January 23-27

Important Dates & Info/Reminders:

• We will have Art with Ms. Bobbi for specials next week.

• Scholastic orders are due TODAY! You can shop online here, just enter the class code Q2M6Q.

• Sweetheart Dance: February 4th- Register in advance for one of the two time slots before Thursday, February 2nd. Please limit registration to NE and MVE students only and up to 2 adult sweethearts of their choice. https://forms.gle/gABKpCyqFn8rXojbA

• February 14th: Valentine’s Day Party 9:15-10:15am, families are welcome to join the party! A flyer was sent home yesterday about making a Valentine’s Day box with your student. Please send in the decorated box by February 10th.

• Your student may send in Valentine’s for their classmates. They can write their own name in the “from” section, but please leave the “to” section blank. We have 24 students in our class.

• Read-A-Thon: January 30-February 13 Please register your student online at https://www.read-a-thon.com/readers/r/lvofry before Monday!

• Book Fair is the week of January 30th. Book Fair flyers were sent home last week. If you would like your child to shop at the Book Fair during our designated shopping time, please send in cash or printed out e-wallet. Our shopping day is Friday, February 3rd. Instructions for adding money to their e-wallet are on the half-sheet that was also sent home. Please make sure to click Mountain View as the school. If Northeast is selected by accident, we do not have a way to transfer the money from Northeast to Mountain View. If you use the e-wallet, your student will not be given change at the Book Fair.

What we learned this week:

• Reading: We read “The No-Tech Day of Play” and discussed what activities kids could do instead of using technology. They came up with a lot of fun ideas like play tag, play a board game, play with toys, and draw. We identified the characters and setting of the story using details from the text and illustrations. Students also learned how to synthesize information by combining important details and original thinking to create new understanding.

• Writing: Students sketched the beginning, middle, and end of their personal narratives. Then they wrote a sentence (or more) to describe their important events.

• Math: We are wrapping up our addition unit. Students practiced listening to an addition number story, drawing a picture and writing an equation to solve the problem.

• High Frequency Words: This week we learned short u words: run, under, up, must. Words we have learned so far: I, a, am, the, like, eat, in, it, did, into, and, we, see, go, no, so, has, as, is, his, does, box, on, was, man, am, at, that, hand, ran, friend, they, he, little, play, men, red, help, end, yes, went, get, way, away, say, day, run, up, under, must. Please continue to practice reading and writing these words at home.