Friday, April 25, 2014

March 25, 2014

Thanks for helping your students with their presentations.  It's been so fun to watch them blossom and teach the class something!  Next week is the last week of our rainforest unit.  In May, we will start our plant unit.

Please remember that Student Council is collecting pop tabs (or as we call them in Florida "soda tabs") for the Ronald McDonald House.  Also please make sure your child has a snack Monday through Thursday.


Theme: Rainforest

Sight Word: had

Wonderful Word: scrumptious

Nursery Rhyme: Jack and Jill

Poem: Three Talking Toucans

Math:
- Identifying the Relationship between Larger and Smaller Numbers
- Counting Forward and Backward on a Number Line
- Identifying Numbers 11-30
- Identifying a Sphere
- 2D vs 3D shapes

Religion: Jesus Teaches and Helps Us

Writing: Narrative Writing

Word Family: -en

Letter Formation: O and P

Word Work: Real Words vs Silly Words

Have a great week!


Monday, April 14, 2014

April 14, 2014

I hope everyone had a nice Spring Break!  Please remember that there is no school Friday.  Enjoy  your Easter!

Theme: Rainforest

Sight Word: you

Wonderful Word: appetite

Poem: Three Frolicking Red Eyed Tree Frogs

Nursery Rhyme: Row, Row, Row Your Boat

Religion: Holy Week

Daily Five: Middle Sounds, Long and Short Vowels

Math: -making ABBC patterns
           - diving by sharing
           - 3D shapes
           - identifying left and right
           - tanagrams


Writing Prompt: What did you do for Spring Break?

Our Students as Teachers projects start this week.  Please see the schedule below and let me know if you have any questions.


Monday 4/14/14
Young
Walton
Tuesday 4/15/14
Vu
Tallman
Wednesday 4/16/14
Starks
Snyder
Thursday 4/17/14
Smith
Simpson
Monday 4/21/14
Simon
Sarasin
Tuesday 4/22/14
Ruszkowski
Piwowar
Wednesday 4/23/14
Penn
Pavnica
Thursday 4/24/14
Patel
Parker
Friday 4/25/14
Neeser
Kloska
Monday 4/28/14
Kirsch
Kempf
Tuesday 4/29/14
Horn
Hill
Wednesday 4/30/14
Diroll
Busk

Friday, March 28, 2014

March 28, 2014

Please remember that next Friday is 2:00 Dismissal.

Theme: Rainforest

Author of the Month: Laura Numeroff

Sight Word: come

Wonderful Word: pleasure

Nursery Rhyme: Yam's are Yummy!

Poem: Colors of the Rainforest

Word Family: -og

Math: -2D and -3D Shapes

Religion: God the Father Gives Us Jesus

Letter Formation: J, K

Word Work: beginning and ending sounds

In April we will begin our "Students as Teachers" project.  For this project, students will choose a topic to teach to the class.  Each student will be assigned a date.  Information will go home on Monday.

Have a nice weekend!





Friday, March 21, 2014

March 21, 2014

Theme: Community Helpers

Sight Word: come

Wonderful Word: wander

Word Family: -et

Poem: Community Helpers

Nursery Rhyme: My Five Senses

Math: -dividing by sharing
          - identifying and ordering numbers
          - subtraction
         - comparing numbers

Word Work: singular vs plural

Religion: Lent

Letter Formation: I and J

Science: -living plants
              - the 5 senses

Remember Thursday is our Community Helper Dress-up Day!

Have a good week!

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Father's Mass

The procedure for this has now changed.  Please follow Mr. Hoffman's directions.




Let me know if you have any questions!

Friday, March 14, 2014

March 14, 2014

Remember the Father's Mass is Wednesday March 19 at 8:15 am.  The students should head directly to the Church with their guest.  If they do not have a guest to sit with, they should come to the classroom by 8:00 am.  After the Mass, the guest must walk them back to the classroom.

Theme: St. Patrick's Day

Sight Word: what

Wonderful Word: interfere

Nursery Rhyme: Xavier

Poem: Little Leprechaun

Math: - identifying a cylinder
          - counting nickels to 50 cents
          - ABC patterns

Word Family: -ad

Science: -plants
              - 5 senses

Letter Formation: I and J

Religion: God Chooses Mary

Have a great week!

Friday, March 7, 2014

March 7, 2014

Report Cards went home today.  Please let me know if you have any questions.  One reason I like this format for a report card is that it tells you exactly what you need to be working on at home.

Remember we're practicing tucking in our shirts.  Please have students tuck in their shirt before they come to school.

Father's Mass is Wednesday March 19th at 8:15 am.  The children and their guest should go directly to the church (backpacks can be left in the car or in the church basement).  If your child does not have a guest to sit with, they should report to the classroom by 8:00 to sit with me.  After Mass, the guest should escort the child back to our classroom.  Thanks for your flexibility with this.  If any of this changes, I will let you know.

Thursday March 13th is a 2:00 Dismissal.  Please plan accordingly.

The school play, Beauty and the Beast, is March 14 and 15.  Please purchase tickets through the office.  It is always a wonderful show.

Our classroom Lenten challenge is to do one kind thing a day for another person in the class.  Please discuss this with your children and encourage kindness!

Finally, thanks for all who came to our Read-In today!


Theme: Community Helpers

Sight Word: go

Wonderful Word: spice

Poem: My Community

Nursery Rhyme: Little Bo Peep

Math:
-making ABC patterns
-acting out some more, some went away
- identifying nickels
- scattered configurations of 10

Word Family: -ip/-ug

Letter Formation: G and H

Writing: making mini-books

Religion: We Learn about God with Our Friends
               Lent

Science: The Five Senses