Mark Your Calendar:
****USA Heritage Map is PAST due> We have about 8 missing maps and HW folders. Please turn them in on Monday, March 27th.
******Spring Break> <March 20th – 24th, return to school on Monday, March 27th
Review Week: Week of March 27th: ESGI on all sight words and selected skills; listening comprehension and writing assessments as well.
Friday, March 31: Stations of the Cross
Monday, April 3: New HW folder goes home
Thursday, April 6: Progress Reports Scheduled to go home
Friday, April 7: Quick Check Assessment; Stations of the Cross
Wednesday, April 12: Quick Check Assessment
Easter Break: Thursday, April 13-Monday, April 17. Return to school on Tuesday, April 18.
Friday, April 21: Quick Check Assessment; ***Start going to 8:15 Morning Mass every Friday morning. Be in class no later than the 8:00 bell.
Schedule of Specials:
Tuesday and Thursday (PE): children wear PE short and shirt with approved tennis shoes and plain white socks. Light-Up shoes and socks with color/emblems are not allowed.
Monday, Wednesday, Friday (Spanish, music, guidance): children wear regular uniforms (no PE). Approved shoes and navy socks are required. Tennis shoes are not to be worn on these days. Belts are required if there are belt loops. Hair accessories are limited to the colors found in the uniform.
Academic Themes for the Week
Topic: Weather
Look for their Weekly Emergent Readers to go home on Fridays. I encourage you to save these weekly emergent reader books in a special place: a treasure box or special basket. Whenever they want to pull out a story to read to you, they can select a story from their special story box.
Reading Block: Capitalization & Punctuation; Blending; Writing a Complete Sentence; identifying middle sounds
Word Study: Continuation with Blends; – ip word family introduction, beginning sounds sort; building word family houses
Writing: Completing Sentences; developing their own story: character, setting, problem: Opinion Writing
Sight Words: Review Week
Math Block: act out “some, some more and some, some went away” stories; identify nickels, trading 5 pennies for a nickel and comparing events according to duration of time and counting by 5’s;count nickels to 25 cents;identify a cylinder and order objects by height
Science/Social Studies/Art: Start of our 4-6 week USA Unit of Study; Weather Unit
Religion: Stations of the Cross; Study the virtues of Faith and Trust; Will learn about Jesus calming the storm;will discuss that after death there is life
Enrichment: USA Themed Projects over the next 4-6 weeks (some of which includes the following: Classroom Heritage Map; USA Book-which includes Presidents and US Symbols; 50 States Song; etc)
Mad Scientist: Skittles Rainbow; Rain Experiment
Foodie Fun:
To Work On At Home:
writing their first and last name
writing numbers to 100
blending sounds together to read words>reading and writing simple sentences
memorize phone number and address
tie their shoes