Week of January 27-31

Dear families,

Last week we finished our unit on Penguins and started an Author Study of Jan Brett. Www.janbrett.com We read The Mitten, and this week we will read The Hat, Three Snow Bears, Annie and the Wild Animals, and The First Dog. We are doing several reading, writing and counting activities about mittens. We are going to make a Jan Brett literature folder. Jan Brett is an enormously gifted illustrator of children's books and there is an opportunity to win a visit from her if you "like" her on Facebook. Fingers crossed!

We talked and wrote about winter this week. The SKs wrote about what they like and don't like about winter, and the JKs practiced matching upper and lowers case letters. We also wrote and matched winter words, and wrote rhyming -it and -at words. The JKs also practiced number formation and all the children did their January calendars.

The JKs also did a sequencing activity (a snowman melting), and the SKs completed a written activity about the compound words that have the word "snow" in them.

Our current poems/songs are The Snow Song, I Have a Cold, and Five Little Snowmen.

Our next Sharing Assembly will be this Thursday, January 30, celebrating Teamwork. I hope you can join us!

Next week we will start a unit on the Winter Olympics which promises to be fun and exciting! Go Canada go!

The week after will be the 100th Day of School (February 10) and Valentine's day. Please help your child count 100 items that fit in a zip lock bag and bring them into school by Friday, February 7. Thank you.

Thank you to Adam's dad who was Mystery Reader this week, and thank you to Lily M.'s mom and Noah P.'s mom for doing the white bags and snuggle books! Thank you as always to our Grade Parents for organizing all the parent volunteers. I would like to say a special Thank You to Melania's mom who is arranging for her friend Nel to visit our morning class and speak about her recent visit to Antartica where she saw a lot of penguins! :)

I hope you have a wonderful week! Stay warm!

Mrs. Tyndall