May 4-7, 2010

 

Important Information:

·        School will be dismissed at 2:00 P.M. next Wednesday, May 14^th due to monthly staff development meetings.

·        Field trip to Florissant Fossil Beds on Tuesday, May 18^th

·        Bookmobile next Friday, May 14^th at 2:00 P.M.

 

This Week’s Highlights

·        Enjoyed making special treasures and performing for our beloved parents at the Parents Tea

 

Kindergarten:

·        Completed the MAPS assessment for reading and math

·        Wrote and drew in our journals daily

·        Read and acted out a Chinese folk tale titled “Ma Lien and the Magic Brush”

·        Reading comprehension and retelling:  Warthogs Paint;  Can You See It?;  Art by Anne;  My Pet and Me;  Where Is My Pup?;  Zip? Zig Zag? Yes!;  “Children in Paintings”

·        Phonemic awareness/phonics:  phoneme blending, isolation and substitution, /y/, /z/

·        High frequency words:  me, where

·        Writing:  a chart, sentences, a greeting card

 

·        Learned about the life cycle and body parts of dragonflies

·        Math:  generated equivalent names for numbers, made number collection posters, used related pairs of numbers to identify function rules

 

1^st Grade:

·        Wrote and drew in our journals daily

·        This Week’s Theme:  Let’s Build

·        Read and acted out the fairy tale “The Three Little Pigs” and the nursery rhyme “London Bridge”

·        Reading comprehension, retelling and cause/effect:  The Town that Grew;  Roy’s Rich Soil;  The Birdhouse;  Jenny’s Habitat;  Sand Castle;  Build With Sand and Ice

·        Phonics/spelling:  the sound of oi and oy as in soil and boy

·        Learned about animals that live at the seashore, and about the lifecycle of a ladybug

·        Math: continued our exploration of fractions, completed a progress check on this unit

 

 

Happy Mother’s Day!!

Mrs. MacDonald