March 30-April 2

Psalm 139:11-12 "If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me and the light about me be night, even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is bright as the day for darkness is as light to you.

This Week:  

Happy Helpers - Monday -Jack ; Tuesday -Mary Grace ; Wednesday -Phoebe; Thursday -Sawyer

Thursday - Library & Kite & Rocket Day - 12:30-2:30 

                 Mystery Reader - Scott MacDonald

April:

Next week - Spring Break

Monday, April 20th -home meeting @ Summers' home

Tuesday, April 28 - Cagle Dairy Farm Field Trip (Drivers - Wendy Crawford, Mary Michael Massie, Judith McNeely) 8:00-noon

What We Will Learn This Week:

• Bible - Psalm 139:1-12 & Jesus Storybook Bible (begin new testament)
• Book of The Week - Chicken Sunday by Patricia Polacco (author & illustrator) Russia (map) and vocabulary
• Phonics/Reading/Writing - Wilson Unit 5 - Long & short vowels (auditory discrimination), read decodable reader, My Pal Bo, with long vowel, dictation of words and sentences, make sentences, find and write trick words, readers
  Trick Words (practice at home with cards) - by, my
  Continue to drill these at home and after they can read them, learn to spell them.
• Math - Make April calendar; Tangrams - designs, flip, turn, slide; use number lines; measure length and estimation
• Centers - Decodable reader (My Pal Bo),  read words on plastic eggs (word families), auditory discrimination activity with eggs, Jelly bean measuring; Pysanky egg design/painting
• New Habit -Fortitude (April)

Hope you have a great week!

Mrs. Lawrence 

March 23-26

This Week:  
Happy Helpers - Monday - Zane; Tuesday -Avery; Wednesday -Evie
Thursday - No School, Conferences- Schedule below
8:00 - Crawford
8:30 - Wells
9:00 - Wurttemberg
9:30 - MacDonald
10:00 - Massie
10:30 - Summers
11:30 - Voss

What We Will Learn This Week:

• Bible - Psalm 139:11 & Jesus Storybook Bible 
• Book of The Week - Rechenka's Eggs by Patricia Polacco (author study on her and Russia)
• Oviparous Animals (animals that hatch from eggs); Homework - Tuesday - find a picture of an oviparous animal and we will use this picture on Wednesday for centers.
• Phonics/Reading/Writing - Wilson Unit 5 -Sentence structure, sentence dictation, narrative fiction vs. informational books. Digraphs (sh, ch, th, wh, ck)
  Morning Writing -March book - practice spelling & reading trick words.
  Trick Words (practice at home with cards) - of, have, where
  Continue to drill these at home and after they can read them, learn to spell them.
• Math - ABBC patterns; divide by sharing/comparing numbers; addition using cards
• Centers - Trick Words Hunt and sentences; Egg watercolor painting with oviparous picture from homework; Decodable reader "Spin to Win"; War card game (math)
  
•  Habit -Truthfulness

Hope you have a great week!
Mrs. Lawrence

March 16-19

"If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,"
Psalm 139:11

This Week:  
Happy Helpers - Tuesday - Phoebe; Wednesday -Sawyer; Thursday -Tommy
Thursday -Library
Next Thursday, March 27 - No school k-2 - Conferences

What We Will Learn This Week:

• Bible - Psalm 139:11 & Jesus Storybook Bible 
• Book of The Week - Peter and the Wolf by Sergei Prokofiev
  Composer Study of Prokofiev
  Types of instruments
  Vocabulary - symphony, orchestra, classical music, composer, genre, conductor, Russia (map),
• Phonics/Reading/Writing - Begin Wilson Unit 5 -Sentence structure, sentence dictation, narrative fiction vs. informational books.
  Morning Writing -March book - practice spelling & reading trick words.
  Trick Words (practice at home with cards) - or, for, what 
  Continue to drill these at home and after they can read them, learn to spell them.
• Math - Cylinders,cube, cone, sphere; Identify money, count by 1's, 5's, 10's; adding with manipulatives
• Centers - Diorama (illustrate beginning, middle, end of Peter and the Wolf), Journals, decodable reader (Pig's Jet), Story puppets - retelling Peter and the Wolf
  
•  Habit -Truthfulness

Hope you have a great week!
Mrs. Lawrence

Zane's 7th birthday 

So glad to have a beautiful, warm day!

Avery's show and tell - playing her violin and we all loved it!

March 19-12

This Week: 
Happy Helpers - Monday - Zane; Tuesday - Avery; Wednesday -Evie; Thursday -Mary Grace
Wednesday -Late start @ 9:25, Jeans Day $3 for missions
Thursday - Mystery Reader - Cami Summers (& Zane's birthday blessing)
                  -Library

Upcoming in March:
Monday, March 16th - Service project/teacher workday (Monique Wells - lead, Wendy Crawford, Anna Voss) 8:15 @ carpool -noon carpool
Thursday, March 26- No school k-2 - Conferences (Sign-up email next week)

What We Will Learn This Week:

• Bible - Jesus Storybook Bible 
• Book of The Week -  Author study - Ezra Jack Keats
• Phonics/Reading/Writing - Wilson Unit 4 (last week of unit 4) - Digraphs - 2 consonants make 1 sound (th, sh, ch, ck, wh). Long/short vowels. Review concept this week is -ck is used after a short vowel. Make words and sentences with sounds/letters learned thus far.  Read in decodable readers, dictation and creative writing. 
  Morning Writing -March book - practice spelling & reading trick words.
  Trick Words (practice at home with cards) - they, who, your
  Continue to drill these at home and after they can read them, learn to spell them.
• Math -Nickels and counting by 5's, counting nickels and it's value; identify money; patterns (AB, ABB, ABC)
• Centers - 100 days of school continued (portrait of when they are 100); Peter's chair collage (Ezra Jack Keats); Sandwich book for comprehension and story parts; 
  
•  Habit -Truthfulness

Mrs. Lawrence