Weekly Update for 01/29/18

Valentine’s Day Cards

We will be celebrating Valentine’s Day on Wednesday, February 14.  Attached to the weekly memo for this week is a list of all the students in our class.  If your child would like to bring in Valentine’s Day cards to share with the class, please make sure to include of our classmates.

What are we learning this week?

Reading SOL 1.9 The student will read and demonstrate comprehension of a variety of fictional texts.

b) Set a purpose for reading.

e) Ask and answer who, what, where, when, why, and how questions about what is read.

f) Identify characters, setting, and important events.

Writing SOL 1.13 The student will write to communicate ideas of a variety of purposes. 

a) Generate ideas.

b) Focus on one topic.

c) Revise by adding descriptive words when writing about people, places, things, and events.

d) Use complete sentences in final copies.

e) Begin each sentence with a capital letter and use ending punctuation in final copies.

f) Use correct spelling for commonly used sight words and phonetically regular words in final copies.

g) Share writing with others.

Math SOL  Time

1.9  The student will investigate the passage of time and

a)   tell time to the hour and half-hour, using analog and digital clocks

b)   read and interpret a calendar

        Weekly Schedule

*Monday, January 29    No School


*Tuesday, January 30    No School   


*Wednesday, January 31 Purple Resource   256 Steps


*Thursday, February 1  Red Resource       260Steps


*Friday, February 2    Orange Resource    264 Steps

                Looking Ahead

• Feb. 8 – IWCS Board meeting
• Feb. 9 (new date) – PTA-sponsored “Snow Ball” school dance; attending students must have a parent present throughout the event
• Feb. 13 – “Donuts for Dads” (7:45 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.)
• Feb. 19 – Presidents Day: No school