April 21-25

Dear Parents,
   I hope everyone is enjoying this wonderful Spring weather! The past couple of weeks have been action packed as we continue to prepare for Second Grade. We have traveled to our Northern and Southern neighbors: Canada and Mexico and are now ready to travel around the world. Can you believe we only have 4 weeks left together?  The children already promised me that they would visit me next year; I hope you do as well!

 One of our last four weeks together will be INTERNATIONAL TRAVELERS WEEK!!! I know we have been excited about traveling all over the world through our new I.B. Unit, but International Travelers Week will take learning to a whole new level as we travel to Austrailia! From what I have heard so far, this week will be amazing! Please consider signing up to volunteer through our class' Shutterfly website!

Here is a look into this week's curriculum

Reading:

Classifying and Categorizing reading material.

Words to know:

only

goes

laugh

sometimes

before

people

country

today

(Red Words: On Spelling Test)



Spelling Words:

ate

care

close

here

like

same

state

these

those

while

Phonics:

Reviewing /oo/ as in spoon, food, stood ect.

Social Studies:

Studying Brazil, Identifying the Amazon River and Rainforests as well as important facts that relate to this South American country.

Math:

Practicing automatic recognition of addition and subtraction facts within 20.

Identifying different steps to solving story problems. 

Adding and Subtracting double digit numbers.

Writing:

Writing an informational peice on the country of Brazil.

Important Announcements and Reminders:

• Our class is in need of more Emergency Snacks. If you are willing to donate some nutritional items to our class, it would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you for all that you do to support our class!

Mrs. Peake

April 1-5

Dear Parents,

    Thank you for visiting our classroom for our Portfolio Parties this past week! It was encouraging to see that you all had been setting goals throughout the year with your child. I could already see a difference in our classroom as I met with each of you and your child. We have worked very hard this year and the children are looking forward to reaching their different goals.

    Thank you so much to those of you who donated books to our classroom from the Book Fair! We received many books to add to our classroom library. Your generosity has been incredible this year!

   I also want to thank Luci Phillips for graciously offering to dye easter eggs with the children for Fun Friday this past week. The children had a BLAST dying their eggs!

              Here’s a look into the curriculum this week:

Reading:

Rereading texts to practice gaining fluency and to monitor understanding.

Phonics:

Review /ou/ &/ow/ ex: mouth, cow

Syllables: Consonant ‘le’

A focus on words and syllables that have a consonant followed by an ‘le’.

Grammar:

Identifying the subject in a sentence.

Social Studies/Science:

Introducing our new Central Idea and Unit “How We Express Ourselves”. Looking into our neighbors, Canada and Mexico to identify different cultures and compare them with our own.

Math:

Understanding Place Value.

Writing:

Continue to use the First Grade Writing Checklist to edit, revise and publish our writing.

Important Announcements and Reminders:

·      There will be NO Small Groups in the month of May, due to International Travelers Week and other projects that will be going on in the classroom during that time.

·      Please also continue to make sure that your child is early or on time to school so that they feel ready to conquer the day!

·      If you would like to be sent e-mails that detail your child’s progress in our AR Program you can use the following website to input your child’s login information.

https://hosted115.renlearn.com/51385/HomeConnect/Login.aspx

Thanks for your continued support!

Mrs. Peake

April 1-5

Dear Parents,

    Thank you for visiting our classroom for our Portfolio Parties this past week! It was encouraging to see that you all had been setting goals throughout the year with your child. I could already see a difference in our classroom as I met with each of you and your child. We have worked very hard this year and the children are looking forward to reaching their different goals.

    Thank you so much to those of you who donated books to our classroom from the Book Fair! We received many books to add to our classroom library. Your generosity has been incredible this year!

   I also want to thank Luci Phillips for graciously offering to dye easter eggs with the children for Fun Friday this past week. The children had a BLAST dying their eggs!

              Here’s a look into the curriculum this week:

Reading:

Rereading texts to practice gaining fluency and to monitor understanding.

Phonics:

Review /ou/ &/ow/ ex: mouth, cow

Syllables: Consonant ‘le’

A focus on words and syllables that have a consonant followed by an ‘le’.

Grammar:

Identifying the subject in a sentence.

Social Studies/Science:

Introducing our new Central Idea and Unit “How We Express Ourselves”. Looking into our neighbors, Canada and Mexico to identify different cultures and compare them with our own.

Math:

Understanding Place Value.

Writing:

Continue to use the First Grade Writing Checklist to edit, revise and publish our writing.

Important Announcements and Reminders:

·      There will be NO Small Groups in the month of May, due to International Travelers Week and other projects that will be going on in the classroom during that time.

·      Please also continue to make sure that your child is early or on time to school so that they feel ready to conquer the day!

·      If you would like to be sent e-mails that detail your child’s progress in our AR Program you can use the following website to input your child’s login information.

https://hosted115.renlearn.com/51385/HomeConnect/Login.aspx

Thanks for your continued support!

Mrs. Peake