Friday Note: April 8,
2016
Art Night is held in the 5-8 portion of the Elemiddle TONIGHT from 5:30pm-8:30pm! For
$10 students can participate in all activities! We will be making African
inspired drums, rattles, mask, tie dye ts and even clay!
Events of the Week: Our theme was plants. We
planted flowers and vegetables in our classroom garden!
- Language Workshop: We continued reading
books about plants. We made our own
plant artwork and labeled their parts and needs.
- Writing Workshop: We are working on writing
complete sentences that describe or tell, instead of “I like…”
sentences. Continue encouraging
your child to write at home!
- Word Study: We did a mini PBL (Project Based
Learning) lesson that had to do with building something out of boxes. We read one book a day that had
something to do with constructing, using your imagination, creating ideas,
etc. After each book we would
discuss as a class how we could make a self-to-text connection. Students would work in groups throughout
the week brainstorming ideas, making a supply list, and coming up with a
plan with their group members. On
Friday I surprised students by informing them we actually get to put all
their ideas to the test. Each group
made something out of various boxes by using the plans they had been
working on all week. I am so proud
of how hard and well they worked together.
They loved all of the hands on learning and learned so much from
one another.
- Math: We began a unit on decomposing numbers 11-19. Each day we practiced breaking the
numbers down into a set of 10 and left over ones.
Important
Dates:
o
April 8: Art
Night 5:30-8:30
o
April 14: Cox
CARE Mobile
o
April 14:
Strike Out Childhood Cancer at the HS ball fields (Fundraiser for St.
Jude’s)
o
April 15, 18-21:
Buy 1 Get 1 Free Book Fair
o
April 18-19: Spring
Parent-Teacher Conferences
o
April
22: NO SCHOOL!
o
April 27:
Field Trip Form and Money Due (more details coming soon)
o April 29: NO SCHOOL FOR KINDERGARTEN STUDENTS!
o May 4: Kindergarten Field Trip
Kindergarten Field Trip
The
kindergarten field trip will be Wednesday, May 4th. We will travel to J.R. Martin Park in
Republic to play and eat lunch before heading to the Dickerson Park Zoo.
Parent Teacher Conferences
Parent-Teacher
Conferences will be held April 18th and 19th from 4-7:30pm. You may sign up online at http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0d4aacae2ba6f58-parentteacher/
The Character Word for April is:
Self-Control—Behaving
appropriately
We Need
Your Help!
Kindergarten screening for next year’s
kindergartners will be held on April 28th and 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
·
Social
Security Card
·
Shot
Record
Proof
of Residency (if NOT enrolled in Parents as Teachers)
Calling all interested
volunteers,
Its nearly Book Fair Time!!! This
is our Buy One/Get One event held in the library! The dates are: from set up on
Thursday – April 14th, thru take down on Thursday, April 21st.
We're using VolunteerSpot, to help us organize our schedule of
volunteers. Please select the Scholastic Book Fair link below to learn
more and sign up. Thank you for your help!
To view
the Activity Sign-up(s), please click the link(s) below:
Scholastic Book Fair, Spring 2016
Scholastic Book Fair, Spring 2016
Next
Week:
± We will begin a unit over animal mothers
and their babies.
± We will continue our unit over decomposing
numbers 11-19.
± We will talk about opposites/antonyms.
± Our sight word
will be “this.”
Have a great weekend!
Mrs. Wenger
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