Mark Your Calendar:

Students Return on Monday, April 5: Quarter 4 Begins; Free Dress Day for Fun Run Challenge being met!

Friday, April 9:  Quick Check and Homework Packet due

Week of April 11-17:  Review Week:  ESGI Sight Word Assessment, Listening Comprehension and Writing Assessments

 

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: Insects

Look for their Weekly Emergent Readers to go home on Thursdays.  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 Sounds into Words; Writing a Complete Sentence; Rhyming; Identifying beginning, middle, and final sounds;  

Letter Study:  Letter Ee;  long and short vowels

Writing:  Informative Writing: Making Lists/Invitations; Proper Nouns:  Days of the Week/Months of the Year

Sight Words: down, went, only, little

Math Block: simple addition with pictures; measuring distance with nonstandard units of measurement;  Counting by 2’s and time review; start working towards writing numbers 1 to 100

Science, SS or Art: Insect Unit of Study begins (2 week unit)

Religion:Putting God first in our lives; tour of church

 Enrichment:

A surprise will be delivered this week!

Mad Scientist:

Foodie Fun Day: 

To Work On At Home:

writing their first and last name

blending sounds together to read words>reading and writing simple sentences