Mark Your Calendar:

Monday, April 19th>  New Homework Folder goes home (an additional Reading Comprehension Packet will be added starting this unit)

Friday, April 23rd>  Quick Check

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: Planting a Garden

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;  Reading Comprehension Activities are introduced

Letter Study:  Letters Kk and Hh

Writing:  Informative Writing: writing reports

Sight Words: just, have, help, one

Math Block: simple addition and subtraction with pictures; measurement (comparing heights and lengths, introducing inches); review of coins and their values; writing to 100

Science, SS or Art: Seeds and Plants

Religion: Forgiveness; tour of church

 Enrichment:

Mad Scientist:  Observe and Document our Caterpillars

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