Mrs.

Harris
News February 10, 2017
Religion: We are reading about the liturgical year.
We are learning that each season of the church
year is about Jesus. The year begins with Advent.
Reminders
Right now it is the season of Ordinary Time.
*Bring your Valentines to class on
Tuesday.
Reading: We are reviewing long and short vowel
sounds. We have added y to the list of long vowel
*We are going to the 8:15 AM Mass on
sounds. We practiced changing the y to i rule
Wednesday. Please be on time.
when adding endings to the base word. We
practiced adding er and est to base words.
*Art Zone class is on Friday.
Math: We continued to work with related addition
*Read to Succeed reading logs are
and subtraction facts. We reviewed different
due on Wednesday, February 22.
strategies for solving problems. We practiced
solving word problems by looking for clues in the
*Save Box Tops for Education.
problem that help us choose when to add or
subtract.

Social Studies: We will watch a video clip from

Discovery Education about Presidents Day on to
help us wrap our study of the 16th President. We Happy
read several stories about President Lincoln. We Valentines
are working on a list of all the things we learned Day!
about him.

Science: We read about changing weather and

some of the tools used to measure changes in
Language Arts: We are continuing
temperature and wind speed and direction.
to practice writing sentences
properly. We are learning about
different types of punctuation. We
have been writing contractions
using apostrophes. We are writing
friendly letters and are using
commas. We are learning about
We are celebrating! the 5 parts of a friendly letter. They
Happy Birthday, Katie! are the date, the greeting,
February 9 the body, the closing and
the signature. We
Happy Birthday, Leonardo! wrote letters to
February 10 Fr. Pat.