Hello!
Our KAT was a huge success! Students enjoyed the dress up days last week, and did an awesome job showing off their knowledge on Friday. Thank you for all the practice at home and all the donations that were collected. This is a huge fundraiser for our school. Money can be turned in through Friday, April 15th, so if you haven't turned yours in there is still time. Thanks again for all your support!
Upcoming Events:
This Friday, April 15th, four-year-old-kindergarten through second grade classrooms will be cheering on our third and fourth grade testers! Please feel free to have your child wear work out gear for our “pump up for testing” day! We will conclude the day by having our third and fourth grade students parade through the halls, while the rest of the school cheers them on!
This Friday, April 15th, four-year-old-kindergarten through second grade classrooms will be cheering on our third and fourth grade testers! Please feel free to have your child wear work out gear for our “pump up for testing” day! We will conclude the day by having our third and fourth grade students parade through the halls, while the rest of the school cheers them on!
Tuesday, April 12th: Family Night-Science, Social Studies and Subs 5:30-7:00
Monday, April 18th-No School-In-service for teachers
Wednesday, April 20th-Earth Day Clean-Up. Please return permission slip if you haven't already.
Curriculum Updates:
Readers' Workshop: We are continuing our new unit, Thinking and Talking About Books. We will begin the unit with retelling. This week we will be working hard to envision what's happening in our story by pretending we are in a movie and saying, "I'm imagining that...", trying to hear, smell, feel and taste what's happening and saying, "I can picture how _________sounds, feels, looks, tastes, and envisioning "between the pictures" scenes by asking, "What's happening that's not on the page?" We will also be making predictions by thinking about what's happening in the story so far and revising our predictions when they don't match what's happening in the story. We'll be trying to mark our thinking with post-its so we can share our ideas with our partners.
Writers' Workshop: We're finishing up the first bend of our realistic fiction unit this week. We've been working hard to make up pretend characters, imagine adventures for our characters, make sure to solve our character's problem in the ending and write catchy leads. This week we will work on starting to write series books. We'll learn how authors introduce their characters in book one of their series and how to develop the dialogue in our books.
Math Workshop: This week we'll be starting to explore 2-digit addition. We'll be using sticks and circles to represent 10s and 1s to help us solved 2-digit addition problems. We'll also be practicing writing equations vertically so the tens and ones line up. We will be reviewing adding a 1-digit number to a 2-digit number and adding a 2-digit number and a multiple of 10. See the note that is coming home today with some 2-digit addition strategies we will be using.
Science/Social Studies: We are continuing our study of US Symbols. This week students will decide which symbol they'd like to learn more about and do some research using resources such as books and Pebblego. It is a topic that they love chatting about! We’ll be sharing some of our learning during our Family Night tomorrow.
Word Study: We will spend the month of April reviewing all of our words from this year. Our goal is to not only write them isolation, but also spell them correctly in our writing. We’ll also be using the patterns and parts from these words to help us spell new words.
As always, let me know if you have any questions.
Kathy
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