April News 4

Upcoming Events

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

·       Friday, May 3^rd - Field trip permission slip due

·       Tuesday, May 7^th – NWEA reading testing

·       Friday, May 10^th – NWEA math testing

·       Saturday, May 11^th – Color Run

·       Monday, May 13^th – Dibels testing

·       Thursday, May 16^th – Field Trip to Midland Center for the Arts

·       Monday, May 20^th – Delayed Start

·       Monday, May 27^th – Memorial Day -No School

·       Wednesday, May 29^th – K-2 Field Day from 12:30-2:15.

·       Monday, June 3^rd – ½ day

·       Tuesday, June 4^th – Awards Assembly, ½ day, and Last day of School

This week in class!

Language Arts:  - Essential Question –What do you know about our country?

Letters of the week – Yy & Zz

Sight words of the week – this, that, what, his

Vocabulary words – country, travel, careful, purpose, connect

Category words – ordinal numbers

Reading –CAFÉ reader friend – Reread – Repair Bear & Main Topic & Key Details – Digger Dog

Reader’s workshop – reader’s stamina, partner reading, continue selecting good fit books, RAZ kids, continuing good reading habits with our take home reading folders

Grammar – sentences with prepositions

Writing – Journal entries & Opinion letters

Math:

7.6 – Pan Balance – leveling

Quick looks – double ten frames

7.7 – Representing Survey Data (2 days)

Roll and record with dice (Homelink)

Social Studies: - School wide expectations

Science: - Starting Unit 3 – Living it up

Focus Q. – How can we make our world a better place?

Instructional Q.  – How can we reduce our impact on the environment and other living things?

Phenomena – A piece of trash impacts many things.

Technology: - RAZ kids, hideout, Splash Math

Due to Kindergarten Round-Up! No class again this Friday, April 26^th.

NO Show-N-Tell this week!

April Student of the month

McKenna!

McKenna is six years old.

Favorite color – pink

Favorite food – mac-n-cheese

Favorite books – All Dr. Seuss books

Favorite hobby – ride horses

She wants to learn how to play basketball.

We she grows up she wants to be a gymnastics teacher.

She doesn’t have pet but would really like a dog.

Field Trip!

Thursday, May 16^th from 8:30-2:30

At the Midland Center for the Arts

Permission slips went home last week, if you lost yours please let me know and I can send home another one.  The cost per student and adult chaperones is $4.00.  I am willing to take up to ten chaperones so if you would like to go please let me know ASAP and I will pencil you in.  Remember you need have cleared a background check to attend and chaperone school field trips.  If you haven’t filled it out please let me know and I’ll get you one from the office.

Box Tops

We are nearing the end of the year and the end of our collecting time for Box Tops.  If you have any and you would like to donate them, please send them as soon as you can.  We really appreciate all donations as the money goes to helping out our school.

I included all our final testing dates so hopefully you can try to get your little ones a good night’s rest the days before their tests.  Thank you!