Mark Your Calendar:

Monday, March 2> New Homework Packet Goes Home; Fox in Socks Enrichment Activity; Special Guest Reader

Friday, March 6> Quick Check Assessment

Thursday, March 12>  Quick Check

Friday, March 13> Half- Day 12:00 Dismissal; Field Day (information coming); End of Quarter 3

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: Dr. Seuss’ Birthday

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; Letter Oo; pronouns

Writing:  Informative Writing: lists

Sight Words:  her    him    when   some

Math Block:   comparing lengths, nonstandard units of measure; make an ABBC pattern using pattern blocks;divide by sharing, comparing numbers through 10; identify left and right; explore tangrams

Science/Social Studies/Art:  Start of our 4-6 week USA Unit of Study

Religion:   Miracles, Lent; Blessed Trinity

 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)

***Bonus:  Fox in Socks math enrichment activity on March 2nd.

Mad Scientist:  Oobleck

Foodie Fun:   HOP on POPcorn

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