January 16- January 19

-Narrative Writing

-lowercase Vv and Zz

-Sight Word: have and love

-identifying characters and setting of a story

-identifying central idea

-Categorizing Data

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Volunteer Opportunities:

-Mystery Reader Sign up

-Friday Folders

-Take home Gerald

-Reading Center Volunteers

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ELF Unit 3 Wednesday, Jan 24th 8:45am (bell) - 10:30am

Our third ELF unit is coming up. If you are available or you have loved ones who would like to help run a fun activity, please sign up here. Check out the Kyffin PTA ELF website for more information about this unit and videos about the centers. Please email me at becker0210@gmail.com (Bill, Graham's dad) if you have any questions. And save the date for Unit 4: March 14th (pie day!) in the afternoon.

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Spirit Week: Next week, Jan 16-19, is spirit week! Check out the calendar for each dress up theme!

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Alphabet Day! In Friday folders this week there is a pink form to explain Alphabet Day! We will celebrate our learning of all the letters on Thursday, January 25. Students are assigned a letter and will be encouraged dress up as that letter on Alphabet day. Check out the form and let me know if you have any questions!

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Middle of Year Data: MOY data is in Friday folders today. Parent Teacher conferences will be 2/21-2/22 please come prepared with any questions. If you have any urgent concerns, please let me know.

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Literacy

-Read Every Day for 10 minutes

-First and Last name practice

-Practice reading and writing sight words 1-20

-Home Writing Journal

Math

-Practice using different addition strategies

-Practice counting to 70

SEL

-Complete 2 kind acts each day!

-All about the sun and how it helps our Earth

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-kindness

⭐New Structure for January GT Family Learning opportunity!

This January we will be offering 6 different learning opportunities for parents, PLUS an open Q&A session on 1/24/24. The presentation format will be asynchronous as these topics will be pre-recorded and available starting on 1/19/24. Families can view the sessions they choose and follow up with any additional questions for our presenters on 1/24/24 from 6:00 - 7:00 pm.

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Visit event webpage HERE for specific topics and descriptions. The links on this webpage will go live starting on 1/19/24.

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Math Expressions Workbooks Students are bringing home volume 1 workbooks today. We did not use these workbooks but would be great for additional math practice. All of the content is review but not required.

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WINTER BREAK-NO SCHOOL

NO SCHOOL-STAFF DEVELOPMENT

NO SCHOOL- MLK DAY

Middle of Year assessment data goes home

Schreiber Library

Schreiber Library

Schreiber Library

Schreiber Library

AMP A

AMP B

AMP B

AMP C

AMP A

AMP B

AMP C

Alice E.’s Birthday!

Beckett B.’s Birthday!

Roueche ELF #3

Sports Day!

Vacation Day!

Pajama Day!

You Belong at Kyffin Day!