Wow! We can hardly believe that our year is almost half way through. Before we know it, it will be springtime.  WE HOPE!  This crazy weather has made it hard for the children to get back into a routine but they are real troopers and continue to absorb and learn.               

After break, we’ve been busy learning more letters, numbers, and sight words. We’ve also been working really hard on our letter sounds and trying to put them together to make words.  By now, we’ve studied 17 letters and 24 sight words. In math, we’re working really hard to recognize numbers up to 50 and now on to 100.             

This past month we happily studied Hh!  We learned a new song about hiccups and read a story called A House is a House for Me.  Journaling is a great way for us to practice stretching out words.  So during Hh week we glued in a paper helicopter and wrote about it. On Friday, January 15^th, we had the chance to “snuggle up with a good book.” Every child received a free book to keep. After picking out the book, we enjoyed a warm cup of hot cocoa. The Ed-Co Partners and local businesses make this RIF program possible. On January 22^nd, we had parent centers. During parent centers, we played sight word “Ouch” and hopscotch, made a paper plate owl, decorated our painted snowmen, and made snowflakes.  Thank you to all the parents who volunteer over the year to make these centers possible.  The children have such a wonderful time!             

Depending on our weather, we will be celebrating our 100^th day of school around the 8^th of February. The students are really looking forward to this day. They will be bringing in small paper sacks full of 100 items. The students will get a chance to share clues about their objects and have the class guess what is in their bag.  Later we will practice different math skills when we use our scale to weigh the different items to see which items weigh the most and the least.