Week of March 11, 2019

This will be a fun and exciting week as we prepare for Spring Break and St. Patrick's Day.  However, the children will be introduce to several new skills in reading and math.  Therefore, continue to talk to your child about listening and following directions within the classroom as well as the entire school.
The children will work on the following skills:

• Identify, decode, and read words with variant vowel sounds
• Listening skills as the children listen and answer comprehension skills "The Cat's Bell"
• Review high frequency words: answer, brought, busy, door, enough, eyes, emergency demand.
• Read and discuss sequence in the story "Click, Clack, Moon, Cow, that Type" and "March on!"
• Read and discuss about Leprechauns and Ireland
• Phonemic Awareness Segmentation drills
• Discuss the moon and the moon phases
• Review addition/subtraction facts
• Identify the missing addend within an addition problem
• Solve addition and subtraction word problem
• Read and discuss the weekly Bible story "Moses and the Ten Commandments

WEEKLY SPELLING WORDS

moon, tune, flew, blue, fruit, rule, school, cube, too view

Bonus Words:  Leprechaun - Ireland

The children will celebrate Saint Patrick's Day on Friday.  They will be Tasting of the Green.  Your child brought home Friday what they will need to bring to school by Friday.  The children will do fun activities and view a video about Saint Patrick's Day.

• Re-Enrollment needs to be complete by    March 15, 2019
• Tasting of the Green                                   March 15, 2019            
• Spring Break                                               March 18-22nd
• Lower School Spring Picture                      April 2, 2019
• Spring Sprint and Family Picnic                 April 5, 2019
• Achievement Test                                        April 9th -12th