February 16-18, 2010

Ms. Kirkpatrick’s Newsletter
February 16-18, 2010
Classroom News
I hope everyone had a wonderful, white weekend. I enjoyed all the beautiful snow and spent time outside this weekend. The two students who made it for school on Thursday enjoyed a short recess in the snow.
We had our Valentine’s Day party on Tuesday. I would like to thank all the parents for all the goodies that were brought.
Open House is this Friday, February 19th at 7:00pm. This is a great time to come to the classroom and see all the hard work your child does.
One of our students, Taylor, was in the hospital over the weekend with an infection, but praise God she is feeling better and will be returning to school!
Our Studies
We spent much of our time last week preparing for Valentine’s Day. Each student decorated a sack to put his or her valentines in. They were working on a gift for their parents for Valentines Day. They will finish it this week to send home.
We spent our history time talking about the history of Valentine’s Day and Saint Valentine. For Bible, we studied Psalms 118:1, which talks about the Lord’s unending love. The students copied it off the board onto heart paper.
In grammar, we began a study on pronouns. We are focusing on pronouns that replace our name (my, mine, I, me). We played a letter scavenger. They went around the room in groups and found letters that I had hidden. Then they sorted them by capital and lowercase letters.
In handwriting, we practiced the letter q. We focused on differentiating it from the letter p. Each student continues to practice his or her individual spelling lists everyday.
We are continuing to read The Adventures of Buster Bear. We just completed the sixth chapter. We have had lots of great conversations about the choices Buster Bear and Little Joe Otter have been making.