Happy Monday 🙂  I am VERY much looking forward to an actual full week of school so we can get back into our groove!!!

Report cards came home today!!!!  Please check your child’s home folder – it is on yellow paper.

TOMORROW – is class color day.  Our class voted to wear BLUE.

Book It – I sent the February calendar home today, but it looks different than the previous ones.  This month instead of counting days, we will be counting minutes.  So every day your child reads, please write in the number of minutes they read.  I did an example on the calendar.  You DO NOT have to sign the calendar every day, but please try to sign at the end of every week where they total up the minutes.  To earn their free pizza certificate, we are looking for a total of 400 minutes for the whole month.  Before you send it back in at the end of the month, please add up your child’s minutes for the whole month and write it on the calendar.

Don’t forget to send back January calendars.  They need 21 days colored to earn their free pizza certificate.

Spelling –  For some reason there were 6 pattern words this week (back, duck, pick, dock, deck, lack), so your child only chose 4 words of their own.

I thought they did an EXCELLENT job last Friday doing our spelling test the new way 🙂

Valentine’s Day – I know it is still 11 days away, but Yasmeen was talking about going shopping tonight to buy her cards, lol, so just in case anybody else wanted to get a head start on Valentine cards I sent home a class list of our students on green paper.  If your child is planning to pass out cards, I let them know that they must have one for every student in our room – so they can use the list to address their cards.

We will have a very low key celebration on Valentine’s Day.  I am still recovering from Birthday Bash 😉  We are planning a craft (with our left over money), a snack, and on passing out cards.  I will also be looking for a few families to send in cookies or juice – but that can wait until it gets closer.

January PBiS reward – EVERY student in our classroom has earned the January behavior reward.  That means that nobody flipped their card to yellow more than 5 times this month.  This is actually the 4th month (out of 5)  that everybody has gotten to be a part of the behavior celebration – we are just that awesome 🙂

Here are some pics of the Mad Science assembly we enjoyed this morning: