Mark Your Calendar:
Thursday, March 12> Quick Check Assessment
Friday, March 13: Field Day (on field at 8:30 am); Half-Day 12:00 dismissal
Spring Break is from March 14-March 22. Return to school on Monday, March 23.
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: Letter Xx and Jj review; blend and segment sounds, substitute phonemes
Writing: Completing Sentences; Narrative Writing: making lists
Sight Words: away must by there
Math Block: Writing to 75 Assessment; sort and identify tangram pieces, identify small, medium and large shapes, and cover designs using tangram;measure length using nonstandard units, estimate and measure length and width using nonstandard units;graph a picture on a pictograph;cover designs using tangrams and explore slides, turns, and flips.
Science/Social Studies/Art: Continuation of our 4-6 week USA Unit of Study; Weather
Religion: Stations of the Cross
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:
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