Here is the April newsletter.
Here is the lunch menu.
Upcoming events:
April 3: Sports Day
April 7: Knowledge-a-thon in the the AM
April 7: PAC field trip in the PM
April 11: Egg Crack Off and Class Color Day
April 12-17: NO SCHOOL
April 21: Wear Green and Blue for Earth Day
April 28: Funky Friday (dress as silly as you want)
Reading: Readers will explore poetry this week! Reading familiar poems and songs helps students to build fluency and expression while reading. We will talk about the rhythm and phrasing while reading familiar poems. Students will also add more poems to their poem binders to prepare for our celebration at the end of the week.
Writing: As our persuasive writers continue to try to solve problems, they will be thinking about teaching information to persuade and writing how-to books to explain how to make a change. We will continue to make sure each writer is including a problem, reasons why it is a problem, and a fix it idea. Later, we will work with our partners to edit for punctuation and practice reading our work before we share with others.
Math: We will be reviewing different topics we've covered during unit 4 in order to prepare for our test at the end of the week. We will focus on looking closely at pictures to find partners, solving and building teen number equations, and identifying and describing different shapes and their positions.
Word Study: We will learn about onset and rime in different words. An onset is the beginning sound in a word (c in cat) and the rime is the ending which is usually a vowel and consonants (at in cat). Understanding onset/rime helps children learn about word families, which can build an understanding for future spelling strategies.
Social Studies: As a culminating activity for our self study, students will create a page to put in our classroom "yellow book". This page tells about what each student can do and likes, much like how the yellow pages in a phone book help you find experts on certain things.
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