Weekly Overview - May 7-11

HERE'S WHAT'S HAPPENING IN ROOM 14....MAY 7-11

Dear Parents:

Your child may take the rubber bands off his/her purple shirt tomorrow! The first time we will wear the shirt is for our zoo trip on May 24. Please make note of the special activities that are coming up in the next few weeks. I hope that everyone is planning on attending our Open House on May 22 at 7:00. Stop by and see what the children have been working on! I also recommend that you visit the 2^nd grade classes to see what your child has to look forward to for next year.

LANGUAGE ARTS:

DOL/Sitton/Phonograms: We continue to review English and spelling skills. There will not be a phonogram quiz on Thursday. We will be using this time to do reading level testing.

Reading: I will be testing reading levels throughout the week. No one will be tested beyond level L and I will be testing most students for 2 levels above their levels for the 2^nd trimester. Keep encouraging your child to read the Take-Home books. Many students are not meeting the once-a-week minimum turn-in requirements.

English: The students will continue to work with classification of nouns, verbs and adjectives. There will be a word classification test on Thursday. We will also be having an assessment for sentence writing.

Spelling:

1.  Would you do it again?                          6.  Don't talk about it!

2.  They made a fruit pie.                             7.  Show me how to draw it.

3.  Who is your new teacher?                       8.  Was she at the party?

4.  I'll go to bed early.                                   9.  Did you ride the black pony?

5.  Tell her to come outside.                        10.  Please play with us.

MATH: We will finish up our topic for addition with solving story problems with 2 parts. Our topic test will be on Tuesday. We will also have a 50-point addition facts standard test on Thursday. We will spend some time reviewing subtraction strategies such as related facts and fact families. We will be working on facts up to 20.

SOCIAL STUDIES:  We will be working with familiarizing ourselves with the names and location of the seven continents (North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica) and four major oceans (Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic). Any review of this you can do at home with a globe or world map would be greatly appreciated!

SCIENCE: Your child should be working on his/her animal report. Please refer to the directions page stapled inside the red folder. If you have any questions, please let me know before your child does something that may not be correct. Please make sure that your child follows directions with respect to the coloring and labeling of the scientific drawing.

***********************SPECIAL NOTES***********************

Friday- OLYMPICS WALK-A-THON!! 3-6pm

May 15 – PTA Honorary Service Award Night and Chorus Spring concert  @ 6:30

May 16 – Animal report due

May 21 – Furlough Day – no school

May 23 –Minimum day dismissal (1:37) - OPEN HOUSE- 7:00 –SEE YOU THERE!

May 24 - San Francisco Zoo trip –students will wear their tie-dye shirts for the first time- Parent chaperones will be given instructions soon.

May 25 – 1:37 dismissal

May 28 – Memorial Day holiday

May 29 – First Grade program- 9:00 am in the cafeteria

Have a great week!

Sincerely,

Mrs. Pierce