Mark your calendar:
Monday, April 9: New HW folder goes home
Friday, April 13: Quick Check Assessment; **Attend 8:15 Mass: all students need to be in the classroom before the last bell. We will be leaving for the church by 8:05. If your child is tardy, you must sign them in at the office, then walk them over to the church to meet us.
Thursday, April 19: Quick Check Assessment due to Field day on Friday
Friday, April 20: Field Day (information to go home soon); No Mass due to Field Day
Thursday, April 26: HW Folder Due; Quick Check Assessment
Friday, April 27: No School> Teacher Work Day
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: Seeds and Parts of a Plant
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: -ee words: Sheep in a Jeep; Continuation with Blends> and continue reviewing the H Brothers
Writing: Completing Sentences; developing their own story: character, setting, problem: informational writing (first, next, last)
Sight Words: just help have one
Math Block: make an ABBC pattern using pattern blocks;divide by sharing, comparing numbers through 10;identify left and right;explore tangrams
Science/Social Studies/Art: seeds and parts of a plant (life cycle and needs)
Religion: make a timeline of Jesus’ life; discuss why God should come first in our lives; start going to 8:15 Mass on Friday
Enrichment:
Mad Scientist: Celery Experiment AND Journaling Our Observations of a Planted Seed
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> as suggested back in January and reminded by Fire Fighters!
tie their shoes