Important Dates & Reminders

• Presidents Day: February 20 (no school)

Language Arts

What are we learning?

We will be looking at: 

• Use vocabulary from other content areas in literacy tasks.
• Retell stories using the characters, settings, and events in the correct sequence from beginning to end.
• Identify and describe the characters, settings, and important events in a story using details.
• Use knowledge from your own experience to make sense of and talk about a text.
• Identify the main idea and key details
• Demonstrate comprehension through writing

Home/School Connection

• Encourage your child to read at home for 20 minutes every night.
• Practice reading unfamiliar words and ask questions about the meaning.
• Learn new vocabulary from other content areas. 
• Discuss  the meaning of unknown words and make connections to familiar words

Math

What are we learning?

• We will create and solve single-step story and picture problems using addition and subtraction within 10.
• We will recognize and describe with fluency part whole relationships for numbers up to 10.
• We will demonstrate fluency with addition and subtraction within 10.
• We will demonstrate an understanding of equality through the use of the equal symbol

Home/School Connection

• Creating and solving addition and subtraction story problems
• Practice structuring to 10 (asking: What goes with 5 to make 10? What goes with 8 to make 10?)

Science

What are we learning?

• We will be learning about: 
  • Plants’/animals’ response to seasonal changes, animal homes, and body coverings, plant parts, basic needs of plants

Home/School Connection

• Explore books about plants and animals (MyOn or Pebble go)
• Discuss different animal body coverings (scales, feathers, fur)
• Discuss different plant parts and what they need to survive 

Social Studies

What are we learning?

• We will be diving into topics about: Courage, Martin Luther King, Jr.,  Virginians Building a New Nation Washington, Jefferson, Presidents’ Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, Economics Money and savings,  Geography Land, water, and climate

Home/School Connection

• Have conversations with your child about how people of the past have influenced the present.
• Try to read maps and think about the impact of geography on culture.
• Have conversations about rules, laws, and becoming a good citizen.