Thursday, March 20, 2014

March 21st Newsletter

          

 Important Dates
March
27 - First Grade Music Concert – 7:00
28 – Papermaking Assembly
     29 – Spring Break Begins
April
7 – Classes resume

*THERE IS NO HOMEWORK THIS WEEKJ


   Ayah will be our “student of the week” for the week of March 24-28.




S.C.A.R.C.E Papermaking Assembly
          On Friday, March 28, several people from SCARCE will be coming to our school to talk with the first graders about the 3Rs – Reduce, Reuse, & Recycle.  They will be doing a papermaking activity with the children and will also show them many items that have been made out of recycled materials.  Ask your child to tell you about it next week.



First Grade Music Concert
     Our 1st grade musical, SWAMPED!, will be on Thursday, March 27th at 7:00pm in the Lakeview Junior High gymnasium.  Students should arrive at 6:45pm and meet their teacher in the auxiliary gym. Thanks.


Reading
             The story from our Making Meaning curriculum for next week is A Day in the Life of a Garbage Collector by Nate LeBoutillier.

Comprehension Strategies
    We will be working on exploring text features, such as a glossary, a table of contents, and an index.

Vocabulary Words
    Next week’s vocabulary words are: swipe, time card, bin, routes, recycled, landfill, holding area

Phonics Skills
   We will work on the /ow/ sound. We will also work on base words and endings –es, and –ies.  We will discuss the prefixes un- & re-, and will review sounds for y.

Grammar Skills
     We will review verbs.

Spelling Words
    The spelling words for next week are: big, milk, owl, town, fox, how, brown, could, should, flowerpot