Happy New Year!! Kriletown Adventures - Week 18

 Happy New Year!! Welcome to week eighteen of Kriletown News. 

As a reward for such a wonderful first week back together the kids and I are going to have a jammie/lovie day this Friday, January 10th For those who want to participate please send your little in warm cozy pajamas with their favorite lovie (the lovie MUST fit in a backpack). Slippers and robes are also welcome. Keep in mind the temps are going to be COLD Friday so send in winter gear for recess and gym shoes for gym.

Here is a look into what we have been learning during week 18 of our Kriletown adventures. 

Important Dates

• Monday, January 20 - No School, MLK Day

• Wednesday, January 29 - Early Release Day, 1:00 pm dismissal

• TENTATIVE 100th day of school celebration Friday, February 1st

• TENTATIVE 101st AKA Dalmatian Day celebration Monday, February 10th

• Fancy Nancy Friendship Day (AKA Valentines celebration) Thursday, February 13th

• Mid Winter break Friday, February 14-18

Curriculum

Word Work

This week we worked with -ed and -ing at the end of words. We learned all about verbs as action words. We reviewed blends at the beginning of words. Our heart words this week were am, just, any, many and been. These are words that do not follow traditional spelling rules. Our FANCY vocabulary words were ’empathy', ’embarrassed', ‘fascinating', 'and ’sibling’. 

Reading

This week we started a study of nonfiction. We will be learning the key text features of a non-fiction book and begin to write our own. We also enjoyed books with silly holiday themes. We learned all about National Bubble Bath Day, National Law Enforcement Appreciation and National Save the Eagles Day.

Math

We celebrated the 80 day of school. We worked with sums of 10, place value, even and odd as well as created a bar graph.

Writer’s Workshop

We brainstormed ideas for our informational reports.

Social/Emotional Learning - Life Skills

This week we discussed how our classroom is like a family. We compared the rules of home with the rules of school and discussed why they are different. We discussed kindness, respect and empathy for one another.

Social Studies/Science

This week we started my favorite science unit of the year HABITATS! We learned all about the desert. Ask your child to share with you what they learned about both hot and cold deserts. During this unit we will be visiting the grasslands, rainforest, tundra, forest, ocean and freshwater.

New Year's Resolutions

The kids and I discussed resolutions/personal goals this week. We each set a new personal goal for the rest of first grade. I have included them on progress reports. I was so impressed with the goals everyone set for themselves, so mature!!

School Stuff:

SCHOLASTIC BOOKS

You will find a winter order in your littles Friday Folder. If you would like to order our class code is....

Class Code

LC2KC

SNACK DONATIONS

We need January snack donation please. 

COMPUTERS

Thank you SO much for sending in charged laptops!! 

From past newsletters....

Class books

These books will are making their way to each of your homes. When a large manila envelope comes home in your littles backpack please read through the book together and return the next school day. If you would like to leave a book review on a class book that comes home. Please attach a post it note to the large envelope. The littles love to hear what you think of their creations :) 

Attendance Line

When your student is absent please use the following email to report the absence log_attendance@aaps.k12.mi.us

Instagram

If you would like to see adventures from our days together you can request to follow @Kriletown. 

Donations

To donate much needed items you can find the Kriletown wishlist here. 

Have a great weekend with your little!