Newsletter Updates for the Week of May 2nd

DATES TO REMEMBER:

-Wednesday, May 4th—3rd Grade Bookstore

-Friday, May 13th OR 20th—Muffins with Mom

-Monday, May 16th—Delayed Start

-Friday, May 27th—Fun to Be Fit

-Mon., May 30th—No School—Memorial Day

-Thursday, June 2nd—Kindergarten Program

-Friday, June 3rd—Fieldtrip to Kettunen Center

-Saturday June 4th—Bike-a-thon

-Friday, June 10th—Track & Field Day (K-2) pm

-Friday, June 10th—Sophomore Carnival

   

STUDENT OF THE WEEK: 

Our student of the week is Benito Ross-Perez. Benito likes to play with cars, go to school, and play with his baby brothers.  He likes reading books about trucks and he wants to learn his ABC’s & learn to draw this year. Congratulations to Benito on being Student of the Week!

3RD GRADE BOOKSTORE: 

The 3rd Graders (our BLAST Buddies) are putting together their annual bookstore as part of their economics unit. This Wednesday, May 4th we will be visiting their bookstore. They will have gently used books available to purchase from 25¢ - $2.00. Please send your child with a couple of dollars, so they can purchase a couple of books to bring home and add to their library:)

READING:

This week we will be reading stories about how children can help at home. Children will learn about taking responsibility for cleaning, caring for a pet, doing errands, and other chores.  Here are some activities that you can do at home to help reinforce the skills we will be practicing.

· Vocabulary—chores & contribute—Discuss different ways your child can help out at home. Create a list of jobs on a chore chart.

· Sightwords—help, too, & him—practice writing and reading these words by writing sentences that have them in them.

· Category Words—household furniture

· Phonics—long a/a with the magic e & sh—Invite your child to play a rhyming game with words that have the same long a sound and help them write them down into a list. Also practice writing words that begin and end with the sh sound.

WRITING: 

This week we will begin writing our first informational book on chicks, ducks, or birds using all of the research that we’ve gathered.  We will also be writing about why our moms are special to us.

MATH: 

This week we will begin collecting bottle caps—pop, juice, milk, etc. Please send in a Ziploc baggie with a few from your house for us to add to our collection.  We’ll also continue to work on addition, and begin learning about subtraction.  We will continue to practice counting & identifying numbers to 100.

SCIENCE & SOCIAL STUDIES: 

We’ve completed our Science Unit on Motion and will be taking an assessment this week.  Our next unit of study is on lifecycles. This week we will continue our study of eggs, chicks, ducks, and birds.  We will also review the lifecycle of a butterfly—our caterpillars arrived in the mail on Friday and are busy munching away:)

Please be sure to return your

Library book on or before Thursday!