March 11th Newsletter

Important Dates
March
18 – Movie Night – at Prairieview
23– First Grade Music Concert – 7:00
25 – Crazy Hair Day

- 1st Grade Paper-making Assembly
28 – Spring Break Begins



April
4 – Classes Resume
5 – Teacher's Institute – No School


Annie J. will be our “student of the week” next week.









First Grade Music Concert
Our 1st grade music concert will be on Wednesday, March 23th at 7:00pm in the Lakeview Junior High gymnasium. Students should arrive at 6:45pm and meet their teacher in the auxiliary gym. Since the theme is Bugz! , our class is asked to wear a yellow solid shirt with black pants/shoes. Thanks.



Math
We just started chapter 16 in math this week. This chapter deals mostly with fractions.






Movie Night
Movie night will be on Friday, March 18th at Prairieview. Despicable Me will be the featured movie. The doors will open at 6:30 pm. There will be no admittance after 6:45 pm.





Reading
Next week, we will be reading Johnny Appleseed and Life Cycle of an Apple.

Comprehension Strategies
The following comprehension strategies will be covered next week: predicting, inferring, drawing conclusions, reading a time line, and viewing photographs.

Vocabulary Words
The vocabulary words for next week are: apple, bread, cider, clothes, river, stories, years, young

Phonics Skills
We will work on base words and endings, vowel pairs “ou” and “ow” and syllabication (VCCV Pattern).

Grammar Lesson
Action words with -ed endings.

Spelling Words
Our spelling words will be: checking, telling, missed, filled, sleeping, bluffing, planted, walked, jumping & landed

Have a good weekend!