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March 22, 2010
Dear Parents,
I hope you all enjoyed the weekend and the wonderful weather on Saturday. It was a wonderful way to begin the Spring season. I can hardly believe that Spring break is next week and that we are 2/3 of the way through the school year! We have done some wonderful things and have many more great things to come. First of all we will begin our new science unit this week. For the final science unit of the year instead of doing the “organisms” unit which I believe is very similar to the “two by two” unit that is done in Kindergarten we will be doing a unit on butterflies.
This unit will involve the life cycle , habitats, adaptations and comparisons to moths. We will be watching the life cycle up close and personal as we raise butterflies in our classroom and we will be planting a butterfly garden at school in which we will release the butterflies once they have reached their adult life cycle. We will begin preparing the garden for planting this week and the week we return from Spring Break. On April 8th we will have a special guest help us begin the planting process. Cisco Morris from “Gardening With Cisco” will come to North Beach and talk to Room 4 about gardening and help us begin our butterfly garden. It should be a very fun project and I know the students will really enjoy all of the activities. I will be asking for donations of plants, seeds and other items to attract buterflies and birds to our garden. Please see attatched sheet if you would like to help.
Another upcoming project is our Flat Stanley project. This is a wonderful reading/writing project that we do with NB 2nd graders. Flat Stanley is a wonderful character in a book series entitled. Flat Stanley (Of course!) He is a lovely boy who experiences an accident with a bulletin board which leaves him perfectly fine but also perfectly flat! This project involves the kids making their own “Flat Stanley or Flat Stella” writing a fictional adventure for him/her and perhaps taking them on a real adventure! The Flat Stanley project is a great project that students all over the country have been participating in for many years. There have been “Flat Stanleys” on the Great Wall of China, In the White House and one has even been a guest on the Space Shuttle. More info will come home with the students this week.
I hope you all have a wonderful week. If I have not said so lately thank you for sending me all of your wonderful children…they are all incredible!
This week in Room 4....
We are reviewing comprehension/phonics skills. I have also added some bonus words for those students who have mastered the spelling words before the week is over.
Comprehension skill: Making predictions
Phonics: Grown up O sound with OW and OA
Sight words: again, both, gone, or, want, turn, hard
This weeks spelling words 3/1:
boat
slow
show
toad
grow
mow
rope
both
again
garden
BONUS WORDS:
March
Dr. Seuss
circus
Tuesday
Wednesday
Homework this week:
- Listen to someone read, read to yourself or read to someone for at least 15 minutes daily
- Practice spelling words
- Complete math homework. Math worksheets are turned in daily.
REMINDER: Please review spelling words and phonics readers with your child. They really reinforce the spelling patterns that we are working on in class.
Practice sight words at home. Keep the sheet at home to study.
We need snack
Room 4 is out of snack. If you are able please can you send some snack for the class in with your child. Thank you.
Volunteering in Room 4
I'm always thrilled to have volunteers drop in whenever they have free time, yet it's important to know that I have volunteers for reading groups. If you can volunteer you can let me know by:
- signing up on the calendar outside of Room 4
- let me know via email or phone or in person
Reading
To help your child with their reading skills, please make sure you are reading with them daily. Please help them practice their phonics skills by listening to them read through their phonics readers that they bring home every week. These books are excellent tool in helping students strengthen their phonic skills.
Room 4 Rules
be Respectful
be Safe
be Reponsible
have fun
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