Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Hello families,

Today your child is bringing home their decorated bag full of Valentines. This bag should be kept at home and not brought back to school. This is a great opportunity to strengthen some math and literacy skills. Here are a few ideas you could do with your child and their Valentines:

• Read the words they recognize and try to sound of unfamiliar words
• Read the card together and listen for rhyming words (ex: friend/end, day/say, red/said)
• Read the names of friends
• Count how many Valentines you received
• Put them in a row starting with the shortest to the tallest
• Sort the Valentines in different groups (ex: all the ones with animals, all the ones with sports, etc)

Reminders:

February 12 – NO SCHOOL – Teachers’ Convention

February 13 – NO SCHOOL – Teachers’ Convention

February 16 – NO SCHOOL – Family Day

This week we:

• learned the new vowel team sound 'ee', like in the words 'meet' and 'sweet'. Have your child read the words and sentence below!

• learned the new vowel team sound 'ee', like in the words 'read' and 'tweat'. Have your child read the words and sentence below!

learned the heart words: could. should, would, very, about

• completed a writing warm up to help us practice writing words and warm up our writing brains! Ask your child to write the words for some of these pictures at home.

• chose different pictures and added detail to our sentences to make them super sentences!

• continued to build on our addition strategies by learning how to use a number line to add numbers together. We also learned a few new words!

• learned that movement includes three important parts: 
• direction (up, down, left, rights, towards, backwards)
• speed (fast, slow)
• pathway (straight, curved, spiral, zigzag)

• We drew different pathways in our visual journal

• played various olympic games in gym! First, we watched videos from the winter olympics: skelton, bobsled, speed skating, hockey and biathlon. Next we played our own versions of these games!

SKELETON

BOBSLED

SPEED SKATING

HOCKEY

BIATHLON