It's hard to believe that it's our last week of school! I've enjoyed teaching your children this year and want to thank you for all of your generosity and support. Remember that our plays and end of the year party will be on Tuesday from 11:00  - 12:00. It is a minimum day, so dismissal is at 12:00. Thanks for a great year and enjoy your summer!

- Mrs. Frakes

This week is our last full week of school. There is no homework or sharing this week. We are celebrating with special days all week: Monday - Hat Day, Tuesday - Career Day, Wednesday - Field Day, Thursday - Disney Day, and Friday - Dapper Day. All special dress days are optional. For field day on Wednesday, please make sure your child wears good shoes for running. Finally, please help your child practice their play lines this week. Make sure they practice when to speak, and also speaking loudly and clearly. Thank you!

We thank you for coming to our Open House and hope you enjoyed seeing all of the students' hard work! This week we are continuing to learn about animals and practice reading our plays. We also continue to read stories and work on shapes, addition, and subtraction. On Wednesday morning, we will attend a chorus assembly. Have a great week!

This week we are reviewing sight words and reading our small group plays. Please have your child practice their lines at home and practice when to say them (which sentence comes before). We are also excited to see if our caterpillars will hatch! We hope to see you at Art Night and Open House on Thursday. Art Night begins at 6:00 and Open House begins at 6:30. The students have been working hard and I know will enjoy showing you their many projects. Please remember that Friday is a minimum day and pick up is at 12:00.

This week we will continue to work on -ing words and long and short vowels. We will also continue to learn about animals, solid shapes, and position words. For homework this week, please help your child read and memorize their play part sent home and practice their Friday sharing. Thank you to for all of the wonderful gifts and cards for teacher appreciation...your thoughtfulness really made my week! Next week is Open House and we are excited to show you all of our creativity and hard work!

Thank you to all of our volunteers and I hope you got to come to the volunteer flag ceremony last Friday. This week we will work on "-ing" words, 3-D solid shapes, and learn more about American symbols and animals. We look forward to having breakfast with our moms or special someone this Friday morning right after flag ceremony. We hope to picnic at the park, but will have it in our classroom if it is raining. This is our last week of regular homework packets. Starting this week, students will have sharing every Friday. A topic paper to fill out will go home in the folder every Monday. Beginning next week, they will also have some reading practice and, if needed, anything extra they may need to either finish from the previous week or practice further (for example, extra practice in subtraction or writing numbers). 

This week we will work on "wh" words, the sight word "play," and read more fairy tales. We will learn more about animals with a focus this week on insects. We hope all of our wonderful volunteers will join us on Friday morning at the Volunteer Appreciation ceremony. We will also go see the Dunk Squad do basketball tricks afterward at a special school assembly. Next Friday, May 10th, we hope to see all the moms (or special someone) at our Mother's Day Picnic from 9am to 10am. Bring a blanket and breakfast treat to enjoy with your child! We also say goodbye to our wonderful student teacher, Ms. Smith, this Friday. Finally, students will not bring books home anymore. Next week will be our last homework packet and instead we will work on reading a play and doing weekly sharing for the remainder of the year. 

This week we will work on the -ck ending sound and the sight word, "said." We will also work on long and short vowel sounds, rhymes, and retelling stories. We will read fairy tales, learn about Earth Day, and begin a new unit on Animals. Remember that there is no school on Wednesday in rememberance of the Armenian genocide. Also, families are welcome to come to Culture Night on Friday evening. 

This week we will work on the "ch" sound and the sight words "give" and "little." Remember to have your child bring in their word rings. We will read poems and fairy tales and practice identifying story elements and retelling. In science, we continue to learn about Spring, plants, and Earth's resources. Thursday is Jump Rope for Heart. We will practice jump roping. Wear good jumping shoes! 

This week we will focus on the "sh" sound and the sight words "in" and "out." We will continue to work on subtraction, rhymes, and reading. We also continue to learn about Spring, plants, and Earth's resources. We are so excited to see some of our seeds sprouting! Please continue to read and practice word rings with your child.