Weekly Overview- April 30-May 4
HERE'S WHAT'S HAPPENING IN ROOM 14..... APRIL 30-MAY
4
Dear Parents:
The animal report notes and
rubber-banded t-shirts are due this Wednesday! Please oversee your child so
that s/he is not just copying facts directly from the resources. The
Walk-a-thon pledge envelopes are due this May 10. Please help us to raise money
for updating our computer lab!
LANGUAGE ARTS:
DOL/Sitton/Phonograms: We will continue to practice our English skills, spelling and phonograms. We will have a phonogram quiz on Thursday.
Reading: We will review all
the stories in our book for themes 9 & 10 and then take the comprehension
test on Tuesday. Our F&P testing for the spring standard text level (Level
I) will be done over the next few weeks. Higher levels may also be tested in
certain cases.
English: We are still working on the
categorization of nouns, verbs, and adjectives; however, we will expand our
work to include labeling them in sentences. There will be a sentence-writing
test on Friday.
Spelling: Once again
students have the opportunity to have free time on Friday during our regular
spelling test time IF homework and the practice test are completely error free.
1. Did you go after them? 6. I have many friends.
2. Eat your lunch before you play. 7. It's a nice day!
3. How old is she? 8. Two people are here.
4. Will he get that book?
9. We saw a pretty house.
5. What did you give to her? 10. I'll see him soon.
MATH: We will continue to work on different
adding strategies. This week we will work on the strategy of making ten to add
8 and 9: 8+6 is the same as 10+4 which equals 14, so 8+6=14; 9+7 is the same as
10+6 which equals 16, so 9+7=16. These two strategies are very important.
Please encourage their use on any math homework. We will also work on adding 3
numbers. The idea is to first look for tens facts and doubles facts within the
3 numbers to aid in the addition process: 4+6+5=? 4+6=10, 10+5=15, so 4+6+5=15 or 7+7+5=? 7+7=14, 14+5=19, so 7+7+5=19.
SCIENCE:
The final copy paper and illustration page for the research report will be
given out on Friday. The entire report is due on May 16, but your child may
turn it in as soon as s/he is finished. Please
make sure that your child turns in his/her brown notes along with the final
project. If your child wishes to draw illustrations at the bottoms of
the pages, s/he may. Thank you for guiding your child through this project. We
will have our final lab this week. The students will be experimenting with how
heat/cold can change matter from one state to another.
LIBRARY:
Please help your child to remember to bring his/her library book back to school
on Tuesday.
*********************SPECIAL NOTES*************************
PROGRESS REPORTS:
This week and next will be the last weeks that you will receive a
progress report until you receive the final report card due to the busyness of
these final weeks (PTA HONORARY SERVICE AWARD NIGHT, OPEN HOUSE …) and then I
will be starting to compile information for the report cards. If you ever have any questions
about your child's progress, please feel free to e-mail or write a note to me
and I will get back to you as soon as I can. Continue to use your child’s work packet as the gauge of
your child’s strengths and weaknesses. I hope that these progress reports have been of use to you
in keeping track of your child's progress.
LOOKING AHEAD:
May 11 – Walk-a-thon 3-6 pm
May 15 – PTA Honorary
Service awards and Chorus Spring concert – 6:30pm
May 16 – Animal report due!
THE WEEK AFTER THAT:
May 21- Furlough Day
May 22 - Open House (7:00pm) – everyone come!...Minimum day (1:37 dismissal)
May 24- San Francisco Zoo
field trip
May 25 – Minimum Day
dismissal – 1:37
THE WEEK AFTER
THAT:
May 28 – Memorial Day
holiday
May 29– TENTATIVE
First Grade Music Program – 9:00am in the cafeteria
May 31 – Play Day -1:37 dismissal
June 1 – Last
day of School – 12:30 dismissal
Have a great week!
Sincerely,
Mrs. Pierce
posted by Mrs. Pierce @ 2:40 PM
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