Well - it was another weather week!  There isn't a lot to report.  Hopefully this week we can get a full week in.  :)

Spelling - This week we will not have a spelling list

Reading - Our word work focus is going to be word families.  We have all sorts of centers to work on this - matching centers, sorting centers, creating centers, etc.  Two of our reading groups are working together to create a puppet show play.  Here's a preview -

Math - Last week we worked on +2 and -2 equations, odds and evens, tally marks, and of course all sorts of 100 activities! One of our favorites - rolling dice to get up to 100.  We predicted how many rolls it would take.  Then we used tally marks to keep track.  It took us 30 rolls.  Another fun one we did was flipping a quarter 100 times and keeping track of how many times we get heads and tails.

Writer's Workshop - We continue to work on writing.  The students are getting better about starting with capital letters, using punctuation, and using capital/lower case letters correctly.  

In this picture you can see Luke working so hard on his story!  He filled up an entire notebook page - and then went on to the next page!  When we publish stories, I type on the bottom of the page so the students have room to illustrate.  Luke's typed story was 23 pages!  WOAH!  It was just a few short months ago that these first graders were writing a word or a phrase - Now they are writing sentences, paragraphs, and pages!  It is an amazing transformation to see!

Religion - We are going to have Mass again on February 22nd.  We will be picking parts this week.  After parts are picked I will send readings home for students to practice at home.  Our current virtue we are working on is trustworthiness.  Due to our days off and late starts we haven't been working out of our Religion book as often as we usually do.  We should be able to get back to our book this week.

Valentine's Day - We will celebrate Valentine's Day on Thursday, February 14th.  Your students can bring their valentines in any day between now and Thursday.  We will be making valentine bags at school.  They do not need to make one at home.  We'll exchange valentines at the end of the day on Thursday.

Muffins With Moms - Muffins with Moms has been rescheduled for Wednesday, February 13th.

Weidner Center - February 18th - We are going to the Weidner Center on Monday, February 18th.  Please remember to return the permission slip.

Building and creating - One of our favorite things on the 100th day was building with 100 items.  We had Legos, Duplos, Lincoln Logs, Tinker Toys, blocks, cubes, cups to stack, marshmallows, etc.  I kept the items in our classroom and the students have loved to continue building throughout the week.

Have a great week! :)