Week of February 11-14, 2013

February 11-14, 2013

Theme: Valentine's Day

Letter of the Week: K

February 14th-Show and Share letter K

Special Events: Valentine's Day Party, February 14

Last week was a fun filled week of Robots. On Monday both classes got together with their third grade buddies and worked together to build robots. I believe everyone brought their robots home except for two. If you did not receive your child's robot home it will come home this week. We did several robot activities comparing robots by size and matching shapes on robots. We also learned about the 3D shapes: sphere, cylinder, cube and cone. We used gumdrop and toothpicks to construct our own 3D shapes. We practiced spelling color words with magnetic letters and made an R2-D2 robot for the letter R. In gym this week we worked with third grade buddies from a different class to work on jump roping skills. Hilton Elementary raised $2,000.00 for Jump Rope for Heart.

This week we will celebrating Valentine's Day. On Thursday I sent home a large piece of colored paper, please use this to wrap a cereal box and leave an opening in the container, we will use this to place Valentines day cards in so make sure your child's name is on it. We will be sorting hearts by color and counting them. We will also be practicing patterning skills with hearts. We will be working on writing when we make some Valentines day inspired cards and crafts.

On Valentines Day if your child would like to pass out cards to their friends we will be doing that at our class party. This party will be just for the kids as it will be smaller than others. When your child addresses their Valentines Day cards please have them sign their name on the card but do not put a child's name on them. At this age it is easier for them to pass out if each individual card does not have another child's name on it. We will be playing several Valentines themed games and will have a special treat for Valentines day.

For those parents who had not had a conference I will be contacting you to schedule a date and time. Thank you to the parents who came and participated in your child's conference.

Upcoming dates: No School Monday, February 18th-President's day.