Happy Saturday Everyone,
Lots of things coming up this week. Tuesday is Valentine’s Day. We will not be having our Valentine’s party that day due to music and P.E. Instead, we will have our party on Wednesday the 15th. We will have it from 10:30 till about noon. This will give us time to clean up, eat, and hand out cards before going home at 1. We would love volunteers to come help and also to donate things for the party. Here is the sign up for what we need: https://www.wejoinin.com/sheets/xcyes.
If your child wants to hand out cards, treats, little goodies, etc., we have 30 students in our class. From past experience, the way it works best is to just put who it is from and not who it is to. That way, the students aren’t searching through all their cards to find the one for a certain student. We also will not be decorating boxes at school. If you child wants to decorate one at home and bring it, that is perfectly fine. We will decorate manila envelops to put their goodies in at school.
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday are parent teacher conferences. These days will be early out days so please plan on your child being picked up at 1 p.m. Conferences will start at 1:40. You may bring your child if you would like but it is not necessary for these conferences. Here is the sign up for PTC if you have not had a chance to sign up yet: https://www.wejoinin.com/sheets/fwijs.
During conferences we will also be having the book fair in the library. It will be Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday from 1 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
We will not have school Monday, February 20th, because of presidents day. Box tops store will be Tuesday, the 21st.
I sent home papers with the president your child has been assigned to do a biography on for the home project this month. If you did not get that paper, please let me know and I will email you who your child has been assigned. Some things to include on this biography are
- A picture of the president
- Birthday and place
- When they were president and what number they were
- Something they did while president
- Wife’s name and a fact about her
- Date and how died (if applicable)
Please feel free to help your child include more information is desired.
Ms. SarahJo has been teaching us about different artists. One we just learned a bit about it Andy Warhol. We created presidential prints inspired by the prints he did of multiple celebrities like Marilyn Monroe. This will be on display on the wire hangers at the front of the school as well as outside of our classroom. You will also see art inspired by Jean-Michal Basquait.
We learned about alliteration this week. We used Dr. Seuss’ ABC book for this and then wrote our own alliterations based around a certain animal that starts with a certain letter. We are excited to show you these at conferences.
Enjoy the rest of the weekend.
Jalee