Kriletown Adventures - Week 21

Welcome to week twenty one of Kriletown News.  Here is a look into our adventures this week.

Important Dates

• Monday, February 10 - NAAPID

• Wednesday, February 11 - 100th Day of School TENTATIVELY

• Tuesday, February 12 - Fancy Nancy Friendship Day

• Friday, February 14-Tuesday, February 18 - No School, Mid-Winter Break

• Wednesday, February 19 - School Resumes

• Tuesday, March 4 - Early Release - 1:00 Dismissal

Curriculum

Word Work

This week we worked with the trigraph dge and tch. We continue to work on nouns, verbs and adjectives. Our heart words this week were, move, will, and down. These are words that do not follow traditional spelling rules. Our FANCY vocabulary words were ’stupendous', ’nibble', ‘champion', 'and ’remember’. 

Reading

This week we read books about winter adventures. We also read and reviewed what it means to be brave.

Math

We celebrated the 90 day of school. We worked with sums of 10, measuring and how to explain our thinking when adding and subtracting.

Writer’s Workshop

We continued writing our nonfiction reports. I am SO impressed with the writing your students have done so far.

Social/Emotional Learning - Life Skills

This week we discussed what it means to be creative. We had a great discussion about how creativity takes many different forms. 

Social Studies/Science

This week  continue to work on my favorite science unit HABITATS! We learned all about the tundra and grasslands. During this unit we will be visiting the grasslands, rainforest, tundra, forest, ocean and freshwater.

School Stuff:

STAMP DONATIONS

Kriletown in participating in Happy Mail around the country. First grades from around the country are practicing letter writing and map reading. Our goal is to send and receive a letter from all 50 states. To make this possible we need stamp donations. If you are able please send in with your little next week.

FANCY NANCY FRIENDSHIP DAY February 12th

Enclosed in your students Friday folder is a class list. If your student chooses to bring in Valentine cards please be sure to send one for each student. Please send your little in fancy clothes for the celebration. These can be over the top fun silly outfits. Google the character Fancy Nancy to get great ideas of how this character celebrates and loves life. We will be reading all of her books the next few weeks!

DALMATIAN DAY February 19th

Please send your student in a creative Dalmatian outfit to celebrate the 101st day of school. The idea of this activity is to encourage your student to be creative!! You do not need to purchase anything. This will be a day of fun to celebrate the 101st day of school! You can find easy dress up ideas on Pintrest. 

From past newsletters....

SCHOLASTIC BOOKS

Book orders went home last week. If you would like to order our class code is....

Class Code

LC2KC

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 :) 

Computers

 Please be sure to send the computer FULLY charged each day. We use them daily. 

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

School no longer provides hand sanitizer to classrooms. To prevent illness I have the children sanitize before both snacks and coming back from specials. If you are able to donate a large bottle we would really appreciate it!! 

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

Have a great weekend with your little!