February 11th - 24th
It has been a very busy month so far! We had our buddy class over on February 1st. The two classes made groundhogs, worked word searches, and had fun with secret codes. The children learned the state of Georgia has it's very own groundhog named General Lee. We found out he has predicted that we will have an early spring. We will just have to sit back and watch the weather to see if he is right.
We also had fun learning about penguins. The children learned that penguins are birds that can't fly but can swim really fast. Be sure to ask them what other information they learned. It is also one of our first grade standards to write about information we have gathered. They did a fabulous job at it too!
February is a GREAT month for many of our Social Studies standards.
We will learn about the United States of America, our past and present presidents, our flag, many landmarks and symbols. Last week we read all about "Honest Abe" and this week we will read and write about George Washington. We will continue our study with our current president and important symbols of the United States in the following weeks.
Math... We are having fun with our money unit and will be moving into telling Time next week. I expect them to do Great with the telling time for we have been working on it all year at Calendar Math.
Spelling... Keep working on those Sitton Core words with your children. They are learning to edit and proof for them in their own writitng here at school. I am very proud of their progress.
Here are 2 more websites that we did when we went to the computer lab on Friday! The children are looking forward to me getting them to you! Have fun!!
Character Word for the Week:
Acceptance... I like to teach the children to accept each other for who they are. We are all unique and wonderful individuals and need to recognize that in each other.
