Star Students Calendar Math 1/7-1/11 Birthdays None this week! 1/16 – IF PTO – 7:00-8:00 1/18 – Institute Day/ No School 1/21 – MLK Jr. Day/ No School 1/25 – IF Bingo Night 6:30-8:30 2/7 – Kindergarten Information & Registration Night 6:30-8:00 2/14 – Valentine’s Day Party - Early Release Day/ 12:50 Dismissal 2/16 – Institute Day/ No School 2/19 – Presidents’ Day/ No School Literacy Our book of the week is “Mrs. Wishy Washy” and the sight words are “said & us”. Please have your child practice reading and writing their sight words at home. Students will begin to practice their last names by writing it on their work. In Reading Workshop, we will begin our Nonfiction Unit of Study. Students will learn about the differences between Fiction and Nonfiction books, as well as the text features that help us understand and learn new things. Examples of these features are: Table of Contents, Captions, Bold words, and the Glossary. Students will also learn a new reading strategy: “Chunky Monkey”. This reminds students to look for small words or chunks of words they already know to help them figure out new words. In Writing Workshop, students will begin our How-to Unit of Study. We will read books that model different styles of writing that use the “how to” format. Students will work on writing “how to books” using transition words such as first, next, then and last. Birthdays None this week! Math This week students will work in Module 6 which is all about addition. They will be taking two quantities and putting them together and learning what it means to “add”. They will also practice writing equations that represent addition situations. Star Students 1/7 Colin 1/8 KJ 1/9 Beckam 1/10 Nella 1/11 Nicole *Star student gets to bring in a book to Share.