March 12th Newsletter

Important Dates
March

13 – No School
25 - 1st Grade Music Concert – 7:00
28 – Spring Break Begins

April
6 – Classes Resume
7 – No School – Teacher's Institute
10 – No School – Good Friday

Ease the Tease Assembly
On Wednesday we went to an assembly entitled Ease the Tease. It dealt with teasing and different ways to deal with various types of teasing. This goes along with our Character Counts program. Thank you to PTO for sponsoring this event.

Student of the Week
Kayla was our “student of the week” last week & this week since they were both short weeks. She's been very helpful & did a nice job of writing the day/date on the board.

Computers
We have been working on the program called Education City. We have been practicing vowel sound pairs such as /oa/, /oo/, /ai/, /ou/, etc. We have also been working with putting numbers in order from least to greatest and greatest to least.

Please remember to sign and return your child's report card envelope if you haven't done so already. Thanks.

Exploration Stations
We finished our unit on measurement last week. Children studied about measuring objects using scales, rulers, yardsticks/meter sticks, tape measures, cups, & quarts.

Our next unit will be our Chick Embryology unit which will begin in April.

Reading
The stories from our anthology for next week are: The Forest and Saving the Earth.

Comprehension Strategies
We will be working on categorizing, classifying, and summarizing.

Vocabulary Words
The vocabulary words are: about, because, draw, happy, teacher, part, tiny, tells, loves, planted, added, & compound words.

Phonics Skills
In phonics we will be reviewing the /oo/, /ew/, /ue/, /ou/, /u_e/, and long /i/ (ie, igh).

Grammar Skills
We will work on action words (verbs).

Spelling Words
The spelling words for next week are: cup, cups, frog, frogs, tree, trees, gloves, birds, because, & about.

Have a Happy St. Patrick's Day!