January

Dear Families,

Donna and I hope you all had a happy and healthy holiday break. We hope you enjoyed spending some quiet time and hopefully some outside time with your families. We are looking forward to a great new year of continued growth and fun learning!

Curriculum

During this month we will be discussing the changing of the seasons. We will be talking about how animals and people get ready for winter.

This month we will also be discussing Martin Luther King Jr., how we should treat people, and how we can be a good friend. We will be talking about how everyone is different in some way and this is what makes us all unique. We should be happy that we are all different because if we were the same, this would be a pretty boring world!

Literacy

This month we will be reading books on the topic of the importance of kindness and books by Eric Carle. In phonics we will be focusing on letter formation and features as well as recognizing and using high frequency words. We will also be touching on color words and number words. We have now learned all of our upper-case and -lowercase letters!

We will begin teaching the children how to encode- write the sounds they hear in a word, and decode- sound out the letters in a word. The children will be drawing pictures and writing the letters they hear in the word that describes their picture. It’s exciting to see how at first, they might just get the beginning sound in the word, but with a little practice they will eventually get the beginning, middle and ending sounds in a word.

In our classroom the children are becoming familiar with the words they see everyday such as the days of the week, months, number words, color words and our famous “trick words of the week.” The children can’t wait to see every Monday what our new trick words will be. During reading time, the children love to find as many trick words as they can in the books they read.

Math

In Math we will continue to work on our module of comparing length, weight, capacity, and numbers to ten. I have really been impressed with the “math talk” the children have been using while we have worked on this unit. The children are using the term capacity, which is very impressive! The remainder of the unit focuses more on comparing numbers, numerals, and attributes.

Reminders:

Thursday, January 8th PTO meeting @6:30- library

Friday, January 10th- Hat Day

Monday, January 20th- No School-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday

Friday, January 24th- report cards on- line after 4:30.

Thursday, January 30th Early release @ 12:30-Professional Development

Friday, January 31th- Fabulous Slipper Day (must wear shoes to school)

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me by email megan_knight@wrsd.net or by calling (508) - 886 - 2901.

Thank you for your continued support,

Megan Knight & Donna Merhib

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