Week of March 27, 2017

      The next few weeks will be very busy.  We will be practicing for Grandparent's Day and reviewing and learning new skills as we prepare for the yearly achievement test. This week we will be working on the following skills:

• Identifying, decoding, and reading words with /ou/ and /ow/
• Reviewing long and short vowels
• Decoding and reading multi-syllable words
• Continue to review and learn new vocabulary words
• Write narratives about the moon and the sun
• Retell and rewrite stories in sequence. 
• Continue to work on reading for fluency and comprehension
• Identifying and making a whole, 1/2,  1/3, and 1/4
• Identify even and odd numbers
• Continue to work on addition and subtraction facts
• Continue to work on addition/subtraction word problems
• Identify the sun and its function in the solar system.
• Identify what the duties of an astronaut
• Identify the moon and the moon phases.

Weekly Spelling Words:

cow, town, mouse, tow, how,out, mouth, now, shout, couch

Bonus Words:  Solar System

Dates to Remember:

•  April 7th         Grandparent's Day/Spring Sprint
•  April 14th       Good Friday /School Holiday
• April 17th        No/School
• April 18-21      Elementary School Achievement Test

Week of March 20-24

We have gotten back into the swing of things in our classrooms. Our first week of the 4th term has started off well. The children have enjoyed sharing their adventures of Spring Break and having some St.Patrick's Day fun.

This week we will cover the following:

• nonfiction biographical stories of great inventors
• reading for comprehension and fluency
• ask and answer and sequence reading strategies
• prefixes 
• abbreviations
• writing with adjectives that describe
• identifying and decoding words with or, ore, and oar
• basic addition and subtraction
• solving addition and subtraction word problems
• counting sets of mixed coins to $1
• weather
• signs of spring

This week's Spelling Words: born, corn, core, more, roar, soar, torn, worn, store, short

Bonus words: forecast, quarter

Bible and Spelling tests will be given on Thursday this week due to our field trip on Friday!

On Wednesday (3/22) we will have a special visit from meteorologist Lisa Spencer of Channel 4 News. 

On Friday (3/24) we have our field trip to the Discovery Center in Murfreesboro. Parents are welcome to join us there. You will pay admission at the center. We will leave school promptly at 8:15 am and should return around 1:30 pm. Students need to wear an ezell tshirt, jeans, tennis shoes and appropriate outer wear(if needed). All students must bring a sack lunch. We will be eating at picnic tables at the Discovery Center. Please send utensils and napkins with your child's lunch. Disposable bags please-no lunch boxes.

Spring Spring will be on April, 7th. Please be looking for information about this fun event/fundraiser.

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Week of 3-13-17 

          Hope everyone had a fun and safe break. This will be a busy week as the children learn and review the following skills.

• Identify, decode, and read words with /ir/, /er/, /ur/
• Read stories with words with /ir/, /er/, /ur/ :  
• Student will write several narratives about weather and Saint Patrick's Day
• Continue to work on reading for comprehension and fluency.
• Students will identify words with the inflectional ending-er
• Phonological awareness generate rhymes
• Identify coins and count money up to $1.00
• Continue review addition and subtraction facts
• Continue to work addition/subtraction/ word problems
• Continue to learn about lapse time when working word problems
• Identify diffference storms and how to be safe in storms
• Identify the Ten Commandments
• Read stories and do fun activities  about St. Patrick's Day

                                    Weekly Spelling Words

germ      her      dirt      bird     fur     shirt     fern     first     turn     church

Bonus Words:  Tornado     Hurricane

                                       Weekly News

• Cookie dough pick up on Tuesday, March 14th
• All Students should wear green on March 17th for Saint Patrick's Day.
• All students should bring something green to eat on March 17th.  The children will have Tasting of the Green.