Week of April 15 - 19

Morning Meeting Schedule: Each student will have a time where they can share.  We will start with a greeting and then students will have two minutes to tell a story, show or talk about something they would like to bring to share with the class.  They will ask for three questions or comments.  If they are bringing in an item to share, it must fit in their backpack.

Here is our schedule:

Mondays: Davis, Nolan, Audrey, Connor
Tuesdays: Lizzie, Brayden, Josiah, Elias
Wednesdays: Emmy D., Owen, Julia, North, Brianna
Thursdays: Genevieve, Alonso, Emily O., Caden, Rory
Fridays: Jackson, Kaia, Rein, Amelia, Barbara 

Our lesson from SecondStep (Social and Emotional Learning) and MindUp: We will be talking about Mindful Movement.

Ms. Rasicot's Spelling Words - Unit 25 soft and hard c and g
camp cave can't face gift gym girl wagon gem germ


Mrs. Spanjers' Spelling Words - Unit 25 sh words
shop fish dash ship sheet shut hush shed sheep mush

           Practice spelling words on: spellingcity.com

Reading & Writing

Unit 9 - Skill: Make Connections & Determining Cause and Effect

Moving into our second week of the unit, students will begin making deeper connections to texts they read.  Students will continue identifying cause and effect, but will be using a graphic organizer to organize their thoughts.  We will also identify and discuss nonfiction text features (table of contents, glossary, and sidebars).  

The Daily Five in Reading:

*Read to Self:  Read! Read! Read!

*Read to Someone: Reading to someone

*Listen to Reading: Working on RazKids, Reading Eggs

*Work on Writing: Spelling City, write spelling words in sentences, write a story using our spelling
                             words

*Word Work - working on fluency with reading passages and work on Sight Words.  Working on soft and hard c and g words

In Math:

We started Unit 11 - We are working on place values and 3 digit adding and subtracting.

NEW---In Genius Hour: Students are starting to do research based projects.  They will be deciding on a topic and checking out books from the library to do research.  They will be making posters so they can present their research to the class.

This Weeks Specialist Schedule:

Monday:       Day 4
Tuesday:      Day 5
Wednesday: Day 6
Thursday:     Day 1
Friday:          Day 2

On Day 1 we go to: Gym and Media

On Day 2 we go to: Music

On Day 3 we go to: Media and Gym

On Day 4 we go to: Art (Please have your child bring back their library book so they can 
                                      check out a new one on Day 5)

On Day 5 we go to: Gym and Media (Check out day)

On Day 6 we go to: Art and Music

Help your child remember to bring back their Friday Folders on Monday and bring a healthy snack every day!

MARK YOUR CALENDAR:

5/27  No School - Memorial Day