Last week was a fun week. We had our field trip on Wednesday, which was really fun. It was perfect because there were not too many people there and the kids were able to explore a lot. We also enjoyed the My Body lab. It was a personal class just for us where students learned about their bones, the heart, and some digestion. Tuesday was also a kind of fun day. We did some St. Patrick’s Day activities and learned about the real St. Patrick. We also wrote a story about a leprechaun together, the students are going to illustrate our story now. We ended Tuesday with our Writers celebration. There was also some learning going on this week too=)

Notes

·        Next week is our sight words test, please practice!

·        Don’t forget to send back book bags on Thursday.

·        There is no school on Friday.

·        We are holding a toy drive for children at Doernbecher’s Hospital. Thank you to everyone who has already donated!

·        We have a preview night for new students if you know anyone who is interested in attending next year.

*Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Warner will be taking 3-4 students with them to Doernbeckers hospital to drop of the toys they have raised. She will be picking students based on a story or paper they write. If your child would like to enter the contest to see if they can go, the writing should answer “If you could spend one day with a child from Doernbecher’s, what would you like to do with them?”

Reading-

Next week we will be doing a lot of review for our sight words and unit test, all on Thursday!

Math-

Last week we began our Measuring unit. The students are really enjoying it, and catching on pretty quickly. One hard concept for them to understand is taller and longer. They sometimes switch the meanings. K.MD.A

Writing-

This week we began our unit on persuasive writing. On Friday I taught the kids how to write poster about something they feel strongly about. They had fun with this! So if your child comes home wanting to make posters to hang around the house you will know why=)

Bible-

We have had so much fun this week in Bible. Every day until Easter we open one Easter egg to help us learn about the Easter story. Here is what we have done so far.

Day 1- There was a leaf in the egg to show how people laid down palm leafs for Jesus as he walked into the city.

Day 2- Our egg had bread in it to represent the last supper.

Day 3- We opened an egg with money in it, and talked about how Judas, his disciple, had betrayed Jesus for money. But then afterwards how bad Judas felt.