News From the Jungle

Hope you all are enjoying your snow day!

We will take our math test and spelling test on Monday!

The “Art to Remember” order forms came home yesterday. If you would like to purchase some merchandise with your child’s artwork on it, please use the form, fill it out completely, include payment, and return to school by March 13th.

Please continue to do NWEA practice with your child over the next few months. Not only is it good practice for the test, but these are skills that they will need to know for First grade. This website can help reinforce skills we are learning each day at school. Please find the Prepdog link below:

https://www.prepdog.org/

PLEASE PUT YOUR CHILD ON READING EGGS AND MATH SEEDS EACH NIGHT!!!! This is a great way to supplement and support their learning!

If you misplaced your child’s login and need the information again, please email me at dimitrm@dearbornschools.org

I have added in the dates for the math and spelling tests for the rest of the year. We are going to end our subtraction quizzes with -7 and complete all of our spellings tests by May 18th. The following week will be used as a NWEA review before the last round of testing.

Upcoming Events

3/5 – 3/9 Scholastic Book Fair

3/7 Book Fair Night 3:35 – 7:00

3/9 +9 Math Facts Quiz

3/9 Spelling Test: with, play, has, be, hot, not, dot, got, shot, spot

3/14 Late Start 9:35am arrival

3/15 – 3/16 Haigh School Store

3/16 +10 Math Facts Quiz

3/16 Spelling Test: yes, by, want, this, bug, hug, mug, tug, slug, shrug

3/19 – 3/22 Popcorn Sales (delivery on Friday 3/23)

3/22 Rainforest Live Assembly (Evening shows will be available to the public for $5 per person 5:30 – 6:30 and 6:30 – 7:30)

3/23  -0 Math Facts Quiz

3/23 Spelling Test: that, did, but, had, bad, dad, mad, sad, pad, glad

3/29 PBIS Celebration (board games and puzzles)

3/29 -1 Math Facts Quiz

3/29 Spelling Test: did, what, mom, red, fed, wed, led, bed, sled, sped

3/30 – 4/8 NO SCHOOL!!! SPRING BREAK!!!

4/13 -2 Math Facts Quiz

4/13 Spelling Test: where, out, now, sip, lip, dip, slip, ship, chip, grip

4/20 -3 Math Facts Quiz

4/20 Spelling Test: little, have, us, dog, log, jog, hog, blog, frog, clog

4/27 -4 Math Facts Quiz

4/27 Spelling Test: they, come, his, good, jam, yam, ram, clam, slam, swam

5/4 -5 Math Facts Quiz

5/4 Spelling Test: jump, down, her, eat, tag, wag, bag, rag, flag, brag

5/11 -6 Math Facts Quiz

5/11 Spelling Test: first, next, last, will, grin, crab, clip, shark, twig, flat

5/18 -7 Math Facts Quiz (This is the last Math Quiz!)

5/18 Spelling Test: king, sing, wing, ring, ding, sting, thing, bring, swing, spring (This is the last spelling test!)

Agenda for the Week

Spelling Words for our next spelling test on 3/9: with, play, has, be, hot, not, dot, got, shot,

Plus a bonus word which will be one of the following words: spot, slot, tot, lot

The purpose of the bonus word is to assess whether the children understand the word family pattern of each word ending in the same two letters -ot.

These words will be in the homework which will come home on Monday!

Reading and Writing: This week we really worked hard on sight words we did not know and letter blends and digraphs such as th, sh, ch, wh, ph, ar, er.

Here are some videos which support the learning we did in class:

Math: The children will take their +8 math test on Monday! Next week, we will focus on learning +9 math facts. Our test will be on Friday, February  16th.

The scope of our math curriculum for the rest of the year will be addition, subtraction, and greater than or less than concepts.

This week we focused together in small groups on adding on a number line up to 30!

Here are some addition, subtraction, and greater than/less than videos to support your child’s learning:

Here are some addition videos:

Science: We are concluding our unit on polar animals and their habitat. It was an exciting time of learning for the children!

Social Studies: We continue to learn about maps, globes, and our community.

Housekeeping Items:

Spelling booklets: Please be sure to return these promptly on Tuesday!

Snack Time

**** Due to a peanut allergy in our room, please do not send in any snacks that contain nuts.*****

Folders

Please make sure to empty the green folders each night! It is very difficult and time consuming to locate homework or important notes when the folder is full of papers from the day before. Remember to initial the communication log and feel free to add any notes to me!