Ahhh! We’ve finished another week and I can’t take it. 5 more weeks of school until this school year is over. Goodness, I do not want to say goodbye to your little ones. We’ll for sure make the most of these next few weeks left together. Right now we’re working on letters to each of our classmates to put in a memory book. I’m letting the kids choose where they want to sit every day. I told them as long as they can handle sitting next to their friends without getting (too J) distracted, then they can continue to pick their seats every day. So far, they’ve been doing great with it and have been working pretty hard and staying on task, while also enjoying time with new friends at their table every day.
*REMINDERS*
SUMMER BIRTHDAYS: I am planning on celebrating all the June birthdays in April and the July birthdays in May. Here’s your child’s birthday celebration day. If you want to bring a snack in please let me know in advance, however, the weather is so lovely, that extra recess would be preferable. The kids LOVE going outside!
Cooper S.- April 28
Ryder- May 2
Zoe- May 4
Rahman- May 9
Gavin- May 16
Tristan- May 18
Mateo- May 22
END OF YEAR: If you’re child will be gone at any point this last month of school, PLEASE let me know in advance. I have a lot of supplies and stuff I want to send back home with them, along with their writing journals and such. Whatever school supplies we didn’t use this year that your child brought, I will send back home with your child at the end of the school year so they can use them next year.
LETTER: I sent home a paper for you last week to write a special end of the year note to your kid. Please fill it out and return to me no later than Monday May 15. I will add it to their first grade memory books. If you need another sheet, let me know.
Thanks for sharing your wonderful child with me. Have a lovely weekend.
Sincerely,
Ms. Sandberg
Here’s What We’re Learning Next Week
Reading
- Comprehension
- Genre: Expository, Fiction
- Strategy: reread
- Skill: Make and confirm predictions
- High-Frequency Words
- been, before, gone, searching
- Oral Vocabulary
- dull, feature, habit, swift, understand, clues, invisible
- Fluency
- Repeated Reading: Prosody
- Phonemic Awareness
- Rhyme, Phoneme categorization, Phoneme blending/segmentation
- Phonics
- open and closed syllables
- Grammar:
- Using I and Me
- Capitalizing I
- We are writing letters to our classmates
- Spelling words:
- Phonics words: jumping, looking, waiting, stopping, running, planning
- Challenge words: been, before, gone, searching
- Extra Challenge Vocabulary: dull, feature, habit, swift, understand
- In the last month of school we will review concepts learned this year, and will focus on challenging kids through some extra higher skills, building on what we’ve learned all year. Especially with addition and subtraction.
- MOBY MATH or any of the Math IXL skills are appropriate for the kids to do for the remainder of the school year.