Weekly Newsletter for January 26-30, 2009

Important Dates/Reminders:
* The Westminster Elementary Junior Beta Club is sponsoring a coat drive. We will collect coats for boys, girls, men and women of all sizes. Please make sure the coats are cleaned before sending them to school. The collection of coats will begin on January 12 and end on January 29.
* Wednesday, January 28th is the 100th day of school! Please remember to send in the 100th projects and 100 snack items by Wednesday. Thanks for your help with this.
* If you have not signed and returned the report card, please do so ASAP! Thanks!
* Book Order is coming home today and will be sent off on January 30th.
* Our next book fair will start on Feb. 6 –
12th. More info coming soon!
* Our Valentine Party will be Feb. 12th at
1:45. More info will come soon!
* We will be out of school on Feb. 13th and
16th.
* PTO is planning a Family Movie Night on
* Feb. 27th. More info coming soon.

*** We are in need of glue sticks!!! If you can help, please send in some for our class.
Thanks!
Star Students;
Lucas & Faith

HOMEWORK:
The two sheets/activities are inside your child’s folder. Please work on them this week and return on Friday. Take home readers are coming home this week for the first time. Please read the letter attached.

What We will Learn this week:
Reading: We will be learning the letter/sound for the vowel Oo. We will build words with the –ot family. We will work on patterns in text, retelling a story, and ending punctuation.
Math: It’s the 100th day of school on Wednesday. We will be learning how to count to 100 in different ways and counting groups of 10. We will continue with months of the year also.

Science: Weather