Hi!
Our KAT was a huge success! 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!
This Friday, April
15th, four-year-old-kindergarten through second grade classrooms
will be cheering on our third and fourth grade as they get ready for state
testing in the coming weeks! 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!
Upcoming Events:
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.
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.
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. We've been doing alot of learning with our Math Partners :)
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.
Have a great week!
-Samantha
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