Reminder: MN Science Museum Field Trip FEB. 23rd! :)

• This Friday, February 23rd: College T-Shirt and OSA at 2:45. If you are attending the OSA and bringing your child home from the OSA, please let your child's teacher know by noon on Friday so we can have your child bring their end of day items. If we don't have advance notice, you will simply pick your child up in carline. 

• All next week: Pennies for Patients!  Cologne Academy is running this fundraiser for children with leukemia and lymphoma. Here's "what kind of money" to send each day: Monday-pennies; Tuesday-nickels; Wednesday-dimes; Thursday-quarters; Friday-$3 means you can wear a hat! Classes are competing for the most weight in their jars. Empty out those coin purses and piggy banks!

• Wednesday, February 28th: Spring Photos. Only the students who are ordering pictures will be photographed. Students may change their clothes for the picture, but must be in uniform before and after the photos.

• Friday, March 2nd and Saturday, March 3rd at 7:00 pm: Middle School Musical of "The Music Man"! Come and support the arts and the hard work these students have put in!

Here’s what our CA first graders are learning in our 25th week:

IRA: These next few week we will focus on poetry and its elements of rhyme, rhythm, and repetition. We will be searching for these concepts throughout multiple types of poems.

Phonics:  We will begin with long vowel vs short vowel review this week. (For example: short a in cat, and long a in game)

Writing: We have been working hard on learning how to put a nonfiction informational piece together. Taking facts and putting them into three cateories of are, have, and can.  (Penguins are birds. Penguins have feathers. Penguins can slide on their bellies.)  The students are doing an amazing job.

Math: We will continue with fractions this week, and focus on writing, reading, and creating fractions. We will also review some concepts like graphing and 2D & 3D shapes.
 

IXL: If you would like to use IXL at home, we recommend these sections for practice this week:

• Counting and Number Patterns (Section A)
• Addition (Section B, C & D)
• Subtraction (Section E, F, G & H)
• Mixed Operations (Section J) 
• Comparing (Section K)
• Place Value (Section M)
• Spacial Sense (Section N)
• 2D and 3D shapes (Setion V)

Core Knowledge: We will begin a new unit on astronomy, including planets, moon, and of course stars.

Core Virtue: February is Loyality

News:

Early Release Dates:

Friday, March, 23rd

Friday, May 25th

February 12th
Conferences

February 15th

Class party at 1:00
Conferences

February 16th and 19th
No School

February 23rd

Science Museum trip

OSA

College t-shirts

Conferences will be held Monday, February 12 from 4:00-8:00 pm and Thursday, February 15 from 4:00-8:00 pm.

Grades K-2:  Please sign up with Homeroom teacher

Grades 3-8:  Please sign up with MUM (Math) teacher and MUR (Reading) teacher

History, Science, Writing teachers will be available in their classrooms. Specialists (art, music, physical education, Spanish) will also be available. 

We look forward to seeing you!  

http://signup.com/go/YFBUEbv

Here’s what our CA first graders are learning in our 24th week:

IRA: These next few week we will fous on poetry and its elemets of rhyme, rhythm, and repitition.

Phonics:  We are focusing on the hard and sift sounds for C.  hard sound would be cat, and a soft sound would be city.

Writing: We have been working hard on learning how to put a nonfiction informational piece together. Taking facts and putting them into three cateories of are, have, and can.  (Penguins are birds. Penguins have feathers. Penguins can slide on their bellies.)  The students are doing an amazing job.

Math: We start this week using and getting to understand what fractions are and how we determine them.

IXL: If you would like to use IXL at home, we recommend these sections for practice this week:

• Counting and Number Patterns (Section A)
• Addition (Section B, C & D)
• Subtraction (Section E, F, G & H)
• Mixed Operations (Section J) 
• Comparing (Section K)
• Place Value (Section M)
• Spacial Sense (Section N)
• 2D and 3D shapes (Setion V)

Core Knowledge: We are finishing our unit 

Core Virtue: February is Loyality

News:

Early Release Dates:

Friday, March, 23rd

Friday, May 25th

February 12th
Conferences

February 15th

Class party at 1:00
Conferences

February 16th and 19th
No School

February 23rd

Science Museum trip

OSA

College t-shirts

2017/2018 Calendar Available on the CA website. Click HERE

Feb 5th-9th

Here’s what our CA first graders are learning this week:23

IRA: We finish the month with winter stories.  We will read Snowy Day and One Snowy Night.  These books will focus on character traits and character changes.

Phonics:  We will be introducing, reading, and writing soft and hard sounds of c and g. Soft sounds as in celery and ginger. Hard Sounds as in cat and garden.

Writing: We have begun our informational writing piece of non-fiction. Your child will be reading non-fiction books and writing a report style writing piece. They begin by writing one, with support, but later will write one on their own.  They are amazing!

Math: This week introduces 3D shapes.  The students will learn to identify a shape, name how many vertices, faces, and edges it has, both with a physical shape and on paper. Feel free to have your child point and count these out on shapes around your home.

IXL: If you would like to use IXL at home, we recommend these sections for practice this week:

• Counting and Number Patterns (Section A)
• Addition (Section B, C & D)
• Subtraction (Section E, F, G & H)
• Mixed Operations (Section J) 
• Comparing (Section K)
• Place Value (Section M)
• Spacial Sense (Section N)
• Graphing  (Section O)

Core Knowledge: Our new unit is called Early American Civilization.  We will study Mayan. Aztec, and Inca civilizations and investigate their government, religion, and development of their cities. We will also compare and contrast these three cultures.

Core Virtue: February is loyalty.