Interactive Blog Links for the week: (right hand column)

Reading Target Skills:

Inferences

Writing:

Personal Narrative

Social Studies:

U.S. Government Ben's Guide
Patriotic Symbols
Top Tab: Pearson On-line books (access with student username and password)

Math Practice Sites:

Base-10 Block Subtraction Practice
Skip Counting to 100
Base-10 Block Subtraction Practice
Complements of 10
Adding Three Numbers
Doubles Level 1
Doubles Level 2
Doubles Level 3
Subtraction Double-Digit BBB Rule (example)
Mean, Median, Mode, Range


Dear Families,


I hope the interactive blog links listed at the top of this post are guiding you and your child toward easy access to sites that coincide with our focus skills of the week. There are also several books to read on Pearson Science this week. Your child's passwords are taped to the inside of his/her home folder.


Our Valentine's Day party will be held this Tuesday afternoon. Please do not attach candy, stickers, tattoos, etc. to the Valentine cards. Two of our students have moved away this past week, so I have updated the class list below. 


Happy Valentine's Day to all! :)


Spelling:
There will not be any spelling homework due this Thursday. We will be spending the week reviewing the commonly misspelled words in during class.

Valentine Party Information

Dear Parents,

Valentine’s Day is not far off and prior to your shopping for this day, I am taking this opportunity to remind you of the guidelines in our Parent Handbook regarding Valentine’s and treats:

“Please do not attach any treats on Valentine’s cards (i.e. candy bars, etc.), due to the possibility of a child with a deadly peanut/nut/food allergy receiving the items.  Valentine’s with candy attached will not be permitted in any classroom.”   We want this day to be special for all students by keeping everyone safe and we do not want to disappoint any child who may bring items to school to give out and then is not permitted to do so.

The PTA will be providing the students with cupcakes and a Capri Sun during the party.  The cupcakes are from * Whole Foods Market in Naperville.  The ingredients are as follows for the cupcakes: vanilla cupcakes contain eggs, milk, soy and wheat, sugar, enriched wheat flour, dry egg whites, palm oil, leavening, dextrose, modified food starch, dry egg yolk, natural flavor, salt, non-fat milk solids, sorbitan monostearate, soy lechithin, soybean oil, cellulose gum, xanthan gum, water, and canola oil.  The orange frosting consists of powdered sugar, palm oil shortening, unsalted butter, vanilla extract, sea salt and annatto (natural plant based food color). 

If your child is unable to have the treat provided because of allergies, please send the school nurse a note informing us of this no later than Friday, February 10^th.  You are asked to provide your child with a treat that he/she can have if they have allergies to the cupcakes being served. 

Finally, alternative activities will be planned for children whose families choose not to participate in this event beginning at 2:30 p.m.  Please contact Mr. Raczak through email in order that appropriate activities can be arranged.  His email is: mike_raczak@ipsd.org.

2BR Class List for Valentine's: 

Passing out Valentine's is optional. If your child chooses to share Valentine's please include all students on the following list.  (Each Valentine should be addressed to individual students.)

Esha

Ben

Carly

Hailey

Sean

Pranavi

Asha

Sahil

Luke

Nuha

Shreyas

Cade

Alec

Viktor

Pravallika

Matas

Julia

Josh

Halle

Kaleb

Olivia

Tanishka

Vince

Jake

Mrs. Soliman (student teacher)