Week of 2/10

Valentines Day

A final reminder about Valentines Day this Friday:

1. Please send in a card for each child. There are 23 total students in our class: 15 girls and 8 boys. It is fine for you to start sending your child's valentines in as soon as Monday, if you would like to. I will keep them safely in the classroom.
2. Please ONLY sign the card & put nothing in the TO box. It is challenging enough for kindergartners to pass out valentines to all their classmates. Having the "to" part filled out makes this extremely challenging and it takes far too long. Thank you for your help with this!
3. Please try to purchase valentines that do not have candy attached. I know those can sometimes be hard to find, but there are good choices with stickers, play tattoos, and other non-food goodies.

Language Arts

Our sight word this week is love, a perfect word for this week! Please check the words on the class website  to ensure your child is retaining these words. 

We will continue with Unit 3 of Fundations this week. Blending sounds to read and spell words is now the main focus in our reading curriculum. There are some great resources in the Unit 3 Fundations Home Support letter. 

Math

We will begin Topic B of Module 5 this week. In Topic B, we begin subtraction. Students solve subtraction problems and represent their thinking by using number sentences with mathematical symbols. For example, 5 − 3 = 2. They work with a single problem type, take from with result unknown, to understand subtraction as taking away. Students use familiar story structure (beginning, middle, and end) to write and understand subtraction sentences: “I had 5 watermelon slices. I ate 3 of them. Now there are 2 watermelon slices. 5 minus 3 equals 2.”

Clay

We have a Clay lesson on Thursday. This time, we will be looking at houses and designing our own "dream house." Thank you to Evelyn, Meeta, Emily, and Tomoko for helping out with the clay program this year.

**Library is every Wednesday. Please return your child's library book by Tuesday each week.

**School spirit days are every Wednesday. Wear your Grasshopper t-shirt or Alta Vista gear to show your school pride!

This Week's Helpers & Activities
Monday: Centers @ 12:20 (Emily & Jongse)
Tuesday: Return Library Books, Centers @ 12:20  (Ellen & Franklin)
Wednesday: Library @ 9:10 (Emily & Shelbie), Music @ 12:15, Dismissal @ 1:15
Thursday: Clay @ 12:20 (Emily, Meeta, Tomoko, Evelyn)

Friday: Valentines Exchange 

Upcoming Events

Wednesday, 2/12: Kindergarten Literacy Night

Friday, 2/14: Valentines Exchange in Class

2/17-2/21: No School: President's Week

3/6-3/14: Parent-Teacher Conferences 

Monday, 3/17: No School: Professional Development Day