Hoot 26

February has been an eventful month!

We've had the "best day ever" yet last week on Valentine's Day. How sweet! Thank you for sending all those yummy AND healthy ingredients for our lovely pink smoothie!

Parent conferences were held on February 10th. If you haven't had a chance to visit with me about your child's progress, please sign up.

The girl scouts didn't make it on Monday (due to the snow/sleet that day). We will reschedule the Girl Scouts Tea Party. In the meantime, I pulled out my electric tea kettle. If your child enjoys tea, please send a few herbal tea bags, honey, and a ceramic mug, so we can sip away!

We worked on the letter V (for Valentine) last week and the word families with the vowel "i."
If you wish to practice or print out a set of phonics readers yourself, here is the information:
Measured Mom Phonics Readers: http://www.themeasuredmom.com/free-phonics-books/
The new sight words are HAVE and HAS.

This week we will be focusing on letter W.
The sight words will be WAS and WERE.

In math we will be working on combining (composing/decomposing) numbers up to 10.

This week's events:
Monday-Tuesday: pizza orders are due
Wednesday: walking field trip to the Fechin House. I plan to leave by 10 and we will be back by 1:30. If the warm weather prevails, we will be having a picnic lunch and lunch recess in the park.
Thursday: PIZZA day

Upcoming events:
February 28: students of the month assembly on Manzanares campus at 2pm. Recipients will be announced this week.
March 2: TISA's Annual Read-a-thon (please see Hoot 27 for details) on Dr Seuss's birthday

I am not creating a snack calendar for the upcoming weeks because we have been fortunate to receive snack donations from the Shared Table. A huge "thank you" to Megan Avina for coordinating this!

There is a staff change in kindergarten. Miss Rosalie will be taking Miss Laurie's place. Please help your child with this transition and welcome Miss Rosalie to our sweet community. Thank you for your understanding.

Additional needs:
headphones, crayola markers, twister crayons, and new goodies for our treasure chest.

I am ever so thankful for your dedication and support to our school and class!