I look forward to meeting with all of you next week at conferences!

The Media center will be having their annual Book Fair - there will be a lot of wonderful books at many low prices. Please make sure to take some time to check it out this week. Because of the book fair, we will not be having our regular Media time this week, so please feel free to keep your library book until next week.

Schedule for the Week of Feb. 8-12th

• M - Computer & Art
  
• T - P.E.
  
• W - Music & Library (Please remember to Bring Back your Library book!)
  
• Th - Art & Imagination Fair Begins
  
• F - P.E. & Valentine Party in the Afternoon ..... Happy 1/2 Birthday to Seth and Dalian

StAr Of ThE wEeK!!! Haakon!

New Sight Words to add to our List!: what, two

Word Families Being Introduced: -ot, -op

Vocabulary for the week: fantasy, jolly, versatile, agreed, contribute, spontaneously

This week is certainly already going fast! With our snow day yesterday, the time seems to have gotten away from me! I apologize for not updating our blog sooner. We have a busy week, with continuing to focus on learning new sight words and learning to create many words by using the same word families.
With Valentine's Day falling on a Sunday and because we have Monday, Feb. 15th off for President's Day, we will be having our Valentine's Day Class party on Friday afternoon. Thank you to everyone for sending in bags of candy for one of our party activities, the kids keep asking "what is all of that candy for??" .... I think they will be pleasantly surprised to find out they get to make candy necklaces on Friday!
Today we made our Valentine boxes, so please feel free to have your child start sending in their valentines to distribute to the class.

Schedule for the Week of Feb. 1-5

• M - Computer and P.E.
  
• T - Music & Happy Ground Hog's Day!! (will there be 6 more weeks of winter??)
  
• W - Adventures in Art with Mrs. Beuscher, Art and Media (Please remember to bring your Library Books Back! :-) )
  
• Th - P.E.
  
• F - Music & Celebrate Jack's Birthday!
  

New Sight Words to add to our List! : one, see

Lettters being introduced: Ll, Hh

Vocabulary: load, bound, steep, drooped, joyous, thrill

We are ready to begin a 5-day week! Last week was fun - the students loved the play, The Snowy Day, at STAGES theater. They did such a good job at sitting in their seats and being a good audience. I hope your children enjoyed the 3-day weekend!
This week we have some more exciting things to come. We are starting a new theme in Language Arts called "Let's Play!" - we will be focusing on learning new letters, sight words and reading some new stories.

Mrs. Beuscher will also be introducing us to our first lesson in "Adventures in Art" - this is a program sponsored by the PTA which exposes our students to pieces of art that are currently being shown at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. This is a program where parents volunteer their time teaching the students about different art pieces and the artists, then the students will get to make an art project of their own.

Let's have a wonderful week!