week of April 7, 2014

Mrs. Borden & Mrs. Jones’ Nifty Newsletter

Date: Week of April 7                                

Important Information:

Monday Day 1 Art.

Tuesday Day 2 Library (Don’t forget your book)

Wednesday Day 3 Music

Thursday Day 4 Gym (Don’t forget sneakers)

Friday Day 5 Computers

Coming Up Next Week:

Phonics- Congratulations, we have finished all of our letters of the alphabet and we will be learning Phonics rules!  Our rule is: when a vowel is not followed by a consonant, the vowel is long and code it with a macron.  We will also be working on Digraph ck like at the end of Duck.  A digraph is: 2 letters that come together to make 1 sound.

 

*Save the date: The Wedding of Q and U is used to celebrate the combination qu.  The wedding will be on Friday, April 11, 2014.  Formal invitation to follow. *

 

Math – We will be finishing work on Topic 11, Decomposing Numbers 11 to 19.  We will then start Topic 12, Measurement.

 

Reading – Our new story is called Mayday, Mayday. We will discuss cause and effect. This is an informational text.  We will also be working on asking questions, quotations marks, and using I and me.

 

 

 

Thank you for all of your donations for our PTO auction basket. The theme of our basket is car care. The auction is April 12 (shop and drop) and April 13 (auction). Thank you!

 

For the Field Trip:  If you are interested in chaperoning the Field Trip, please send in a note as soon as possible.  Also, please make sure that you have fulfilled your PTO requirements that are necessary to be a chaperone for a Field Trip.

 

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

 

Report cards came home.   Please sign and return as soon as possible and contact us with any questions or concerns.  Thank you!