Mrs. Denning’s Weekly Newsletter 1/29/17
General Information
Literacy-
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Upcoming Events
February 9th – PTA Board meeting (6:00pm-7:00pm)
February 10th – Early Release @ 11:45
February 13th- 100th Day of School
February 14th- Valentine’s Day
February 18th – Father/Daughter Sweetheart Ball (6:00pm-8:00pm)
February 23rd- Spirit Night @ Gooey’s Grill in Wake Forest (5:00pm-8:00pm)
March 3th - Field Trip to Wakefield High School to see Red Riding Hood
March 9th- PTA Board Meeting (6:00pm-7:00pm)
March 13th –Jump Rope for Heart Pledge Collections Start for Tracks 2 & 4 (8:00am-9:00am)
March 15th- First in Fitness Event
March 23rd- Math Night (6:00pm-7:30pm)
March 24th – Early Release @ 11:45
General Information
- Please help your child learn how to zip, button, and/or snap his/her winter coat. We will play outside each day unless it is raining so please make sure your child comes to school with a coat he/she may wear on the playground. Please also make sure your child’s name is inside his/her coat, hat, mittens, etc. as these items have the tendency to be misplaced.
- Please support your child at home by reading with him/her nightly, ensuring homework is completed AND working as a family to complete the monthly homework projects.
Literacy-
- With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story
- With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text
- Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
- Recognize and name end punctuation
- Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose opinion pieces
- Students will read long vowel words with a silent e.
- Students will recognize and read irregularly spelled words.
- Describe objects in the environment using names of shapes, and describe the relative positions of these objects using terms such as above, below, beside, in front of, behind, and next to.
- Correctly name shapes regardless of their orientations or overall size.
- Analyze and compare two- and three-dimensional shapes, in different sizes and orientations, using informal language to describe their similarities, differences, parts (e.g., number of sides, and vertices/”corners”) and other attributes (e.g., having sides of equal length).
- Model shapes in the world by building shapes from components
- Students will explain why national holidays are celebrated (New Year’s and Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.)
- Students will write resolutions/goals for 2017.
- Students will predict the effect of balancing and the force of motion.
- They will also explain the importance of pushing and pulling
before, again, did, find, girl, her, in, old, made, she, so, them, who
Upcoming Events
February 9th – PTA Board meeting (6:00pm-7:00pm)
February 10th – Early Release @ 11:45
February 13th- 100th Day of School
February 14th- Valentine’s Day
February 18th – Father/Daughter Sweetheart Ball (6:00pm-8:00pm)
February 23rd- Spirit Night @ Gooey’s Grill in Wake Forest (5:00pm-8:00pm)
March 3th - Field Trip to Wakefield High School to see Red Riding Hood
March 9th- PTA Board Meeting (6:00pm-7:00pm)
March 13th –Jump Rope for Heart Pledge Collections Start for Tracks 2 & 4 (8:00am-9:00am)
March 15th- First in Fitness Event
March 23rd- Math Night (6:00pm-7:30pm)
March 24th – Early Release @ 11:45