February

February may be a short month but it is still jam packed with lots of fun, activities, learning, and important events. Some important dates to note this month are:

Thursday, February 2^nd: “National Sweater” Day. Please wear a sweater to school as we will be turning down the heat to conserve energy.

Tuesday, February 14^th: Happy Valentines Day!

Thursday, February 16^th: Report Cards go home.

Monday, February 20^th: FAMILY DAY (Holiday: No School).

Thursday, February 23^rd: Parent teacher interview night. More info will also be going home shortly.

**This month's calendar is now posted if you would like to print it out**

Here is what we are planning to learn this month!

Language Arts: We will be continuing to work on revising and editing our own work using checklists and work on improving the amount of detail and content in our writing. We will work on reading and writing persuasive texts as well as work on inferring skills.

Math: We will be finishing up our unit on telling time, and continuing addition. We will also cover temperature and money and begin focusing on subtraction.

Science: We will be finishing up our unit on properties of solids and liquids and starting the next unit: understanding structures and mechanisms (movement).

The Arts: We will continue our study of music and, if time, may start into our Drama unit.

Some important notes:

• If your child is planning on handing out valentines, please make sure that they bring a valentine for everybody in the class so that nobody feels excluded. They will have an opportunity during the day to deliver the cards to their friends.
• Please continue sending your child's library book back EVERY Monday so that your child can choose a new book that week, and please send it back in the ziplock bag with your child’s name on it to help with organizing the book exchange.
• Please continue sending mailbags back every morning!

Have a fantastic weekend!

Mrs. Miller