{"id":281,"date":"2014-02-24T10:31:58","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T15:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/?p=281"},"modified":"2014-02-24T10:31:58","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T15:31:58","slug":"february-24-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/2014\/02\/24\/february-24-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"February 24, 2014."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back! \u00a0Whether you traveled or stayed close to home, I hope you enjoyed your week. \u00a0We still have snow and cold outside so make sure your child dresses appropriately. \u00a0Boots are still needed for outside and shoes are needed for inside the classroom. \u00a0Have your child put their own shoes in their backpack at night as they are setting up) for school in the morning. \u00a0This helps them with responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>READING-Our Theme for the next 3 weeks is\u00a0<strong>WEATHER AND SEASONS<\/strong>. \u00a0 This week&#8217;s unit is\u00a0<strong>Kinds of Weather.<\/strong> \u00a0 (There is a difference between &#8220;weather&#8221; and &#8220;temperature.&#8221;&#8211;Beware!)<\/p>\n<p>Our words this week are: \u00a0<strong>This \u00a0this \u00a0 Do \u00a0do<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our letter is &#8220;<strong>E \u00a0e.&#8221;<\/strong> \u00a0 We will be working with the short \u00a0e sound, as in &#8220;egg \u00a0 elephant&#8221; \u00a0 and in the middle of words, like &#8220;n<strong>e<\/strong>t \u00a0 \u00a0t<strong>e<\/strong>n.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>SPELLING-We will be working with the \u00a0&#8220;am&#8221; chunk.<\/p>\n<p>__am \u00a0 \u00a0 __am \u00a0 \u00a0 __am \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 ram \u00a0 \u00a0 Sam \u00a0 \u00a0 ham<\/p>\n<p>I will be checking for correct spelling on all previous weekly words. \u00a0(Last week&#8217;s words were\u00a0<strong>for \u00a0 you \u00a0 are) \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WRITING-For the next 3 weeks we will \u00a0return to Narrative Writing. \u00a0We also will learn about \u00a0<strong>Onomatopoeias.<\/strong> \u00a0Stay tuned!<\/p>\n<p>MATH-Since the 100th day of school is approaching, we will be working with the number 100. \u00a0We also will review pennies and nickels. \u00a0Let&#8217;s compare&#8230;who has more? \u00a0Less? \u00a0(Next week, the dime appears!)<\/p>\n<p>SCIENCE-Weight and water will be our focus.<\/p>\n<p>We had a great day on Friday, Feb. 14, celebrating St. Valentine&#8217;s Day. \u00a0The kids always enjoy delivering and opening all of their Valentines. \u00a0Such fun! \u00a0I will post some pictures later today.<\/p>\n<p>Have a good week<\/p>\n<p>.Mrs. Smith<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back! \u00a0Whether you traveled or stayed close to home, I hope you enjoyed your week. \u00a0We still have snow and cold outside so make sure your child dresses appropriately. \u00a0Boots are still needed for outside and shoes are needed for inside the classroom. \u00a0Have your child put their own shoes in their backpack at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}