- February Calendar
February 2nd, Thursday is Groundhog's Day: our class will discuss hibernating animals again as review
February 3rd- Early Dismissal 12:45 and Free Dress
February 7th, Tuesday will be the eagle visit from the Ogden Nature Center
February 9th , Thursday is an in-class lesson with our School Counselor
February 14th, Valentine’s Day Friendship note exchange- Bring those Valentine notes and remember NO candy, thanks!
February 17th, Friday ~ No school for OPA students-Parent Teacher Conferences 8 AM-12 noon
February 20th , Monday- No School; President's Day holiday
February 25th, Saturday- OPA will be hosting a Seed Swap event in the Elementary Gym. Please visit ogdenseedexchange@gmail.com or Ogden Seed Exchange on Facebook.
February 25th, Saturday- OPA will be hosting a Seed Swap event in the Elementary Gym. Please visit ogdenseedexchange@gmail.com or Ogden Seed Exchange on Facebook.
WOW, it is already February. The school year is passing so quickly.
- Eagle Study
During January we have been learning all about eagles and studying the differences between fiction and non-fiction literature and books. The highlight of this learning experience is the visit of “Des Ta Te” from the Ogden Nature Center coming to our classroom on Feb. 7th. Seeing the bird up close and being able to ask the handler questions will be so exciting!
We have learned so much about Eagles and are getting so excited for our eagle visit. We are writing a book that each student will have the choice to submit to the Love your Library Contest by February 14th. Here are some awesome facts we have learned that you can talk about with your student.
- Eagles favorite food is salmon.
- Eagles live in nests built in tall trees up to 80 feet high in the air.
- Eagles nests can be 3 ft to 9 ft wide.
- Eagles have around 7,000 feathers.
- When eagles catch fish that are too heavy for them they will hold onto the fish with their talons and use their wings to swim to the shore.
- Baby eagles are called eaglets.
- Pizza Hut Coupons
I sent Pizza Hut certificates home in the red folder this week again for January Reading minutes. Be sure to use them in 30 days or less. There is no money needed to redeem the coupon. The kids are very excited about going to Pizza Hut. Thanks for reading with your child! Remember, reading in Kindergarten is: doing my homework, someone reading to me, the student reading and finding "snap words", practicing letters and snap words, name writing, reading the pictures in books and retelling story to someone or reading on RAZkids.
- Valentine Cards or Friendship Notes
We will be passing out Valentine cards or nice notes to friends on Tuesday, February 14th. If your belief system does not include valentine cards please have your child draw a picture on paper or write a message and sign the note from and their name. This way each child will be able to complete the assigned homework for that week and practice writing the snap word "from" 22 times.
- Students may bring in Valentine cards or Friendship cards on Tuesday, Feb. 14th. Please do not send candy in the cards. The cards may have stickers, pencils, etc. if you desire. We do not address the cards to a specific person. It takes too long to pass them out, but we are working on the snap word “from”. I ask that they write from _______(their name) on each card so they can just drop one of their cards into everyone’s bag. We have 22 students in our Kindergarten class. We will be making Heart Buddy sacks in class so they do not need to bring in a box for their Valentines. This activity will be centered on reviewing and reinforcing the Spanish concepts of body parts vocabulary.
- LOOKING BACK ..........
- Ogden Treehouse Museum Fieldtrip
- We celebrated the 100th day of Kindergarten!
Counting 100 gumballs
FUN! FUN! on 100 day
Counting collections; learning to count to 100 skip counting by 10's
This is what I might look like at 100 years old!
Thanks for the great counting collections. The students had fun mingling with friends and telling them the clues and trying to guess one another's collections. It was a fun day and we will continue our learning numbers up to 100 for the remainder of the school year.
LOOKING FORWARD- goals
- Words Their Way Spelling Sorts
Please make sure to review the sort, cut apart and sort into word patterns. The majority of the students are now in word sorts and they will no longer sort their cards for the test at school. Each student will write the words from their sort each week for the test. Please write the words on the sorting mat Wednesday and return in folder on Thursday. Also, take a practice test on Thursday night at home by writing words in a tray of salt or a dab of shaving cream on the counter. We will have WTW Spelling the week of the 6th and the 27th this month. If your child has not returned their colored star envelope please help them find it and return to the class as soon as possible. Thanks for your support!
- Safety Skills
If your child does not have all of his/her safety skills passed off you will want to work extra hard on them this month. They are part of 3rd quarter grades and this term will end on March 11th. We will be checking students each week for mastery of these skills; write and recognize first and last names, recite and write phone number and recite only address. If you still have not sent back the address that you would like your child to memorize please send it on Monday Feb. 1st.
- Assessments
Please review the Language Arts Unit 4 test, Math Units 10 and 11, WTW Spelling tests and DIBELS reading assessments found in your child's Home Learn folder this month or given to you at Parent Teacher Conferences. Look at each one and celebrate growth and please, please review skills not yet mastered.
- Habit 6 - Synegize; learn to work well with others and appreciate differences
Habit #6 Synergize will be the Leader in Me focus for this month.
Have a fabulous February!
