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Week 30- March 25-29

Happy Sunday Families! We had a busy and fun week back after break. Is it just me or did the kiddos grow in that week?!

Happy Birthday Ezra!

Happy Birthday Emily!

 Here's a look at the upcoming week:

Spalding: We will continue to review all phonograms while adding the remainder of our learned phonograms to homework. Our spelling words this week will be: street, say, hand, come, ring, live (“You live in a house."), live ("The TV show is live."), hill, late let. 

Sight Words: This week we will review list 7.

Literature: This week we will explore A.A. Milne’s Winnie the Pooh. We will learn about A.A. Milne’s as an author and his inspiration for the Winnie-the-Pooh. We will explore three different stories ,"We Are Introduced to Winnie-the-Pooh, and Some Bees, and the Stories Begin,” and "In Which Pooh Goes Visiting and Gets into a Tight Place,” and "In Which a House is Built in Pooh Corner for Eeyore."  We will speak to the virtues represented, explore Pooh’s character traits, and find examples of friendship in the story. Our poem is Peter Piper.

Math: This week students will be reviewing both addition and subtraction together.  We will explore fact families which include addition and subtraction equations.  Students will also be introduced to simple story problems.

History and Geography: We will wrap up our unit on the continent of Asia this week. We will learn more about Asian tigers! Students will be treated with watching the movie “Born in China” which follows the stories of 3 adorable Asian animals. Later in the week, we will begin learning all about the continent of Africa. Students will learn that the Sahara Desert is in Africa as well as the Savanna Grasslands. We will explore more about the Eyo Festival, which is a traditional masquerade in Nigeria. Students will get to make their own African masquerade masks.

P.E,

Greetings families,

        Due to various scheduling conflicts,  all P.E. classes will take place outside for the next several weeks. As the temperatures heat up, please send a water bottle to school with your child/ren.  We will be sure to give students water breaks during P.E. If your child requires sunscreen, please apply it before school starts. Students may also wear a hat (free of pop-culture) during P.E. Feel free to reach out to us with any questions. Have a great day and Go Chargers!

Best,

Coach Warren 

Week 29 - March 19-March 22 (No School Monday)

Happy Sunday! What a gorgeous weekend we have had! I hope you've been able to enjoy some of it. A reminder that we do not have school Monday this week. I'm looking forward to seeing your child(ren)s smiling faces on Tuesday morning! I cannot believe we are venturing into our final quarter together!

We are having a girl!

Congratulations to Ethan for being our February
 Virtue of the Month award winner!

Here is a look at our first week of the last quarter!

Spalding: We will continue to review all phonograms while adding the remainder of our learned phonograms to homework. Our spelling words this week will be: six, boy, book, by, have, are, had, over, must, make. 

Sight Words: This week we will introduce list 7.

Literature: When we return from break, we will read the story Mouse Soup.  Please have your child bring in their copy of Mouse Soup to read together as a class. We will discuss the problem and solution of the story and observe how the mouse outsmarts the tricky weasel. Our poem will be the Muffin Man.  

Math:  This week we will finish our unit on counting back and review some topics from the third quarter.  We will work on subtracting with a number line, number bonds, and addition/ counting on.  We will also begin a math program called Rocket Math.  Students will be timed and asked to answer addition or subtract sentences in that time frame.  We recommend that you review these when they are sent home and work with your child on any math facts that they are struggling with.

History and Geography: We will begin a unit on the continent of Asia this week! Students will learn that it is the largest of the seven continents. We will explore the country of China as well as what a Chinese character is. We will talk about many Asian animals and will focus specifically on Asian elephants this week.

Week 28 March 4- March 8

Happy Friday Families! Your child probably came home with some exciting news about their teacher today! Here is a precious video of their reaction to "Cracking the Code." I apologize that it's sideways :/ Not sure how to flip it!

Spalding: We will learn our last three phonograms ti (cue: tall), si, ci (cue:short). We now know 70 phonograms!  Please be sure that you are also going back to the alphabet and reviewing the first 26 phonograms, especially all of the vowel sounds. Our words this week will be: your, out, time, may, into, him, today, look, did, like.

Sight Words: We will review list 6. 

Literature: This week’s story will be Mike Mulligan.  Students may bring in their copy of Mike Mulligan on Monday. Please hold off on reading the story ahead of time, we would like to enjoy the story for the first time as a class family. We will explore the importance of hard work and discuss the virtues Mike Mulligan and Mary Anne display. Our poem will be I’m a Little Teapot. 

Math:

This week we will continue our unit on subtraction. We will focus on teaching your scholar how subtraction is a whole minus a part. This will be demonstrated through number bonds, and various tangible examples. In the afternoon we will continue working on subtraction through fun games such as “Who Stole the Cookie from the Cookie Jar”!

Science: This week we will be learning all about the life cycle of frogs. Students will learn a song, explore the parts of a frog, and learn about the term “amphibian.” Scholars will make their own mini book about frogs as well as create a silly frog mask with a fun  tongue!