Weekly Newsletter 2/1/10

**NOTES TO PARENTS**
February 5th is Mid-quarter. If your child has a 75% or lower in any subject you will receive a progress report. Otherwise you will not receive a progress report.

Love of Reading week has been moved to February 15th through 19th. If anyone would like to volunteer to read to the class please let me know by Friday. We will have a couple of guest readers in our room this week as well.

We will have a class Valentine’s party on Friday, February 12th from 2:00-3:00. If you would like to send in a snack for the class you are more than welcome. I would like to keep the sweets to a minimum. Chips, veggie tray, or Chex Mix are a couple of examples of things I would like to have for the kids. Also I am attaching a list of all the kid’s names for Valentine Cards.

Wednesday, February 24th is Grandparents Day. Please invite your child’s grandparents to join us for many fun activities. Lunch will also be served. I will put more information in the next newsletter.

There will be NO school on Thursday, February 25th and Friday, February 26th for Rodeo Break.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact me at misty_fite@yahoo.com or 721-4205.

** WHAT WE ARE LEARNING**

In Phonics, we will work on contractions.

In Math, we will be identifying ordinal position, selecting coins for a given amount, multiplying two-digit numbers, and identifying the number of days in each month.

In writing and language arts, we will start our unit on the mechanics of capitalization and punctuation.

In Science, we will continue to learn about rocks and minerals.

In Social Studies, we will learn about our federal government.

Spelling List

Monday – Write words three time each
Tuesday – Write words in a sentence
Wednesday – Write words in ABC order
Thursday – Study
Friday –Test

1. don’t
2. it’s
3. didn’t
4. I’ll
5. can’t
6. couldn’t
7. let’s
8. you’ve
9. wasn’t
10. won’t
11. isn’t
12. we’ll
13. wouldn’t
14. aren’t
15. doesn’t
16. I’ve
17. we’ve
18. that’s
19. she’ll
20. I’m