March News 1

Upcoming Events

·      Friday, March 8^th – Wear Your Words Dress-up Day

·      Sunday, March 10^th – Daylight Savings – Spring Forward

·      Friday, March 15^th – Dress up as a Movie Star Day

·      Friday, March 15^th – Irish Dance Assembly at 1pm

·      Sunday, March 17^th – St. Patrick’s Day

·       Monday, March 18^th – Delayed start & Wear Green Day

·       Friday, March 22^nd – ½ day of school before break

·       Friday, March 22^nd – PJ day, popcorn, & a play.

·       Spring Break – March 23^rd – March 31^st

·       Monday, April 1^st – Classes resume

·       Friday, April 5^th – Sophomore Carnival

·       Fridays, April 12^th & 26^th – Kindergarten Round-up – No K

·       Good Friday, April 19^th – No School

This week in class!

Language Arts:  - Essential Question –What happens in different kinds of weather?

Letters of the week – Kk & ck

Sight words of the week – she & was

Vocabulary words – predict, temperature, drought, clever, storm

Category words – weather words

Reading –CAFÉ reader friend – Digger Dog, Repair Bear, Skippy Frog (skip it and then come back, if you are stuck on a word) & Helpful Kangaroo

Reader’s workshop – Monitor and fix p while you read, check for understanding. Fluency practice and practice RAZ kids (online reading program), I pick – a Good Fit book, reading to self – student selected books, partner reading too.

Grammar –plural nouns

Writing – Journal entries, small moments - immersion, opinion sentences, handwriting practice Bb & Ll

Math:

6.1 – Body Heights & String (homelink)

6.2 – Link the line up (homelink)

6.3 – Pet’s graph

6.4 – Solid shapes museum (homelink sent home early)

Social Studies: - PBIS – school wide expectations

Science: - Revisit weather unit

Focus – How can we reduce the warming effects of sunlight?

-       Our sun warms

-       What does the sunlight do?

-       Revisit the Butterfly Garden.

Technology: - RAZ kids, hideout, Splash Math

Our Report Cards!

Report Cards and assessments are coming home today!  Finally!  Please if you have any question or concerns please contact me.

Thank you to all the parents that were able to attend Pastries with Parents last Friday.

Kindergarten Round-up

It is just around the corner for anyone looking for kindergarten next school year.  There will be two Fridays in April, where we will not be having class for our kinders due to round-up. The dates are April 12^th & April 26^th.  If you know of anyone interested in kindergarten for next school year, please have them contact MaryBeth in the elementary school office to schedule an appointment.

 Reading Month!

During reading month, the children will be earning reading tickets for time engaged in reading, during school.  The tickets will be collected in class and at the end of the month, tickets will be drawn for prizes at an assembly.

Our school theme is “Red Carpet Reading.”  Each grade is focusing in on a genre of literature.  Kindergarten’s focus is nursery rhymes.  We will be creating a nursery rhyme book throughout the month, that they can keep.  We will be having reading buddies with Mrs. Wilson’s 5^th class on Wednesdays, and we are having a special guest reading next Monday.  We will be reading in the dark too on a few days so please have your kiddos bring in a flashlight to school, to keep in their book bins for the month.

Classroom Supplies

If you are feeling generous we are completely out of Clorox/Lysol wipes for our room and our glue stick supply is running low too.  Any and all donations are much appreciated!