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