Feb. 10 - 14th

Calendar:

• February 13th - Valentine's Day Party  2:00 - 3:00  All parents are welcome!! 
• February 14th - NO SCHOOL for students
• February 17th - NO SCHOOL - weather day
• February 20th - Town Center Cultural Night and Art Show  5:30 - 7:00pm  
• March 9th - 13th - NO SCHOOL  Spring Break

Look At What We Will Be Learning Next Week:

Language Arts:

• We will NOT have new spelling words next week.  We will use this time to review one of our long vowel rules...........When two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking!!!
• Writer's Workshop - We will work on some fun valentine writing next week!  
• Reader's Workshop - We will continue using our reading super powers to increase our fluency and comprehension! 

Social Studies:  
We will talk about friendship, kindness, and compassion as we complete some fun valentine activities!  We can't wait for our party!!

Math:   The learners will continue to skip count by 2s, 5s, and 10s to 120.  We will practice counting a group of coins and look at all the ways to make a dollar.  

Please see the link to practice identifying coins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ARNqyQ0CuY

Please see the link to practice counting coins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbtmucV-U2c

Please see the link below to exercise while counting to 120 by 5s. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKg0eu9_fsM

Please see the link below to count by 2s to 100  (1st grade's goal is to count to 120 by 2s) 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wwydguSKOU

Science:
Learners will continue to research about each season and what makes that season special.

Discussions At Home:

Don't forget to read to your child every night.  There are so many great benefits to reading to your child!!!!

• builds vocabulary
• helps with fluency
• promotes communication
• teaches inflection in voice 
• increases reading level
• increases imagination in children
• builds academia in subject matter
• and many more!!!! 

Grab some coins and work with your child to find the value of the coins.  Discuss all the ways to make a dollar.  

In Other News:

We can't wait to celebrate Valentine's Day!!  Our room moms are busy getting a wonderful party together for us.  All parents are welcome on February 13th from 2-3.  A letter will come home with your child about valentine cards for  friends in our class.  They LOVE to open their valentine cards at our party.   If you have any questions about the cards, please let your teacher know. 

Mark your Calendars!!!!  First grade is going on a field trip on April 2nd to Kidzania in Frisco.  More information will follow but we wanted to let you know in case you would like to accompany us and need to take a day off of work. We can't wait!! 

3rd Annual TCE Cultural Night
Mark your calendars for Thursday, February 20th from 5:30-7:00pm for Town Center’s 3rd Annual Cultural Night! Learner art will also be showcased in our gym! Last year was such a great time celebrating our cultures with family, friends, food, and fun! A flyer came home in your child's backpack this week. We hope you can sign up to share a traditional dish! This is one of our favorite nights!! We hope you can come and celebrate with us!!

First Grade Pics:

What a treat to have a guest reader from the high school. 

We love when Mrs. Matlock comes to visit our classroom! 

World Read Aloud Day with the CHS Red Jackets!

We are all missing our front teeth!!! 

We loved skyping with Miss Vincenzo's (Mrs. Vincenzo's daugher) kindergarten
class from Canyon Ranch Elementary!!

We love our school board members!!  Thank you
to Mr. Hill for coming and reading to us on
World Read Aloud Day!!!