Dear Families and Friends,
The Shamrock'n Roll was a blast! With so many children, parents, volunteers, and teachers all speed walking and running with each other, I can honestly say that was my favorite exercise of the year. It was so rewarding and exciting to cheer the children on as they ran for the prize!
Math: This week in Math we will focus on strategies for learning
Doubles Plus One facts (8+9) and Doubles Plus Two facts (8+10). Using these strategies to solve math facts allows for quick
recall. Students find relationships with these math facts and future
learning such as in third grade when they are learning multiplication facts. We do not time test math facts but do want students to learn
strategies so they can quickly recall the facts in problem solving situations.
Reading
and Writing Workshop: This
week we will be combining our reading and writing workshop. Our
reading workshop will flow into writing workshop. We are
continuing with our unit on poetry and we will be learning how to find
inspiration in our hearts to write poetry. What really matters to
you? We
will start the week off with creating a heart map with different ideas to help
us with ideas for writing poetry. We will explore
different feeling/emotion words in reading workshop and follow it up with writing
a feelings/emotion poem. Next we will explore with imagery. In
reading workshop we will listen to poetry with imagery and draw what we think
the object is without naming it. In writing workshop, we
will create our own imagery poetry. The last set of poetry
we will explore this week will be poetry using our 5 senses in sensory/free
verse. In
reading workshop we will read different examples, focusing on the parts with
the 5 senses. In writing workshop, we will write our own sensory poem. Last
week we learned about the elements in poetry and this week we get to begin
writing our own poetry! This is a fun and exciting time for the children!
Social Studies: This week, we will continue to talk about the things we need
vs. the things we want. We will learn
about work, income, and budgets. When
you go to the grocery store, talk with your child about what you need to buy
and your budget.
Habit #2: Begin with
the End in Mind. I set goals
for myself and plan ahead. I look for
ways to be a good citizen.
Reminders:
*Please remember to send a healthy snack every day. Snack time is @ 9:30am.
*Make sure your child wears tennis shoes every
Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.
*Library day is Thursday.
*Please remember to return your child’s homework bag and contents on Friday.
*It helps me tremendously if you leave the reading
response notebook and books in the homework bag.
Dates to
remember:
April 1:
STAAR Testing-NO VISITORS
April 2: STAAR
Testing-NO VISITORS
Spirit
Night
April 4:
Austin Reptile Show
April 10:
Chicks will begin to Hatch!
April 18: No
School- Good Friday
April 22-23:
STAAR Testing-NO VISITORS
May 1: Field
Trip to ZACH Theater
Talent
Show (K-3)
May 2: Field
Day
Talent Show (4-5)
May 5-9:
Teacher Appreciation Week
May 7: Early
Release Day
May 9: Career
Day
May 12-16: Book
Fair
May 26: No
School-Memorial Day
May 29: End
of the Year Party
May 30: Last
day of school!
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