January Newsletter

Hello parents,

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas break.  Thank you so much for all of the wonderful gifts that I was given at Christmas.  You are so generous.  I feel so blessed to be a part of your lives.  Thank you for your work with the Christmas party.  The children had a great time. 

Handwriting: We are continuing to work in our handwriting journals each day to practice letter/number formation.   

Reading:Please continue to read and practice sight word recognition with your child each night. You can send a note to let me know if you know that your child is ready to read for the next level. The children are making great progress with their reading. 

Sight words for this month are below:

Week of  January 17^th-

Live, he, what, all, say

Week of January 23rd –

Know, take, love, just, eat

Week of January 30^th-

Many, new, he, she, never

Math:Please continue to practice the following:

-writing numerals 1-50

-number recognition 1-100

- money recognition- penny, nickel, dime ,

   and quarter

We will be working at school on number families, charts and graphs, addition and constructing a 100’s chart.    

January 12^th and 13^th Conferences

School will be dismissed at 11:30 on both days.  Aftercare is available on these days.  You will need to send a lunch to school if your child will be staying for aftercare.  These conferences are mandatory.  Everyone is asked to please schedule a day and time that works best with your schedule.  Report cards will be given at these conferences. I will send an email with the times available for conferences and will assign your time on a first come, first serve basis.   

Important dates to remember

January 6^th- Show and Tell- Please have your child bring one of his/her favorite Christmas gifts to show the class.  Please make sure it is able to fit in their backpack/cubby.

January 11^th- CDM will visit our classroom  

January 12^th and 13^th- Dismissal at 11:30

January 12^th and 13^th- Mandatory Conferences

January 16^th – No school-Martin Luther King Day

January 31^st- 100^th day of school celebration-Very soon we will celebrate having attended 100 days of school! (Can you believe it?)I have special activities for the children that day. 

Please start a collection of 100 items now if you have not already done so (make sure the items are not too big).  Some suggestions are buttons, small candies, pennies, small rocks, shells, chocolate chips, etc.  If you wish to and have time, you and your child could make a display of the items.  Otherwise, put the collection in an unbreakable container (no glass, please) or a zip lock bag to be brought to school for our special celebration.  We will also dress up as we think we will look when we are 100 years old.