Week of April 17, 2017

The children will begin taking the yearly achievement test on Tuesday.  Talk to your child about listening and following directions.  The children have all been reviewed of specific skills and will do great!
It is important that your child do the following each day before coming to school.

• Arrive to school on time.  NO CHILD WILL BE ALLOWED INTO THE CLASSROOM ONCE THE TEST HAS BEGAN.
• Eat a good breakfast.
• Get a good night sleep.

This week the school will not have spelling words or homework.  It would be great if your child will review sight words, math facts, and read for fun.  

Ready to run! - Spring Sprint 2017

We had a great time at Spring Sprint today. The children did a wonderful job in our Grandparents Day program this morning. We have been working hard all week for this special day.It was great to see so many parents and grandparents on our campus!

Spring is such a busy time for us here at EHCS.

Week of April 10-14

Students will be working on the following:

• Identifying and decoding words with the variant vowel sound oo, ui, ew
• Reading for fluency and comprehension
• Reviewing story elements
• Continuing to read and take tests on AR books
• Writing narratives
• Learning more about space, planets, stars, etc.
• Reviewing basic addition and subtraction 
• Reviewing and correctly using parts of speech
• Practicing Math concepts
• Reading and retelling the Story of the Crucifixion
• Practicing previously learned reading and math in preparation for testing

This week's Spelling words: moon, tune, flew, blue, fruit, soup, room, soon, drew, cool, 

Bonus Words: Easter, satellite

Next Friday is Good Friday. There will be no school on April 14th and April 17th.

Don't forget to bring in your Easter eggs and goodies on Thursday, April 13th.

Spelling and Reading Tests will be on Thursday!

Achievement tests will be April 18th-21st.

Be sure your child has a good night's rest and a good breakfast every day. Be on time for school and ready to get to work. No child will be admitted into the classroom after testing begins. Tests begin at 8:00. There will be no homework during achievement testing. 

Week of April 3, 2017

Week of April 3, 2017

   This will be a fun and short week as we prepare for Spring Sprint and Grandparent's Day.  The children will work on the following skills this week:

• Identifying, decoding, and reading words with /oi/ and /oy/.
• Identifying and reading words with inflectional endings -ed and -ing
• Decode words with multi syllables
• Continue to work on reading for fluency and understanding
• Review long and short vowel sounds
• Write narratives about grandparents
• Identify the 9 planets and the constellations
• Identify even and odd numbers
• Reviewing addition facts, money, subtraction,  addition of ,addends, and word problems

Weekly Spelling Words:
WEEKLY SPELLING TEST WILL BE ON THURSDAY

 spoil, coin, join, boil, soil, joy, toy, boy, oyster, enjoy

Bonus Words:  Family    Grandparents

Weekly Notes:

• Sprint Sprint                           4-7
• Good Friday No School         4-14
• No School                               4-17
• Achievement Test                   4-18 thru 4-21
• Field Day                                4-28
• Family Chapel                         4-27

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.

Week of February 27, 2017
        The children have been very busy preparing for their African American presentation that will be held this Friday at 8:15 in the Eagle's Nest.
        This week the children will enjoy having guest coming in their class to read stories to them.
        They will be working on the following skills this week:

• Identifying words and decode words with /ar/ sounds. 
• Students will read sentences and stories with /ar/ words in them.
• Students will read stories about Frog and Toad
• Students will have phonemic drills on reversal and deletion of sounds within a word
• Read stories from the author Dr. Seuss 
• Continue to learn how to tell time by the hour and half hour
• Students will be introduce to fractions:  whole, 1/2, 1/3, and 1/4
• Continue to review addition and subtraction facts
• Word problems on lapse time, addition and subtraction
• Continue to work on reading for fluency when reading, comprehension skills, retelling and rewriting stories that they read
• Students will be introduce to irregular plurals

Weekly Spelling :  cart, barn, arm, art, yarn, harm, four, star, barn, farm  (Bonus Words:  African Americans

                                                            .CLASSROOM NOTES:

• All children will participate in the first grade African American Presentation.  Children should come to school dressed as their famous African American.  Your child should bring clothes to change in after the presentation.  The presentation will be at 8;15 in the Eagle's Nest
• Your child should read books  at home and record on their reading log in their binder.  (This log  sent home on Friday)
• There will not be a Catapult summer program this summer. 
• This is Read Across American Week.  Your child may wear the following attire:

Monday:  Pajamas or comfy clothes (no leggings please)

Tuesday:  Green Eggs and Ham Day - Wear green

Wednesday:  Wacky Wednesday -Wear clothes backward, inside out, or mismatched.

Thursday:  Cat In the Hat Day (Wear favorite hat)

Friday:  Fox in Socks Day (Wear silly or mismatched socks)

                   If your chooses not to participate they must wear uniform.