<p style="text-align: center"><strong>Reminders</strong></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">March is snack month for boys</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>April will be snack month for girls.</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.

 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.

We are having a 100<sup>th</sup> day Celebration on Friday.  Please send your children’s collection of 100 things to school with them by then.
<p style="text-align: center"><strong>This week</strong></p>

<ul>
	<li>In Math we will continue unit 5 with using standard and nonstandard measurements, and counting by 5s, and graphing.  We will be doing several activities to celebrate the number 100 on Friday.</li>
	<li>In Reading we will continue exploring letters and sounds.  We will work on 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>Students are finishing their Handwriting Without Tears workbooks during Choice Time. </li>
	<li>We will finish our unit on African Folktales by making African Storytelling drums.  These will be on display during the Gallery Walk- through on Friday. </li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: center"><strong>Important Dates to Remember</strong></p>

<ul>
	<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"><strong>Homework  </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center"><strong>Due February 26</strong></p>
Math
<ul>
	<li>Homelink 5.9 Car Color Tally</li>
	<li>Continue to collect groups of 100 for the 100<sup>th</sup> day (2-26)</li>
</ul>
 Reading
<ul>
	<li>Find five things that start with the /u/– take pictures of the object &amp; bring to school on <strong>Friday</strong></li>
	<li>Look sight words in your reading with your child and in the world around you.
<ul>
	<li>Create two sets of flash cards 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

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 
<p style="text-align: center">Have a Great Week!</p>