February 5, 2026
Dear Parents,
Congratulations to Chloe, our class spelling bee winner. She represented our classroom well today in the grade level spelling bee. Way to go Chloe! We are so proud of you!
Thank you for all of your monitoring and support you are giving your children at home as they research their American hero. Tuesday, the students received their final home research packet. This yellow packet is due back to school, signed and completed, by Tuesday, 2/10. Your child is welcome to turn it in early.
The students have received their latest AR goal, which is recorded on a sticker in their planners under the 2/4 date. This February goal deadline is on March 3rd. Please continue to monitor your child's independent reading at home and help him/her choose books within the appropriate range.
Our class will celebrate Valentine's Day in class on February 13th. I am enclosing a class list in the Corrected Work Envelope in case your child would like to label valentines. (We currently have 21 students in our room.) While we won't be having a party, we will be exchanging valentines at the end of the day and playing a class game. Students are not required to bring valentines. They are purely optional.
As we plan ahead for Fitness Week in March, we need to submit t-shirt sizes to be ordered for each child. Please let me know what t-shirt size you would like for your child. I will need this information by February 12th at 3:00. If I don't hear from you by then, I will make my best guess. In case you'd like to plan ahead, our class color this year is light blue.
Finally, please be sure to read the note from Mr. Clewett, the orchestra teacher, regarding recorders which is enclosed in the Corrected Work Envelope. The students will soon be allowed to bring the recorders home to practice, but they need to come back to school each Tuesday. It is recommended that the students always keep their recorders in their backpacks when they are not using them. This will ensure they have them each Tuesday to use at school.
Have a wonderful weekend.
Mrs. McLoud
This Week's Agenda:
Language Arts
Reading Focus - "Somebody/Wanted/But/So Comprehension Strategy" for Fiction Stories
Reading Story - The Perfect Pet
Spelling Focus - Contractions; Prefixes/Suffixes/Root Words
Mountain Language
Writing Focus - Information Writing (Using Research)
Introduction to Cursive - Lower Case "f"
Read Aloud - The World According to Og the Frog, by Betty Birney
Math
Both Groups - Multiplication Testing
McLoud Group
Mutiplying and Dividing with 0 and 1
Odd and Even 2 and 3 Digit Numbers
3-Digit Subtraction with Regrouping Review
Multiplying by Multiples of 10
Two-Step Word Problems
Rainforest Race Multiplication Game
Fishman Group
Using Place Value Strategies and the Associative Property to Multiply by Multiples of 10
End-of-Module 3 Review and Test
Understanding Area as an Attribute of Plane Figures
Social Studies
American Hero Research - Yellow Packet Assigned
Landforms (Bookmaking)
100th Day "Museum Walk"
Health/Safety/P.E
What are Chronic Diseases?
Types of Chronic Diseases
Star of the Week - Melina Abedi
P.E./Psychomotor
"Feelings" Circle (Fridays)
Arts
Orchestra
Abraham Lincoln Profile
Notes/Reminders/Info. Date
End-of-Module 3 Math Test (McLoud Group) 2/9
Yellow American Hero Packet Due 2/10
Health Test 2/11
Timed Multiplication Test 2/12
New AR Points Deadline 3/3