April 8-12

-->

Parents,

Wow! Words cannot express the appreciation Mrs. Liston and I feel for the love that was shown to us over the past week. Thank you for your kind words, flowers, gifts, and gift card! We truly love our students and their parents too. We feel we are the luckiest teachers in the school.

We have a field trip to Hale Center Theater this Friday, April 12^th. All students are encouraged to buy school lunch. If you would like your child to bring his/her own lunch, please let me know ASAP. We will be leaving the school at 9:05 am and will return by 2:00 pm. We are in need of 2 chaperones for each class, if you would like to go, please let me know via email. First come, first serve. Watch for permission slips to come home Monday.

Spell-a-thon Fundraiser Envelopes are due Monday (if you are participating).

We are still in need for some items to make our Chinese Dragon. If you have anything you would like to donate, please send them to school by Friday, April 12th. This is what we hope the finished product to look like: http://kmhouseindia.blogspot.com/2011/03/chinese-dragon-dance.html?m=1

Also, we are in need of a few parents who can help at home to make the props needed for our dance. If you may be able to help, please email Laurie Payne at paynelaurieck@gmail.com.

Fabric scraps: (any size, 4" x3" at smallest-so check your leftover quilt scraps)
Bright, bold colors 
Shiny fabric
Patterns on fabric ok
Medium lengths of fabric
Any long lengths of fabric (for body)

TRIM and bits of BLING:
Absolutely anything bright colored, glitzy, sparkly, shiny fringy, furry, hairy, jingly

OTHER:
pvc pipe, 3way pvc joints
Chicken wire
Newspaper (for papier mache)
Canning lids (rings and centers)

Hot glue gun glue sticks

Acryllic paint-red green yellow white, gold, silver, black

Spray paint-red, gold, silver green

This week:

Homework
Math- One more, one less; Ten more, ten less
English Homework-Reading- Continue reading for 20 minutes every night, please mark March reading days in reading folder.

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?)

Writing- Quotation marks, adding detail

Phonics- Compound Words

Chinese- Lesson 20, How much?

Social/Science study- Economic choices

Spelling Words:

Blue: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday

Yellow: sometime, someone, anyone, anything, something, inside, become, birthday, without

Red: graph, laugh, enough, cough, rough, tough, photo, graph, photograph, phone

Miss BreAnn Wayman & Mrs. Rebecca Liston