<p style="text-align: center">Reminders</p>

<ul>
	<li>The green and white Ray School folder will come home only on Fridays full of notes for you to read.  Please read and respond appropriately.  Send the folder back on Monday.  This is a good way to send lunch money as well.</li>
	<li>The red folder will come home Monday with homework.  Please work on it a little bit at a time each day with your child and return in on Friday.</li>
	<li>Please send lunch/milk money for the week on Mondays.</li>
	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline">February is snack month for girls</span>.  Please send in a healthy snack, enough for 25 students.  We do have a peanut allergy so please be careful in choosing your snack.</li>
	<li>March will be snack month for boys.</li>
	<li>Ms. Travis Traveling Library books (in clear bag) come home on Wednesdays and should be returned Tuesdays.</li>
	<li>Library books (in the green bag) are chosen by the student and should be returned on Fridays.</li>
</ul>
Remember that school starts at 9:00.  A school wide “contest” has begun in which the class with the best on-time attendance will win a pizza party.  Let’s give it our best shot!

Show and Tell – I’m asking students to only bring items to share on Mondays (or the first day of the school week).  Please do not allow students to bring toys/items on any other day of the week.

Writer’s Celebration rescheduled for THIS FRIDAY!  2:30pm.  Please plan to attend and bring a snack.  Students will share some recent writing they’ve been doing.

We will be taking a field trip to the Shedd Aquarium on February 24<sup>th</sup>.  The form is included in your folder this week.  Please return it as soon as possible.  All parents are welcome to chaperone but will need to pay the $4.25.
<p style="text-align: center">This week</p>

<ul>
	<li>In Math we will continue unit 5 with using standard and nonstandard measurements, and counting by 5s, counting and recording information with tally marks.  Please remember to continue collecting groups of 100 for our 100<sup>th</sup> day celebration.</li>
	<li>In Reading we will continue exploring letters and sounds.  We will work recognizing and writing high frequency words and building sentences.  We will use shared reading to explore phonics and comprehension strategies.  We will continue to build stamina for reading to ourselves.  I will pull small reading groups to work on decoding and comprehension skills.  Students are creating letter books, practicing sounding out and writing words with particular beginning sounds.</li>
	<li>In Writing we will continue to discuss stretching words to write them and planning details for our stories.  Students will continue to tell those stories through drawing pictures and writing words, when they can.  They’ve been making “books” to illustrate and write stories with a beginning, middle and end.  We will continue to talk about beginning, middle and end.</li>
	<li>For Handwriting we will finish our Handwriting Without Tears workbook and review our letters.</li>
	<li>For Science we will continue our unit on animals. We will have snail races where we will explore what makes a snail move.</li>
	<li>Over the next few weeks we will be reading and studying about other famous African Americans as we prepare for African American History month.  We will also be reading African Folk tales.</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: center">Important Dates to Remember</p>

<ul>
	<li>Writer’s Celebration February 19<sup>th</sup> 2:30pm.</li>
	<li>February 24<sup>th</sup> Field Trip to      the Shedd Aquarium</li>
	<li>Feb. 26 is the 100<sup>th</sup> Day of      School</li>
	<li>African American History Month Gallery      Walk-through Feb. 26</li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: center">Homework</p>
<p style="text-align: center">Due February 19</p>
Math
<ul>
	<li>Homelink 5.7      Measuring with Feet</li>
	<li>Continue to collect      groups of 100 for the 100<sup>th</sup> day (2-26)</li>
</ul>
Reading
<ul>
	<li>Find four things that start with the /t/– take pictures of the object &amp; bring to school on <strong>Friday</strong></li>
	<li>Study the following sight words: not, play, said, up where</li>
	<li>Look for those words in your reading with your child and in the world around you.
<ul>
	<li>Create another set and play a matching game.</li>
	<li>Create sentences with the sight words we’ve studied this year for your child to read</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Listen to someone read aloud to them for ten minutes each day</li>
	<li>Fill out reading log</li>
</ul>
Writing
<ul>
	<li>Complete reading response page for a book the student has read (or had read to him/her) this week.</li>
</ul>
Sight Word list as of 2-15-2010

A

He

No

At

In

See

And

The

Is

Me

I

An

So

Am

It

To

Can

Do

Up

Go

We

Like

On

My

Blue

Yellow

Orange

Red

Green

White

Black

Purple

One

Two

Three

Four

Five

Away

Big

Come

Down

Find

On

You

For

Funny

Help

Here

Jump

Little

Look

Make

Not

Play

Said

Up

Where

Have a Great Week!