April 24-27

April 28 NO SCHOOL for KINDERGARTENERS ONLY

April 23 Auditorium Grand Opening

May 5 Muffins with Mom

May 12 Muffins with Mom

May 8   3rd & 4th Grade Concert

May 20 Color Run

May 26  Fun to be Fit

May 29  NO SCHOOL - Memorial Day

May 30 Kindergarten Concert @ 1:30

June 1  3/4/5 Track and Field

June 2 K/1/2 Track and Field

            Sophomore Carnival

June 2  3rd Grade to Mackinaw Island

June 3  Bike-a-thon

STUDENT OF THE WEEK:  Brian

Brian likes to catch frogs and toads.  He likes to play with his family.  He likes to ride bikes.  Brian likes to eat oranges, strawberries, steaks and French fries.  His favorite movie is Goosebumps and favorite book is about tractors.  His goals are to become a dirt bike rider and own a cool dirt bike.

READING:

This week the focus is about children helping at home. How can your child help you at home? 

VOCABULARY:  chores, contribute

CATEGORY WORDS: household furniture

SIGHT WORDS:  help, him, too (please practice all 51 at home)

PHONICS:  We have made it through the alphabet and are now focusing on different areas of phonics.  This week we are looking at long /a/ and silent e at the end.  (cap –short a, but if you add an e at the end you have cape and it’s a long e)  Flippy dolphin tells the children to flip from a short a to long a when reading if the word doesn’t make sense or there is an e at the end of a word.

Our other focus this week is /sh/ at the beginning or ending of a word. (ship or fish)

TAKE HOME FOLDERS:

I am very near ready for the children to ‘shop’ for a good fit book—meaning a book they can read.  Once these go home, please have your child read the book every night as well as some of the papers in the folder.  A letter explaining will be enclosed.  Once the week is finished, return the folder and book for a new one.

WRITING:

We finished our opinion writing last week and are venturing to informational writing this week.  We will look at examples to find out more about what information means first.

MATH:

We are continuing our counting practice as well as adding and subtracting.  We will also review 3D shapes by building them with marshmallows and toothpicks.

SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES:

We looked at motion and how things go.  We put together a marble track to see how the marbles would go down different tracks.  We discussed gravity and force.

We will begin life cycles next week.  Painted Lady butterflies are on the way!

May is right around the corner.  Lots of activities coming!  I will keep you updated as I know!  Dates are at the beginning of the newsletter.  We also begin doing our final assessments.  Please continue to practice, counting, ABC’s & sounds, sight words and reading!  I try to also review every morning!