"I love to read month? Shouldn't every day be I love to read day?!"

This week has been a whirlwind full of giggles, goodbyes, birthdays and celebrations! We were sad to say goodbye to one of our friends at the beginning of the week as she is moving to another school. It was hard to say goodbye, but exciting to hear her talk about her new school and everything she is looking forward to. Tomorrow and Friday we are going to celebrate birthdays! The two kiddos have been counting down for a month now and tomorrow and Friday are the big days! We will celebrate with songs, games, and by making each of them a birthday book. Stay tuned for pictures from these exciting events!

Even though 2nd quarter has ended and it has been a couple of weeks since our winter tests, we are still celebrating all that we have learned in 88 days of 1st grade! We have started Unit four in math which focuses on measuring using different parts of our body, rulers, tape measures, and yard sticks. We have enjoyed finding things in our classroom that were taller and shorter than us. We have learned how to accurately use these tools to measure and how to write the units. We are continuing to work on our math facts and will absolutely keep on playing those fun math games!

This week we are re-writing our 1st grade hopes and dreams! We have looked at the dreams that we wrote at the beginning of the year and are writing new ones. We read the book, More Than Anything Else by Marie Bradby that tells the story of Booker T. Washington's life. We have spent the week learning about him and all of the success he had in his life. He didn't start learning how to read until he was 8 and by the end of his life wrote 14 books! We are using him as a role model as we learn new, challenging things too.

February is going to be an exciting, jam packed month! Coming up is the Valentine's Day, the 100th day of school, Energy Break, and all month is I Love to Read Month! We will be celebrating our reading all month at school and you can at home too by reading with your kiddo every night. I'm looking forward to seeing you all at conferences!