Thursday, April 21, 2016

Friday Note

Thursday Note: April 21, 2016
No School Tomorrow!
Thank you for coming to our conference this week! I enjoyed visiting with each of you.
Events of the Week: This week we started an Author Study on Laura Numeroff. 

  • Language Workshop: We read If You Give a Mouse a Cookie the first part of the week and identified the characters and setting.  We also practiced retelling the story.  We finished off the week reading If You Give a Dog a Donut and If You Give a Moose a Muffin. The students enjoyed comparing the stories.

·          Writing Workshop: We introduced series of events writing.  We spent the week sequencing events in the right order and discussing that in order for our writing to make sense it has to be written in the correct order. 
         
  • Reading Workshop: Students are working daily in Literacy Centers.  While students are working independently, I am beginning to call each student up to read with them independently to determine their end of year reading level. 
                                                 
  • Word Study: We spent the week building sight words with magnetic letters and writing them.  We are working very hard on making our words easy to read and writing them correctly in the lines. 
                      
  • Math: We began a unit on solid figures (cylinder, cone, cube, and sphere).  The students enjoyed learning about these new shapes and finding them in our classroom. 


Important Dates:
o   April 27:  Field Trip Form and Money Due
o   April 29:  NO SCHOOL FOR KINDERGARTEN STUDENTS! (K screening)
o   May 4:  Kindergarten Field Trip (J.R. Martin Park in Republic then to the Dickerson Park Zoo)
May 17th: Last Day of School (Dismiss at 11:00)            

Picture Information
Spring Pictures:  If you still have your child’s spring pictures please return them or pay for them by Thursday, April 28th

Reading Journey
Our final reading journey will end May 12th.  Please remember your child must complete fifteen reading activities to “travel” to a summer destination during the read-a-thon on May 13th.

Sight Words—Keep practicing!
I   is   like   see   my   a   the   be   have   it   he  
she   to   can   with   go   we   me   you 
 and   are   they   in   of   at   do 
 not   for   am   this   his

We Need Your Help!
Kindergarten screening for next year’s kindergartners will be held on April 28th and April 29th.  If you know someone who will have a child in kindergarten next school year, please remind them to call the school to schedule an appointment for Kindergarten Screening (743-4810).  All children will need to have the following documentation:
  • Birth Certificate
  • Shot Record
  • Proof of Residency (if NOT enrolled in Parents as Teachers)




Next Week:
± We will continue our author study on Laura Numeroff.
± In math we will continue learning about solid figures.
± We will continue working on our writing.
± During word study we will learn about suffixes.
± Our sight words will be “no” and “so”.  These are our last sight words for the year! 

Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Wenger 

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