March 6th Newsletter

Important Dates
March
6 – End of the trimester
10 – Report Cards
12 – Early Dismissal/Conferences
13 – No School
25 - 1st Grade Music Concert – 7:00
28 – Spring Break Begins
April
6 – Classes Resume

Conferences

Conferences will be held next week. I am looking forward to meeting with you to discuss your child’s progress. If you are unable to make your conference time, either contact the office or send me an e-mail. Thanks.

Student of the Week
Haroon was our “student of the week” last week. He did a nice job of reading a book to the class and also sharing his poster and thumb print artwork.

Author of the Month
Patricia Polacco is our author for the month of March. Many of her books are about things that happened to her when she was growing up. We read Thunder Cake last week when we had a thunder storm at school. Have your child retell the story to you. This helps to improve comprehension skills.

Reading

The story from our anthology for next week is: If You Give a Pig a Pancake. There is also a health link entitled Blueberry Pancakes.

Comprehension Strategies
The children will work on the following strategies: questioning, fantasy and realism, how to read a recipe, and viewing categories.

Vocabulary Words
The vocabulary words for next week are:

born, bubbles, closet, favorite, maple syrup, music, piano, probably, & remind.

Phonics Skills
Next week the children will be working on vowels oo, ew, ue, ou, u, u_e, and the long /i/ as in ie and igh. They will also be reviewing the oo sound and compound words.

Grammar Lesson
We will be reviewing pronouns.

Spelling Words
The spelling words for next week are: food, moon, room, soon, too, zoo, balloon, moose, toothache & raccoon.

Remember to set your clocks ahead on March 8th!