Monday, April 6

Monday, April 6
Gold Day (No computer class or library.)

 Irish Pride Celebration Today at 8:30
 Students of the month for March will be recognized as well as new students to our school. The new character word for the month will be introduced: patience. We will end the celebration by singing our Irish Pride song.

Big Book: Not A Box By: Antoinette Portis Genre: Informational Text Print Concepts: End Punctuation

Social Studies Connection: Perseverance

In this fiction text, children meet a young girl named Mei Mei and her grandpa, Gong Gong. Gong Gong teaches Mei Mei how to do tai chi, and she works hard to figure out the complex hand, arm, and leg movements. Mei Mei teaches Gong Gong how to do yoga, and he works hard to learn the different poses. Even though they both struggle to learn new things, they persevere.

Social Studies Connection: Perseverance

In this fiction text, children meet a young girl named Mei Mei and her grandpa, Gong Gong. Gong Gong teaches Mei Mei how to do tai chi, and she works hard to figure out the complex hand, arm, and leg movements. Mei Mei teaches Gong Gong how to do yoga, and he works hard to learn the different poses. Even though they both struggle to  

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

Phonological Awareness: Blending Phonemes, Segmenting

Phonics Focus Skill: Digraph ch

Irregular Words: review
 WRITING AND GRAMMAR

Interrogatives: a word, phrase, or sentence structure used to ask a question, typically ending with a question mark.
 Handwriting: Letter Ee
(Tall Line Down-ez Across Uppercase Letters: L, H, T, I, F, E)
**We did not get to this before Spring Break.

 Literacy Jobs 

Math: Add with a Number Path

The children will work with a number path similar to the picture below. 

Researchers believe that a number line is just too abstract for our young mathematicians. Our students need to be able to visually see each unit, which is the box containing a number. This allows for concrete understanding of seeing how many spaces it is from one number to another.

The kids will do a number of problems similar to this:

There were 4 frogs on a log. 2 more hopped on. How many are on the log? 

    Phy Ed Today  

~ PLEASE return your child's water bottle!
~ If you didn't return your child's spring break homework, please do so tomorrow...we are having lunch in our classroom then!
~We enjoyed celebrating with Lukas before break...

Sunday, April 5

Sunday, April 5
HaPpY EaSteR!

*A couple of reminders...
~ Return your child's water bottle tomorrow.
~ Lunch will be in our classroom on Tuesday for those who return the reading packet!