MARK YOUR CALENDARS:
** Newly added dates are marked with ** for those who follow and mark their calendars every week.
Monday, April 16-Friday, April 20: NO SCHOOL - Spring Vacation
** Thursday, May 3rd: 12:30 Release
Thursday, May 31st: International Festival
Thursday, 6/7: Children's Museum field trip
NEW INFORMATION FOR FAMILIES:
CAP: Please send back signed CAP forms as soon as you can (see email sent today for forms). Your child needs a signed form to participate.
China Project: Your child came home today with a yellow sheet in his/her folder with information about an exciting home project that s/he will be working on over the next few weeks. Click HERE to access this sheet if you need it!
ASK ME ABOUTS:
Ask me about...
- my fable reader's theater.
- my opinions. This week, we began writing about our favorite books and gave reasons why we love these books.
- Beijing. What would I like to see if I were to visit Beijing? Why?
- the life cycles presentation that I had today. What living things did we encounter and talk about their life cycles.
- the spelling rules of oi and oy...When do you use oi? When do you use oy?
- telling time...ask me tell you the time on analog clocks when we encounter them.
LOOKING FORWARD:
Looking forward, we will:- continue our folktales unit by reading and discussing pourquoi tales.
- work in unit 13 in fundations, focusing on the vowel teams oa, oe and ow. Our new trick words are Monday, Tuesday, cousin, lose, tomorrow and beautiful.
- learn about buying, selling, consuming and producing in China.
- continue writing opinions about beloved books!
- begin a new math unit, focusing on subtraction, data and fractions.
Enjoy the weekend!
