Friday Fun Facts!

Happy Friday!  It was a great week for us to get outside and enjoy the warmer weather.  Recess was an exciting part of our day this week!  A big thank you to all of the parents that joined us for the Valentine party!  It was a great success because of you.  The class is still talking about how much fun they all had on Tuesday.

We have a couple of great activities coming up at CE.  First, if you are interested in ordering a yearbook, you can do that now until March 30th.  A flyer was sent home earlier with the detailed information.  If you need another one, feel free to let me know.  Also, next Friday night is Family Fitness Night.  This is a fun activity for all of the family to come and learn about your health and enjoy participating in some healthy activities as well.

We wrapped up our socials studies unit on families this week in class.  We talked about what it means to be a family and how families get along.  We also learned about what kinds of activities families can do together. 

The children have been working really hard on their writing over the course of this week.  I have been so excited to share with the class all of the great things I have been seeing.  During the past two days, we have been focused on including a closing sentence when writing a story.  We talked about how a closing sentence could be a question or a feeling statement.  Next week, we will begin a writing unit on persuasive stories.

During our OG time this week, we worked on the phonemes -ck, and -ed.  The children learned that you would write a -ck at the end of a short word after a short vowel.  We also discussed how -ed has three different sounds.  Next week, we are going to bump up our instruction in class and start working on syllabication in the classroom.  This is a time when we work on learning how to analyze the different syllables in a word. 

As a quick reminder- No school on Monday.  Have a great President's Day weekend!