Math Workshop

We continued our temperature, time, and calendar routines, with Kim leading these activities as our “beautiful assistant.” We talked about the presidents on our coins and bills, worked on money notations, and played store with change. We continue our weekly timed practice for addition. Please practice their math facts to 20 with your child each day.

Book Clubs

This is what our groups worked on this week:

N-E-Ds: Dick and Jane and sl/sc/sw/sn.

Stars: Tongue twisters and ch.

Stripes: “Cookies” and a vowel game.

Washingtons: Scholastic News and the vowel game.

Lincolns and Bald Eagles: Pecos Bill and long -a patterns, plus Letter Getter and the Possum Lodge Word Game.

Science/Theme

We examined products of the Silk Road at the Co-op on Tuesday. Thank you to drivers Lynn (driving Pattie's van), Bob, Michael, Sherry, Guiliana, and Nancy. This week we also finished our carpet designs and made the Arabic words for peace, hope, freedom, and thank you. The students did a desert-themed word search with Autumn.

Stories

Cathy Namenek gave the class Miss Smith's Incredible Storybook, which was incredible fun! We also heard Will you Be My Valentine? at Michael's suggestion. It was Michael's secret surprise for me that the main character in the book was named Gretchen!

Special and Noteworthy

Thank you to Louie and Lelia Cross for visiting us in their Kurdish clothes and sharing artifacts and greetings from Iraq. The students really enjoyed this.

And, of course, thanks to all the families who helped their children prepare Valentines. It was a cheerful, colorful sight!