Parent Note 4-13-17

NO SCHOOL TOMORROW!

Events of the Week: This week our unit was on animals and their babies.  We talked about various animal mommies and their babies and discussed ways in which animal parents care for their young- just like our mommies and daddies care for us!

• Math: We finished a unit on decomposing numbers 11-19.  Each day we practiced breaking the numbers down into a set of 10 and leftover ones.  

• Language Workshop: We read several books about animals and their young.  We also played games to match animal babies to their parents.

• Writing Workshop: This week I introduced sequence writing.  We practiced as a class by sequencing a few activities like washing your hands and getting ready for school, then wrote about it.  

               

• Reading Workshop:  We are continuing to work every day on applying the reading strategies to figure out unknown words in our books.  I am excited about the progress the girls and boys have made so far this year.  Please encourage your child to use the reading strategies when he/she is reading with you at home.

• Word Study: We focused on writing the entire alphabet, with each letter formed correctly.  This is a skill that we will be assessed on the 4th quarter progress report.  Please practice at home if your child is not able to write the alphabet neatly.

Important Dates:

·         April 14 – NO SCHOOL!

·        April 17-21 – Make a Wish Spirit Week (additional info was sent home yesterday)

·        April 18 -  Art Night 5:00-8:00

·        April 21 - Field trip money and permission slip due

·        April 25 - Make a Wish night during at the high school

·        April 26 - Kindergarten Field Trip

·        April 27 & 28 - Kindergarten Screening (Kindergarten students will be in school)

Kindergarten Field Trip

The kindergarten field trip will be Wednesday, April 26th.  We will travel to J.R. Martin Park in Republic to play and eat lunch before heading to the Dickerson Park Zoo.  A permission slip was sent home last week.  Please return these as soon as possible.  

THANK YOU for the Egg Hunt donations and to all the parents and grandparents that were able to attend the event.  We had a great time!

Next Week:

• We will begin an author study unit on Laura Numeroff.
• We will begin a unit on solid figures (cube, cone, sphere, and cylinder).
• We will be working on building and spelling simple words.
• Our sight word will be “his”.

I hope everyone has a wonderful

Easter weekend!

Mrs. Vaughn