February Newsletter

What We Have Been Working On In February:

· Language Arts/Reading: We have been working on blending and segmenting and also beginning and ending sounds. Challenge them with these skills whenever you have a few minutes. These are important skills when reading and all the students are reading, even if its only a word they see up around the room. It is a very exciting experience for us!
· Math: Our main focus has been measuring using our feet and standard feet and making sure we use a label (F for feet). We’ve also focused on simple addition and writing a number model (1 + 4= 5).
· Science: Nathan from Jasper County Conservation was here to talk about Groundhogs Day and also about fish.
· Social Studies: We learned about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
· Writing: Students have been working hard on using a finger space between each word in a sentence, using only an uppercase letter at the beginning of a sentence, and some form of punctuation at the end of the sentence. They have come so far since the beginning of the year. Please keep working at home with them on their writing. I am so proud of their progress!


Important Dates:

March 17th and 22nd– Parent/Teacher Conferences
March 23rd-27th– Spring Break-No School


Special points of interest:

· Please continue to work on tying shoes at home. I still have a lot of kids who don’t know how to tie their shoes!
· Please remember to try to get your student to school on time (before 8:10) each morning.
· Conferences will be held at the same time you signed up for last Fall. I will be sending a note home next week with the time and date of your conference. Please let me know if this doesn’t work for you.


Please feel free to contact me at any time!
Phone Number:
(641) 792-2498 ext. 1548
Email:
holdenm@newton.k12.ia.us