Parent Letter

Dear Parents,

I'd like to congratulate two of our students in the Wed/Fri class for earning their Alphabet Crowns. Great job! And a Happy Birthday to London!

My teaching plan for February will include a variety of Valentine's Day crafts and learning projects, but the big news will be learning digraphs. (You may have called these consonant clusters while in school.) There are several high frequency digraphs that the students will encounter this month: th, ch, sh, ck, and wh will be our featured digraphs. I have small diamond shaped boxes that I will be awarding to each child as they learn these common digraphs and can read them in short vowel words. I call it the Digraph Diamond. Many a student has asked me "when do I get the diamond?" This month my friends!

Several of our students are progressing rapidly with their take home readers will be coming home over the next few weeks with their Blending Buttons.

I see many awards given out this month to encourage students to learn and to enjoy learning.

After Valentine's Day we will begin our Dinosaur Unit.

A note about Valentine's Day parties. We will be holding Valentine's Day Parties before Valentine's Day. Thursday the 10th and Friday the 11th.

T/Th Class List*
Emily
Kourtney
Bella
Christian
London

W/F Class List*
Ethan
Adam
Kate
Avery

*Noah has a Valentine for each student, he's practically the class pet. : ) Your student is welcome to bring one for Noah, but it's not expected.

There will not be school on Tuesday, Feb 15th. Tuesday students are welcome to attend Wednesday or Friday to make up the day. I apologize for the inconvenience. Noah has an outpatient procedure scheduled that day I will need to be with him at the hospital. Again, I am sorry for the schedule change but I cannot avoid it.

Looking forward to seeing you all this week!
Megan Millington