Good Thursday morning to everyone!  Hope you all enjoyed a great long weekend with family and friends!  Thank you Jessica Fisher for being our Easter room mom and thank you to all who helped in any way!  I cannot believe school is almost over.  It makes me sad but so proud at the same time.  Our kiddos are so amazing!!!!

Our CHAMPS assembly will be next Friday the 28th.  The word we are presenting is “RESPECT”.  The kids are helping me come up with some fun and exciting ways to teach our other friends about respect.  It’s going to be cute!

Spelling words for the next two weeks are: way, find, use, may water, long, little, very, after, words.  This is a good time to remind kids that they can connect words to other words like may, way, day, today, say, etc…

Math:  We are working on double digit addition and subtraction without re-grouping.  We continue looping back and revisiting all concepts taught so far.  Please keep working on skip counting with money and time to hour and half hour.  This always seems to be challenging.

Phonics:  We are reviewing all concepts taught this year.  Long and short vowels and vowel teams are still challenging for some so I will be placing a lot of review material in stations.

Writing:  This is the time of year that expectations become a little deeper and students begin to see and really work on the writing process.  Revising and editing are challenging because when they finish a story they want to just be done!  They must go back and revisit their paper to check for punctuation, misspelled words, capitalization, left out words, etc…  We expect them, at this point, to have a beg/mid/end to their stories, capitals at the beginning of sentences, punctuation in correct places, and use of imagination instead of just writing about known things.

Science/Social Studies:  We are learning about pond life and life cycles.  If your kiddos haven’t told you yet, we have a FROG!!!!  We are learning how his needs have changed and what we need to do to help him survive until we let him go.

Hope everyone has a great week and I can’t wait to see you at the CHAMPS assembly next week April 28th.