April 15-19

Parents,

What an awesome field trip! We enjoyed learning what happens behind a production at Hale Center Theater, and seeing where the stars hang out! We also enjoyed a “picnic” at the park. Check out the blog for pictures!

This week is safety week. Please allow your child to bring a scooter or bike and a helmet on Friday to participate in our school Bike Rodeo where students will practice bike safety. 

I will be sending out a survey this week. This will help us make changes for next year, and pass on information to second grade of things you have found useful.

A HUGE thank you for the donations for our Chinese Dragon so far! It’s quite the project, and we wouldn’t be able to do it without your help! We will be putting it together in art next week, and are looking for parents who may want to come in and help. We also need one more parent to help cut and/or sew at home. Please let paynelaurieck@gmail.com know if you are available to help.

Listed below are a few more items we are looking for to help. If you have any, please send them our way.

-A few more fabric scraps, only in greens, yellows, oranges, reds or golds color.

-Tacky glue (even if it’s half a bottle)

-Gold Spray Paint

Mark your calendars:

April 19: Bike Rodeo

May 8,10: Math Testing 

May 9: Field Trip to Thanksgiving Point Gardens
May 17: Dance Festival

May 22: Field Day

May 30: Last Day of School

This week:

Homework
Math- Nickel, Penny and Dime

Chinese-Reading- How much? Lesson 20
Chinese-Writing- Page 15-16

English Homework-Reading- Did you know collectively each class reads about 400 days a month? That’s an average of 14 days of reading for each student. Let’s see if we can hit 550 days for April!!! (Reading days can be sent to me in an email at the end of the month.)

In class, we are learning:

Math- Money (quarter, dime, nickel, penny)

Language Arts- Retelling a story, Author’s Purpose (What does the author want us to learn in this story?), Connections, Trouble Shooting a Word (Review of year)

Writing- Summaries, Informational writing on a given topic

Phonics- Contractions with ‘ll, R controlled vowels (ur, er, ir)

Chinese- Review

Social/Science study- Economic choices

Spelling words:

Blue: there, their, know, no, see, sea, blue, blew, to

Yellow: girl, first, shirt, nurse, after, I’ll, I’m, it’s, she’ll, he’s

Red: soft, lift, gift, left, raft, swift, drift, loft, fiction, non-fiction

Miss BreAnn Wayman & Mrs. Rebecca Liston