Thursday, March 6, 2014

March 7th Newsletter

                    
Important Dates
March
            9 – Market Day Pick-up @ LV
11 – Report Cards Go Home
          17 – No School - Due to Conferences
          18 – No School – Teacher’s Institute
27 - First Grade Music Concert – 7:00
28 – Papermaking Assembly
          29 – Spring Break Begins
April 7 – Classes resume
         



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.


  
  Oscar will be the “student of the week” for the week of March 10th.



Computers
   Since March 2nd was Dr. Suess’ birthday, we explored his official website, www.seussville.com , during computer time.  You may access this website at home also.  There are many activities for the children to explore on this site.  They really enjoyed it.






Reading
             The story from our Making Meaning curriculum for next week is Raptors by Lisa McCourt.

Comprehension Strategies
   The following comprehension strategies will be covered next week: exploring text features, identifying what they learn from nonfiction texts, and visualizing

Vocabulary Words
The vocabulary words for next week are: 
fierce, pounced, slash, prey, cunning, predators, extinct, mates, and packs

Phonics Skills
    We will work on base words and endings, the vowel pair “ew”” and syllabication (VCCV Pattern).

Grammar Lesson
We will work on compound words.

Spelling Words
     Our spelling words will be:
Bud, sun, held, few, flew, grew, chew, because, want, newspaper



Remember to change your clocks this weekend and also the batteries in your smoke detectors.