February 22-25, 2010

Ms. Kirkpatrick’s Newsletter
February 22-25, 2010
Classroom News
We had a very successful Open House on Friday. We had two families attend as well as two new families.
Taylor has a birthday at the end of the week. She was a leap year baby.
The Flint Academy is collecting shoes for the Mission Possible Kids ministry to send to Haiti. There will be a box to collect them at the front of the building. This is a great service opportunity. The shoes can be gently used or new.
We will begin a study on birds this week. I would like to take the students to Veteran’s park to go on a nature walk to look and listen for birds. There will be a permission slip sent home today. Please return it by Wednesday.
I am also planning a field trip to the Dallas Aquarium March 25th. Please let me know if you are interested in attending because I need to make reservation this week and pay the deposit. Unfortunately there will be no discount for adults who attend.
Our Studies
For phonics, each student had their own Valentine’s Day phonic worksheet. They read words and glued them on the corresponding vowel sound to make a heart.
In math, they also did their own Valentine’s Day worksheet by completing equations and coloring by the code to spell love. Each student got their own candy hearts to sort by colors and then graph. We also did several estimation activities. They had to estimate how many candy hearts would fit inside a heart, then they put the hearts in and counted. Lastly, they estimated how many suckers were in a clear bag. As a class we counted and the closest student got to take it home, Nate.
We concluded our study on Thomas Jefferson. The posters the students made are on display in the hallway. Also on display in the hall, are the students’ illustrations of chapters 1-6 of The Adventures of Buster Bear.
In spelling, the class practiced spelling love by gluing candy hearts on the letters. In grammar, we reviewed the pronouns my, mine, I, me. Each student took turns covering up their name in sentences with the appropriate pronouns.
Our focus this week in Bible was on the kindness King David showed to his friend Jonathan’s crippled son. Each student thought up ways to show kindness to their family members and were awarded Kindness Badges.