Lion Love 💗

Ask Your Child About...

1. Identify and write: said, good

2. Identify, sound, and write: Xx, Jj

3. Write and explain equations for teen numbers

4. Pancake Day

5. Valentine's Day

      

🥞 Pancake Day was a HUGE hit! Thank you to all of the guardians who volunteered to help set-up, operate, and clean-up our wonderful smelling and delicious tasting pancakes! The kids loved being a part of the making process and eating their creations. We were also very excited to see so many of our very own parents at the event! Wow! Thank you!

⛄ I hope everyone was able to stay warm and enjoy the day off due to the cold temperatures. Although there wasn't much snow and the temperatures were too cold to really play outside, it is always a nice surprise for the kids when they get an extra home day.

💕 Valentine's Day was wonderful and the kids showed their love for friends and learning all day long. Thank you to the guardians who helped provide some extra special snacks for our party! 

🏡 We are on our way to filling our Ronald McDonald house with can tabs. Through the remainder of the year we will collect these as a way to support the efforts of the Ronald McDonald House. Whether you have one, a handful, or baggies full of can tabs, we will gladly accept them! Thank you for your participation!

📚 Reading this week focused on story structure. We took note of how a story starts, what events occur that lead up to a major point of interest, and how the story comes back down to a resolution. This skill not only helps us better understand the stories we read, but it also helps us write clearly and productively, as well as retell our own events and stories to others. We also met our new practicum student who will be joining us for this last half of the school year. Ms. Elliot is studying Elementary Education at the University of Iowa and will be joining our classroom every morning (except Thursdays). If you have any questions please let me know!

🔢 We are continuing our study of teen numbers and how we can write and represent them in many different ways. This week we focused on the use of ten frames and creating equations that add up to a teen number. Help your student practice this skill at home by setting out objects in a group of ten and some more. Translate this into an equation by writing your two number groups and the final answer. Don't forget- sometimes we know the answer and not the groups!