Polar animals, ice, snowmen and igloos captured our interests this month.  Some highlights included:

A pop-up igloo in the reading center

Snowman art with dictation

Penguin art with fact from home (thank you for your support with this ‘homework’)

January self-portraits

Color mixing with rock salt, eye droppers and liquid watercolor

Freeing polar animals who were frozen in ice blocks

Penguins in pretend snow

Light table

Marshmallows on letter M’s

Polar bear art with pretend snow and cotton balls

Glitter on snowflakes

Group snowman with class story – in hall

Assessments for conferences

Movement games with Sabryna’s grandpa

Visit from a pediatrician and a dentist

Calendar helper

We are three puff balls away from earning a puff ball party – hooray!!

Thank you Nylah for the blue playdough, and Jen for being our guest reader!

Next Wednesday the 29th is a school-wide “GREEN AND BLUE DAY”!  Gooooo Hawks!

I look forward to seeing you this Friday for conferences.  The schedule is attached, along with our February calendar.

Speaking of February…….. We will start an at-home journaling activity next month.  Our traveling teddy will come home with your child on aThursday and will stay with your Bear for the weekend.  There will be one journaling sheet in the backpack with the teddy.  Please help your child complete the sheet and keep it LIGHT and FUN. 🙂  Please bring the journaling sheet, traveling teddy, and backpack back to class the following Monday for your child to share.  We will make a book after everyone has a turn.

VALENTINE’S CARDS:  It is completely optional for your child to bring cards for students in class.  We are doing another activity for our friends, which you will see in Monday’s folder.

Have a fabulous weekend!

Blessings,