Newsletter: January 17

Room 4 News

Reminders/Notices:
•No School on Monday January 18, 2010 – Martin Luther King Jr. observance
•Friday January 22th is Snow Day, we recommend students dress in snow clothes as we enjoy various snow-themed activities
•Book orders will be going home this week and are already available online
•Please send in “good stuff” for our snowman project as soon as possible, remember this “good stuff” can be any household items

This Week:
Reader’s Workshop: This week we practiced “checking out” books and reading them at their Special Reading Spots. Make sure you have returned the “Take Home Book” form so that students may begin bringing home these book bags next week.
Writer’s Workshop: Students continued to write stories across several pages.
Math: We continued measuring using linking cubes and paperclips.
Science: We identified, labeled, and drew the parts of a tree. Ask your child to name the parts of a tree (roots, trunk, branches, leaves)
Social Studies: We discussed Martin Luther King Jr. and his contributions to history. We read a moving story called “Martin’s Big Words” and we will continue to learn more about him and how we can carry on his legacy in our own lives.
PE: Due to weather restrictions this week, the children learned “Double Simon Says” which we played between Room 3 and 4. When a student gets “out” of one game they simply join the other game.
We acted out the Mitten and completed several pages in a rhyming book we are creating about mittens

Next Week:
*We will be attending a draw along assembly presented school wide on Tuesday.
*We will continue measurement and work on comparing objects by their length
*We will continue to learn about Martin Luther King Jr.
*We will be celebrating “Snow Day” on Friday and discussing ice, snow, and cold weather.
*Students will begin bringing home book bags to share and read at home nightly