Mrs. Borden & Mrs. Jones’ Nifty Newsletter

Date: Week of April 28                              

Important Information:

Monday: Day 5 Computers

Tuesday: Day 1 Art

Wednesday: Day 2 Book Exchange (Don’t forget your book)

Thursday: Day 3 Music

Friday: Day 4 Gym (Please wear sneakers)

Thanks for the donations to the Military that have come in and if you need any more information about it, please contact us for another paper.

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Please continue to practice sight words and nonsense words often.  Our final Dibels testing is coming up at the beginning of May.

 

Our Field Trip will be May 28, 2014 and it will be to the Pioneer Tunnel.

 

Graduation

will be May 20.  DVD orders are due on May 5^th.

Coming Up Next Week:

 

Phonics- We will be working on the digraph oo like in book and tooth.  We will also review digraph th, sh, ck, and long and short vowels.

 

Math – We finished Chapter 12, Measurement and really did a wonderful job on the test!!  Topic 13 is: Sorting, Classifying, and Categorizing Data.

 

Reading – Our new story is called On the Move. We will discuss main idea. This is an informational text about transportation.  We will also be working on nouns in sentences, compound words, and writing an invitation.

 

In Kid Writing, we are working on adding details to our pictures, writing with 2 finger spaces, using punctuation, and writing a complete story about a topic.

 

We are reading the 4^th Book in the Magic Tree House series, Pirates Past Noon.  We have also started a KWL chart with information that we know, we want to know, and what we learned about pirates.