Our last 7 days together - so sad.

Happy Helpers:

Tuesday - Sawyer, Wednesday - Tommy, Thursday - Zane

Tuesday (May 12) 6:15 - rising grade level meeting & 7:30 - Campus meeting

 Thursday, May 15 - TAD prep day 10:00-12:00

Tuesday, May 19 - Talent Show - 8:30 - all school dismissal @ noon

Wednesday, May 20 - Is anyone available to come help me some or all from 10:30-noon?

My own children have honors day during this time.  All school dismissal @ noon.

Thursday, May 21 - Last day of school & TAD 11:00-noon - all school dismissal @ noon

Game Week - Bring your favorite game from home this week. 

I am so sad that the end is near.  Your children have been such a joy this year!  This week and next week, we will be reviewing Psalm 139:1-14 and finishing the Jesus Storybook Bible.  We will be rereading their favorite books of the week from this year.  We will do lots of reading in readers and creative writing. We will continue to practice trick words and math lessons (money, shapes, number sense).   During centers, we are having game week and rotate playing different games.  

This will be the last blog entry.  Also, I am available this summer if you need to ask me any questions concerning your child or things to work with him/her.  I will attach a list of activities to their narrative (report card) for ideas to work on this summer.  As always the best thing is to read, read, read! Have him/her read to you and you read to them.  Work on trick words - reading and spelling.  Write, write, write!  Have lots and lots of fun because they grow up way too quickly!

Mrs. Lawrence

May 5-8

Happy Helpers - Monday - Evie; Tuesday - Jack; Wednesday -

Mary Grace; 

Thursday - Phoebe

Wednesday - Chapel - Dressy Enrichment (Grant to help)  

Thursday - Library last day (return all books)

Upcoming:

Monday, May 11 - No school, teacher workday

Tuesday, May 12 - Rising grade level meetings - 6:15; Campus Mtg. 7:30

Thursday, May 14 - TAD prep day 10:00-12:00 (Ginny, Mindy, Anna)

May 19 - Talent Show - 8:30 - all school dismissal @ noon

May 21 - Last day of school - all school dismissal @ noon

What We Will Learn This Week:

• Bible - Psalm 139:14 & Jesus Storybook Bible 
• Book of The Week - Runaway Bunny  by Margaret Wise Brown
  
• Phonics/Reading/Writing - We are done with the whole phonics book!!  We will learn 3 new phonic skills this week from Saxon reading.  oo - in book and tooth - Read "Look Who Can Cook" reader; ee - in sheep - Read "Three Rich Sheep" decodable reader. I will send home readers to practice. Please send back the next day.
  Trick Words (practice at home with cards) - Review all words - read quickly (less than a couple of seconds)
  
  Continue to drill these at home and after they can read them, learn to spell them.  Reading sight/trick words increases reading fluency dramatically.  So I am going to start timing the kids read the list of trick words and have them try to beat their time each week.  You can do this at home as well.  If they don't know the word immediately, then they need to work on it.
• Math -  identify shapes (hexagon, rhombus, parallelogram, trapezoid, cube, cylinder, cone) - Make barn using shapes with pastels; raisin experiment; calendar skills
• Centers - Make a book & art project; Assessments 
• Habit -Remembering

Prayer - Mary Michael - healing, wisdom; Henry - job

Looking forward to another great week!
Mrs. Lawrence

April 27-30

This Week:  

Happy Helpers - Monday - Tommy; Tuesday - Zane; Wednesday -Avery; Thursday -Evie

Tuesday - Farm Field trip -Be at school by 8:10. Leaving at 8:15.

Important Information about trip - Car Assignments: Drivers meet me at 8:00 in Main Entrance
    Car 1 - Mary Michael Massie and the 4 boys - Tommy, Sawyer, Zane, Jack
    Car 2 - Wendy Crawford (driver) & Anna Voss (rider) and the girls -
                 Avery, Evie, Mary Grace, Phoebe
**Work with your parent driver to get booster seat for your child. No booster seat, no trip. 

Upcoming:

Wednesday, May 6 - Chapel Dressy Enrichment (Grant Wells parent helper)
Thursday, May 7 - Last library day
Monday, May 11 - no school for lower elementary - teacher workday
Tuesday, May 12 -Rising Grade Level Meeting @ 6:15/Campus Meeting 7:30

Thursday, May 14 - TAD prep day 10:00-12:00

What We Will Learn This Week:

• Bible - Psalm 1390:13-14 & Jesus Storybook Bible 
• Book of The Week - Blossom Comes Home by James Herriott
• Phonics/Reading/Writing - This is the last week of our phonics book! Reading trick words quickly and in sentences; read real and nonsense words; read sentences and readers; write words and sentences; write upper/lower case letters quickly (important in writing fluency); long vowels and reading words with long vowels
  Trick Words (practice at home with cards) - review all - no new ones
  
  Continue to drill these at home and after they can read them, learn to spell them.  Reading sight/trick words increases reading fluency dramatically.  So I am going to start timing the kids read the list of trick words and have them try to beat their time each week.  You can do this at home as well.  If they don't know the word immediately, then they need to work on it.
• Math -  cone & 3 dimensional shapes, time to hour and half, more/adding, charts/surveys
• Centers - Draw cow with template (use pastels and watercolor); writing sentences about farm field trip; write farm words in ABC order, puzzles; games; individual assessments
  
• Habit -Fortitude 

Mrs. Lawrence

April 20-23

Celebrating Sawyer's Birthday 

This Week:  

Monday (tomorrow) Home Meeting 
@ Summers' home 6:30. 
This is our last parent meeting as a class and hope everyone can attend. Address is: 

3195 River Summit Trail, Duluth 30097

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

Upcoming:

Tuesday, April 28 - Leave at 8:15 - Cagle Family Farm Field Trip (Drivers meet at 8:00 at carpool area at cones inside) Drivers are: Mary Michael Massie, Judith McNeely, Wendy Crawford. All students need to bring in their booster seats. 

May 6 - all school Chapel (dressy enrichment)

What We Will Learn This Week:

• Bible -  Psalm 139:13 & Jesus Storybook Bible 
• Book of The Week - Monarch and Milkweed by Helen Frost
• Phonics/Reading/Writing - Wilson Unit 5 - dictation of words and sentences, read/spell nonsense words, digraph review,  word families, practice reading with fluency, new reader "Will She Tell"
  Trick Words (practice at home with cards) - do, there (last ones for year)
  
  Continue to drill these at home and after they can read them, learn to spell them.
• Math -  Identify coins/value and paying for items using coins, equivalent sets, identifying doubles
• Centers - Butterfly book, butterfly glyph
  
• Habit -Fortitude

 

Mrs. Lawrence

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!