April 17-21, 2017

Specials

Monday - 1

Tuesday - 2

Wednesday -3

Thursday - 4

Friday - 5

Upcoming Events & Reminders
April 19 - All Pro Dad's Breakfast
April 24-28 Book Fair - we will go on Tuesday as a class
April 27 - 1st grade to Cincinnati Zoo!
If you are interested in chaperoning, please make sure your background check and volunteer forms are complete! 
April 27 - Celebrate the Arts Night 5:30-7:30pm
April 29 - PTA Carnival 2-7pm
May 2-19 - K-PREP Testing Window. This means our schedule will be different during this time.
May 9 - Family Fun Night at Orange Leaf
May 11 - First Grade Musical Performance (More info to come)
May 15 - Fun Day
May 17 - Wellington Talent Show
May 19 - Last Day of School and First Grade Picnic (more info to come)

Spelling List

LIST A

town
down
brown
cow
loud
proud
cloud
house

LIST B

flower
power
clown
town
pounce
proud
house
shout

Sight Words
Practice reading and writing at home each week. I will be choosing 2 of these words to put on our spelling test.

get
come
made
may
part

Kid-Friendly Objectives
I can read, write, and identify words with ow and ou.
I can use a source to get information about a topic.
I can count forward and backwards from 1-120.
I can use skip counting to get from 1-120.
I can identify and use common conjunctions.
I can read and understand informational text.

Classroom Donations
-Dry Erase markers
-Stickers
-Post-its
-CHALK!!!!!!!! :) :) :) :) :) :)

Week in Review
We had a successful first week back to school! Can you believe we are down to only 26 days until summer? 

It was such a beautiful week that we got to enjoy DEAR outside. DEAR stands for Drop Everything and Read. I LOVE this part of our week. :)

On Friday, we got to end our week by wrapping up some of our sharing about what we did on Spring Break. It was so fun to hear what you were up to during that week!

All week long, we learned an approach doing research. We used a lot of different sources: YouTube, PebbleGo, Articles, books. We made a circle map of what we THOUGHT we knew in addition to our new information about...Great White Sharks!

After recording our information, we learned how to sort it into categories.

By the end of the week, we were writing our own paragraphs about sharks and even giving the sections titles!

Why are we doing this? Because on Monday, your child will get to choose their own animal to research! We have compiled a list of animals that we can see at the Cincinnati Zoo that also have some strong sources available to us. Your child is going to complete their own research on this animal! Here's a peak as to what is up ahead:

(The date is obviously not filled in on this note but I will send a hard copy home this week with it. These projects will need to be completed by May 5).

In math, we worked hard on adding three numbers together in a word problem.

 ...and we played a little Making 10/Making 20 Go Fish

Have a fabulous week!