Weekly Update

Info to Know

• Our baby chicks are here and we have named them!! Marshmelloe and KeyKey are there given names after much thought and class wide voting. Come by to check them, our worm farm, the caterpillars, and our plants out!! Lots of life cycles we are observing!
• CRCT is being administered this week in grades 1-8. Please be mindful of the testing by having your little darling to school on time. Also, please no parent volunteers until next week...enjoy your week off!
• Due to the testing, there will be no reading groups. The girls were able to select a book to use at home this week. Please return the books by Friday.
• Lunch menus came home; please be sure to return them by the due date.
• Our field trip to Farmer Redd's is on April 30. Permission slips must be returned by Wednesday!
• The Kindergarten Step Up ceremony will be held on Thursday, May 27 @ 10:00 am. Please pencil this into your calendars and keep you ears perked for info for our own class reception and luncheon that will follow the grade-level ceremony.
• As of now, all the info I have for field day is the date: Tuesday, May 18. As information is given to me, I will forward it to you!

Academic Update

• Last week: We began our new unit, "Making A Change." We wrote about what we know already about how things grow and change and then we wrote about what we want to learn. Our chicks came and we sure do love to observe and write about them! We also planted some flower seeds and prepared our worm farm. In math, we made clocks, learned about the hour and hour hand, practiced the "counting on" strategy, and learned a place value game. We really are focused in determining the many types of literature and then classifying it by its purpose: informative, persuasive, and narrative/entertainment. We learned the sounds the final -y can make and more sight words! It was a busy week!
• This week: We now have our worms, our plants have sprouted, and the chicks continue to grow. This week's focus will be the first stages of life. We will focus on eggs, seeds, and how those become embryos and fetuses. (please help your little darling with her understanding of reproduction) In math, we will learn about the dollar bill, reinforce our knowledge of function machines, and make a few graphs. Finally, we will learn the sounds of -igh and -ight and have explicit vocabulary instruction.

Weekly Websites

• Practice making compound words.
• Play Earth Day games.
• Virtually grow plants and take a quiz.