February

This month is an eventful one, with Valentine's Day and a field trip to the Rodeo grounds in store. The children will be making their own Valentine's bags, and on the 14th, they will be able to distribute Valentine's to each of their classmates and we will have an afternoon party. The field trip will also be exctiting. We get to tour the grounds and watch some of the contestants competing to be in the real rodeo events for later on that week!

The Love of Reading week is first week of the month, and Stephine Imes a reporter from the Arizona Daily Star came in and read one of her favorite books to us. It was a real treat.

In math, we are working on writing and counting our numbers backwards from the number 20. We're working hard on correctly writing and recogizing the teen numbers. Although the children have no problem writing numbers all the way up to 75, writing them backwards seems to be a little more difficult for them.

We are also learning a lot about safety this month. The school counselor has come in and talked to the children about stranger danger, what to do when they get lost, and how to keep themselves safe from people they don't know. They also learned about germs, bacteria, and viruses, how they get into our body, and how they make us sick. This is a good thing, because it's flu season, and everyone is getting sick! We have a few microscopes and soon we will look at some water samples under them and see what we can see. We're also going to be looking at snake skins, butterfly wings, and fingerprints.