February

2/6

- Parent Teacher Conferences 3:30-6:30

- Wear Red Day

2/7

NO SCHOOL

- Parent Teacher Conferences 8:00-11:40

2/13

- Spring Pictures!

2/14

-Friendship Parties!

Dear Kindergarten Parents,

Please continue to check your child's backpack every night. Also, be sure to check TalkingPoints for updates and reminders.

Math Focus: Module 4: Number Pairs, Addition and Subtraction to 10

Reading Focus: Unit 4 Module A: Reading instructional Focus: Learners understand that different cultures share similar experiences. Readers understand that characters have similar experiences in different stories.

• Compare and Contrast Characters' Experiences.

• Use Words to Understand a Story

• Retell Key Details of a Story

• Relate Pictures and Words in a Story

• Use Words to Understand a Story

• Describe Characters

• Understand New Words in a Story

• Identify Details About Events

• Identify Details About a Characters

• Compare and Contrast Stories

• Ask and Answer Questions About Key Details
  

Foundational Skills Focus: Rhyming, Syllables, Letter Recognition, Onset–Rime, Letter names and Sounds, Initial Sounds, Medial Sounds, Final Sounds, Word Segmenting, Nonsense Words, High Frequency Words, Consonant Blends, and Spelling.

Writing Focus: Writers understand that using time-order words puts events in sequence.

Science Focus: Bundle 2: Dealing with Weather

Social Studies: Geography of the Neighborhood: Lessons: Where We Live, Globes and Maps, Parts of a Map, Our Home and Neighborhood, Safe Neighborhoods, Our Resources.

The 100th Day of school is January 30th!

Conferences are coming soon. Notes will go home sometime this week.

Valentine's Day is Friday, February 14. More information about our Valentine’ Day Winter Party will come home with your student.

Dear First Grade Parents,

As the weather begins to change, please be sure that your child is dressed accordingly. Also, be sure to check TalkingPoints for updates and reminders.

Math Focus:

Module 3: Ordering and Comparing Length Measurements as Numbers

Module 4: Place Value, Comparison, Addition and Subtraction to 40

Reading Focus:

• Using illustrations and details to retell a story

• Identify who is telling the story

Writing Focus:

Informative/Explanatory writing that includes:

• Write steps in sequence.

Narrative writing that includes:

• Write a short story with a beginning, middle, and end.

• Recount two or more appropriately sequenced events.

• Use temporal words to signal the sequence of events.

FEBRUARY CONFERENCES ARE QUICKLY APPROACHING! WE WILL SEND OUT MORE INFORMATION AT A LATER TIME. THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO FOR YOUR CHILD!

-Miss Barrientos

-Mrs. Falcon

-Mrs. Morton

5th Grade

Valentine’s Day is soon approaching, which means January is a thing of the past. The second semester always seems to go by so quickly. February is a great month to make kindness goals. What are you going to do each day to spread kindness to others? A little bit of kindness goes a long way. If you choose to send cards or treats for Valentine’s Day, please remember to send enough for the whole class.

In the next few months we will have several activities occurring: a trip to DCHS to see the musical, parent teacher conferences, field trip to the Cosmosphere, family Title 1 activities, LOTS of testing, visits to DCMS and a visit to DCHS to check out the music programs. Our schedules are filling up fast.

Now on to the good stuff!! In the month of February, we will begin a new unit in math. We just finished multiplying and dividing fractions and decimals and will begin working on addition and multiplication with volume and area. The kids are beginning to understand why we worked on some of the skills we did earlier in the year. Knowing our multiplication and division facts are very important as we continue to introduce new concepts that use the same skills. Please continue working on these skills with your children at home.

For ELA we will continue our mission to understand the universe by reading “The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon,” “Jess and Layla’s Astronomical Assignment” and “Our Mysterious Universe”. The things we are learning in ELA right now tie in well with our Science unit and our upcoming field trip.

For Social Studies students are wrapping up the events that took place to lead to the American Revolution War. For Science students will start learning about Earth’s rotation and how it can reveal patterns of daily changes. Talk about relative distances of stars based on their brightness, and find evidence that gravitational force brings objects down.

Our 5th graders only have 4 months left of elementary school. Let’s make the last few months the best months! Keep encouraging your child to work hard and let’s all spread kindness to others.

Mr. Struzik, Miss Ochoa, and Mrs. Whelchel