<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">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!

I’ve finished Mid-Year DIBELS (district mandated assessment) testing.  Reports will be sent home upon with the report cards.

We are going to the Emerald City Theatre on Thursday to see <span style="text-decoration: underline">The True Story of the Three Little Pigs.</span> Please return field trip money AND form as soon as possible.  We will be leaving Thursday promptly at 9:15.  I still have tickets for two more parent volunteers.  Chaperones will need to pay the $11 as well.

Don’t forget, Parents, that you are invited to a Writer’s Celebration on Friday at 2:30.  Bring your favorite snack to share.  I hope everyone can attend.
<p style="text-align: center"><strong> This week</strong></p>

<ul>
	<li>In Math we will finish unit 4 by exploring two digit numbers.  We will begin unit 5 working on sequencing, extending patterns and playing Guess my Number.</li>
	<li>In Reading we will continue exploring letters and sounds.  We will work blending syllables and hearing first and last sounds of words.  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.  We will also be reading different versions of The Three Little Pigs so that we can compare the traditional version to the play we’ll see on Thursday.</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 begin lower case letters with m, h. b, f and g</li>
	<li>For Science we will continue our unit on animals. We will begin observing water snails.</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>
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<p style="text-align: center"><strong>Important Dates to Remember</strong></p>

<ul>
	<li>No School Feb. 11, 12, 15</li>
	<li>Field Trip to Emerald City Theater Feb.      4</li>
	<li>Report Cards sent home Feb. 5</li>
	<li>Writer’s Celebration Feb. 5, 2:30</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 5</strong></p>
Math
<ul>
	<li>Homelink 5.2 100<sup>th</sup> Day Project</li>
</ul>
Reading
<ul>
	<li>Find four things that start with the /r/– take pictures of the object &amp; bring to school on <strong>Friday</strong></li>
	<li>Study the following sight words: on, you, for, funny, help</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>
</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>
<p style="text-align: center"><strong>Have a Great Week!</strong></p>