April 14th

 

April 14th

Dates for your Calendar

Monday, May 15th --Field Trip to the Farm (Diary Discovery)  10:00-12:30

Please pack a sack lunch and drink as we'll be eating at the farm.

Parents are welcome to attend.  Unfortunately, we are unable to accommodate younger siblings at the farm.  An entrance fee of $6 will be charged to all parents attending.  All student entrance fees will be paid by Family Links.  

Thursday, May 18th--Field Trip to the Wittenbach Nature Center 9:30-1:30

Please pack a sack lunch and drink as we'll be eating at the center. 

We will need at least 2 parent volunteers!  Email me if you are able to attend. 

Monday, May 22--K/1st grade Music Concert 2pm in the gym

Thursday, May 25th--Kindergarten End of the Year Picnic at Creekside Park in Lowell

10:45-1:30pm  

Please pack a sack lunch and drink as we'll be eating at the park.  

Families (younger siblings included) are encouraged to attend!

Bread Bag Clips

We are continuing to collect plastic bread bag clips for "Danielle Cares for Chairs".  You may send them in with your child any time!

 

SNAP Words

Keep practicing our SNAP words!  We are getting very good at recognizing them in our daily reading. 

We have some new snap words this week:   love   are    come   no

go    so

Continue to practice the following words for mastery as well...

I    like    my   me   a    the

see    look   at  this    is    here

it     in    an    and    can   to  do

got   went  was  we  be  how  you  am did  on

up   play   say   day   for    she    

**The goal for the end of the year is to read 30 or more of our Snap Words fluently.  

Math

We have been learning to...

*Recognize and sort 3 dimensional or solid shapes

*Add and subtract within 10

*Finding missing numbers and incorrect numbers on the number line

Reading

We have been learning to...

*Read Consonant Vowel Consonant (CVC) words

*Blend sounds to read nonsense words

*Listen for short and long vowel sounds in words

*Identify /l/ blends at the beginning of words

*Silent /e/ or Magic /e/

Writing

We have been learning to...

*Leave spaces between words

*Add labels to our pictures

*Spell Snap Words correctly

*Write a complete sentence with ending punctuation

*Make covers for our books

*Write all the sounds we hear in a word including the vowel sounds.

Reminders

*  Send a snack daily.  Be sure it is separate from their lunches and easy to find.

*  Return library books every Monday.

Take a Peek at our Week...

Sometimes you just want to do your work under the table!  :)

These kids are SO into reading now!

We visited the Third Grade classrooms to see their Wax Museum!  Awesome job third graders!!

We have been working hard and playing hard with all the extra sunshine this week!