Happy Spring!

So sorry this is a day late – and this week is a short week! Remember the kids do not have school on Friday, March 25^th. Here is what my friends will be doing this week while I am gone!

In Literacy we will be talking about our country, the great USA! We will be reading quite a few informational texts that include “Ana Goes to Washington, D. C.”, “The Best of the West”, “See our Country”, and in our crabby books “Pack a Bag”. During guided reading your child will read either “See This” or “Places to See”. We will be learning about the letters y and z and our new words are “this” and “what”. Our vocabulary words are country, travel, careful, purpose, and connect. We will continue to blend and listen for certain sounds as well as change sounds to make new words!

In math we will be making patterns and looking at shapes closely to see how they change as we move them around. We will also be representing teen numbers with equations, manipulatives and our fingers.

In writing last week we learned about the writing trait "voice" and this week we will be focusing on how to use it in our writing! I just know that my friends are going to love learning about font size, bold letters, dialogue, speech bubbles, and voice through punctuation!  

Also last week I am sure that you heard that some leprechauns were in our classroom! I heard it was a lot of fun and I am bummed that I missed it, but Ms. Bailey filled me in and took lots of pictures so I could see what happened on St. Patrick’s Day. I heard a leprechaun even visited my friends and took a picture with them! The kids are still trying to catch those sneaky little leprechauns though and are being extra quiet while they are working to try and catch them, hopefully this continues while I am gone and if those leprechauns are still around I sure hope they catch one! Here is the video from the pictures taken on St. Patrick’s Day!