Welcome to the last week of January, wow! February is soon upon us and yes we will be having a Valentine’s Day party on Feb. 14, the end of the day 
Stone Soup….you may have heard that we have been reading many different versions of a classic tale called Stone Soup. The children are enjoying this book and have asked about making, can you really eat Stone Soup??? So, we’re going to make it this week. If you are able to send in 1 vegetable of any kind to add to the soup: potato, small onion, carrot, I’ll use the brussel sprouts from last week, a bit of corn, some salt & pepper, etc. that would be great. But what I will really need is someone to send in halal beef broth, please. I’ll bring in my crock pot and we’ll make the soup Friday for the end of unit project We’ll also need 25 spoons and small styrofoam bowls or cups. 1 lucky student randomly chosen will be responsible for bringing in the small, round, smooth stone :))) If your child has not told you the story, it can be found retold on YouTube and in the library. There are many versions and it is quite fun! It’s one of my favorite folk tales Please make sure all veggies are already cut up for us. Many thanks.
Library book check-out is this Thursday so library books need to be brought to school by then.
Spelling words this week: root, chew, clue, canoe, fruit. Dolch words: two, ask, to, who, use.
Our writing genre is still opinion and this week we’ll be writing about a book we like to read using reasons to support our opinion and I know they’ll each have an opinion about the stone soup, lol.
Social studies will be learning about how local governments are organized and emphasizing the 3 branches of government–mayor, city council, judges.
Math begins a new unit and learning strategies for adding 2 or more 2 digit numbers. Mental as well as paper pencil strategies are taught. We’ll be doing some graphing as well this week.
We’re continuing our landform unit in science and will be dong an activity to show how various landforms are made.
Enjoy your week and be sure to ask your child about Stone Soup