Week 31

Welcome to week thirty-one! This week’s theme is: Rock Week!

Announcements: 

Music Program: Our music program is this Thursday! The first and second graders will perform this program, together, on March 28^th at 8:45 a.m.  Please ensure that your student is on-time to school that day. In music class the first and second grade students have been practicing to perform a special musical called “Getting Down with Mama Goose.”   Parents are invited to come to our school that day to watch their students perform.  Some of the second grade students will have speaking parts.  For the program the students are asked to wear khaki bottoms and a red, yellow, or blue (primary colors) shirt, if they have them.  Students will be able to wear these non-uniform outfits for the entire day.   If your student has a speaking part, you have already received a separate email.

Help our school earn free books!  For every book you’re your child reads, between Now and April 5^th , at: http://www.wegivebooks.org/readformyschool,  We Give Books will donate a free book to our school.  Be sure to make a login and specify that you want your free books sent to Quail Run Primary School. This is a great way to practice reading at home and help our school earn free books!

Spelling Words: Check the spelling section of our blog for this week’s spelling words to practice at home.

Here is a look at what we are learning this week:

Art: Students will continue working on their student directed art projects using mediums such as collage, pastels, paper construction, and water color. We are working together as a class to earn a clay day for cleaning quickly.

ASL:  This week we will continue to study the ASL signs for animals.

Dance:  Students will continue studying the different types of movement. 

Health: Learning how to take care of our bodies.

Math: We will be learning about arrays and repeated addition.

Music: In music we will be rehearsing for “Getting Down With Mama Goose” Our performance is next week!

PE: Various games in the gym.

Reading: In reading we will be having guided reading with our leveled books, phonics lessons and fluency practice.

Science: Students will continue to study rocks.

Social Studies: Students will study regions of the United States.

Spanish: We will not have Spanish this week as we focus on ASL.

Writing:

·                     Handwriting: This week will be learning the penmanship of cursive “f”  ·                     Composition: This week we are reviewing narrative writing.  

·        Spelling: We are starting a new spelling program!  Students will have an assigned list of words that we will be tested on each Friday.  The list of words we are learning this week focuses on the short “o” sounds.  I have copied the spelling list for this week below.

1.     knock

2.     rotten

3.     clog

4.     otter

5.     doctor

6.     knot

7.     upon

8.     stock

9.     offer

10.                         not

11.                        often

12.                        hospital

13.                         toxic

14.                        of

15.                        off

Week 30

Welcome to week thirty! This week’s theme is: Welcome spring!

Announcements: 

Help our school earn free books!  For every book you’re your child reads, between Now and April 5^th , at: http://www.wegivebooks.org/readformyschool,  We Give Books will donate a free book to our school.  Be sure to make a login and specify that you want your free books sent to Quail Run Primary School. This is a great way to practice reading at home and help our school earn free books!

Music Program: In music class the first and second grade students have been practicing to perform a special musical called “Getting Down with Mama Goose.” The first and second graders will perform this program, together, on March 28^th at 8:45 a.m.  Parents are invited to come to our school that day to watch their students perform.  Some of the second grade students will have speaking parts.  If your student has a speaking part, you have already received a separate email.

Here is a look at what we are learning this week:

Art: Students will continue working on their student directed art projects using mediums such as collage, pastels, paper construction, and water color. We are working together as a class to earn a clay day for cleaning quickly.

ASL:  This week we will continue to study the ASL signs for animals.

Dance:  Students will continue studying the different types of movement. 

Health: Learning how to take care of our bodies.

Math: We will be learning about making and reading bar graphs.

Music: In music we will be rehearsing for “Getting Down With Mama Goose” Our performance is next week!

PE: Various games in the gym.

Reading: In reading we will be having guided reading with our leveled books, phonics lessons and fluency practice.

Science: Students will continue to study rocks.

Social Studies: Students will study ancient cultures.

Spanish: We will not have Spanish this week as we focus on ASL.

Writing:

·                     Handwriting: This week will be learning the penmanship of cursive “f”  ·                     Composition: This week we are talking about real world examples of persuasion such as advertisements.  We will be using the ideas we gain by looking at advertisements to make our own advertisements.

·        Spelling: We are starting a new spelling program!  Students will have an assigned list of words that we will be tested on each Friday.  The list of words we are learning this week focuses on the short “i” sounds.  I have copied the spelling list for this week below.

1.     grip

2.     grin

3.     knit

4.     thick

5.     slid

6.     winter

7.     little

8.     swim

9.     tickle

10.   flip

11.   trip

12.   ship

13.   wicked

14.  shrink

15.   subtraction

Week 29

Welcome to week twenty-nine! This week’s theme is: P is for Pizza, Popcorn and Pi

Announcements: 

 

In music class the first and second grade students have been practicing to perform a special musical called “Getting Down with Mama Goose.” The first and second graders will perform this program, together, on March 28^th at 8:45 a.m.  Parents are invited to come to our school that day to watch their students perform.  Some of the second grade students will have speaking parts.  If your student has a speaking part you will receive a separate email.  

Scholastic Book Order were sent home today.  They need to be returned by  Monday, March 18th if you wish to order anything for your child.

Our class book has been submitted to Studentreasures publishing company to get published!  I can no longer accept parent orders for the book.  However, Studentreasures will open up an additional ordering period after the first round of books are published and sent to our class.

Here is a look at what we are learning this week:

Art: Students will continue working on their student directed art projects using mediums such as collage, pastels, paper construction, and water color. We are working together as a class to earn a clay day for cleaning quickly.

ASL:  This week we will learn the ASL signs for the animals we learned in Spanish over the past week.

Dance:  Students will continue studying the different types of movement. 

Health: Learning about the W.H.O. definitions of health.

Math: We will be learning about pictographs.

Music: In music we will be rehearsing for “Getting Down With Mama Goose”

PE: Various games in the gym.

Reading: In reading we will be having guided reading with our leveled books, phonics lessons and fluency practice.

Science: Students will continue to study rocks.

Social Studies: Students will study regions.

Spanish: We will not have Spanish this week as we focus on  ASL.

Writing:

·     Handwriting: This week will be learning the penmanship of cursive “l,f”

·    Composition: This week we are going to write a special persuasive letter to a St. Patrick’s Day Leprechaun to try and convince him to give us some of his gold.  If our letters are persuasive our class might receive a special visit from a leprechaun.

·        Spelling: We are starting a new spelling program!  Students will have an assigned list of words that we will be tested on each Friday.  The list of words we are learning this week focuses on the short “e” sounds.  I have copied the spelling list for this week below.

1.     best

2.     resting

3.     dress

4.     mess

5.     press

6.     kept

7.     crept

8.     cent

9.     sent

10.   when

11.   bend

12.    tent

13.    address

14.     umbrella

15.    leprechaun