Weekly Update 4/27

Good morning! Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend! It was so fun seeing everyone at Grants Farm night. It was definitely a success!

Monday- A day and Library
Tuesday- B day
Wednesday- C day
Thursday- D day
Friday- NO LETTER DAY!

ABC Countdown
Hat Day
Icy Pop
Joke Day
Kindness Day
Lunch with your teacher

Writing- We are continuing to work on different kinds of poems.

Words their Way- New lists will be coming home today. Please check out the WTW blog to see the sorts. (This will be our LAST set of words!)

Math- 2D/plain shapes are finished and the tests looked great. Now onto our last chapter which is 3D shapes!

Science- We are working on plants and animals this week!

Reading- Keep up the great reading! 20 min. (OR MORE) each night!! :)


Upcoming Events:
Please sign up below if you are able to help out at our Long Field Day on May 14.
http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0445acad28a02-field/4977150
May 15- NO SCHOOL
May 16- Spirit Festival 
May 22- LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!

Also, in case some of you may not have heard, baby Gregston #2 is a GIRL!!!

Weekly Update 4/20

Good afternoon, I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!

Monday- D day and Library
Tuesday- A day
Wednesday- B day and Early Dismissal at 1:40
Thursday- C day
Friday- D day and Words their Way test!

ABC Countdown:
C-Camo
D- Drawing Day (Bring any drawing books that you have!)
E-Exercise Day
F- Favorite Book
G- Give a dollar, get a piece of GUM!! The money we raise will go towards our playground to purchase more balls and outside items! (They are very excited about more playground balls!)

Writing- We are working on creating different kinds of poems! 

Math- We will be finishing up our plane shapes this week and will then go into 3D shapes next.

Spelling- Words their Way test will be on Friday.

Science- We are working our way right into plants and animals.

Upcoming Events:
April 24- Grant's Farm Night at 5:30
May 27- Cardinals Game
May 16- Spirit Festival

Weekly Update 4/13

Good morning! Hope everyone had a great weekend! Thanks again for all the parents that came to the Zoo to help chaperon, it was a perfect and successful day! It was so much fun looking through the iPad pictures from their scavenger hunt too!


Monday- C day and Library
Tuesday- D day
Wednesday- A day
Thursday- B day and the first day of our ABC Countdown
Friday- C day

Math- We are continuing to work on plane shapes and will be getting into 3-D shapes next!

Science- We are finishing up our unit on Living and Non-living things. 

Words their Way- Check the blog for the sorts. The next test will be 4/24.

Writing- We are working our way through our Poetry unit and have finished our Acrostic poems!

Reading- Please continue to have your child read at least 20 minutes each night! 


Upcoming Events
Early Release- April 22 at 1:40
Grant's Farm- April 24th 5:45-9 (More information to come- yellow flyer)
Cardinals Game- May 3

Weekly Update 4/6

Good afternoon! I hope everyone enjoyed their 3 day Easter weekend!

Monday- B day and Library
Tuesday- C day
Wednesday- D day
Thursday- A day and WTW test!
Friday- FIELD TRIP TO THE ZOO!!! More information to come this week! 

Writing- We are starting our poetry unit and will start with Acrostic poems first!

Reading- Keep reading 20 minutes each night!

Spelling- Words their Way test on Thursday. Check the blog for the sorts. 

Science- We are continuing to work on living and non-living things which will tie perfectly into our Zoo field trip. 

Weekly Update 3/23

Good morning and happy SPRING! I hope everyone enjoyed their Spring Break!! 9 more weeks to go! We can do it!

Monday- A day and Library
Tuesday- B day 
Wednesday- C day
Thursday- D day
Friday- A day

Writing- Since we celebrated our realistic fiction before break, we decided to take a week or so and come up with some FANTASY fiction stories! The students are SO excited about this and it is so fun to see their imaginations soar!

Words their Way- New lists will be coming home today!

Math- We are starting our new unit on telling time to the hour and half hour. Also, if you are interested in working on some more math at home at your student's level, FrontRow is a great website for that. https://student.frontrowed.com/#login

Login- students first name and last initial
Password- liekod
*XtraMath information is coming!

Reading- Keep up the hard work! I loved seeing all of these friends who read over break too! 

Upcoming Events:
No School on 4/3

**Field Trip to the Zoo will be on April 10. Permission slips went home today! Please be sure to send those back in with $9.00 as soon as you can. Also, ALL chaperone's are welcome! 

9/15-  Baby Gregston #2 DUE!! We are beyond thrilled to welcome another bundle of joy into our lives! 

Weekly Update 3/10

Good morning and happy Tuesday! I apologize for not posting this earlier, I had a meeting first time Monday morning so that got me all mixed up!

Monday- A day and Library
Tuesday- B day
Wednesday- C day (Challenge Course)
Thursday- D day and Parent Teacher Conferences
Friday- NO LETTER DAY and 11:50 Dismissal

Writing- We are continuing to work on adding stories to our realistic series and I am SO excited with how well they are turning out!

Reading- Please continue to read 15 minutes at home! 

Spelling- We are working on contractions this week.

Math- We are continuing to work on measurement and will start time after Spring Break. 

Social Studies- We are still working on our map unit and have been drawing pictures of our room, house, street, town, state, country, and world! 

Upcoming Events:
Spring Break- 3/16-3/20- 3/23 will be an A day
4/3- No School

Weekly Update 3/2

Good morning!
I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend and didn't get snowed in! I don't know about you all but I am SO ready for spring! 

This week:

Monday- D day, Library, and wear red, white, and blue
Tuesday- A day and crazy Socks
Wednesday- B day and WACKY Wednesday
Thursday-C day and PJ Day
Friday- D day, wear green, and early release. 3Q ends!

Upcoming events:
-March 12- Spring Conferences

Math- We are finishing up graphing this week and will begin time and measurement.

Word Work- This week and next we are working on contractions!

Writing- We are continuing to work on creating our realistic fiction series books.

Social Studies- We are working on maps. 

Reading- Don't forget to continue to have your child read 15 min each night.