Week of April 13th

Welcome back!

We started a new unit: Amazing Creatures

Reading: We read a informational piece called Beetles. We asked and answered many questions about beetles. We will also read The ant and the grasshopper, The elephant and the bees, and Insects hide and seek. A lot of stories about different creatures!

Writing: We will write questions and answers about creatures. We will focus when to use a question mark and when to use a period. Is all about punctuation this week.

Letters of the week: Gg, Ww

Sight word focus: he, she

Word family focus: -ag (bag, drag, nag, flag, etc)

Spelling: he, she, tag. rag, nag, wag, bag, insects

Math: We will explore ones, tens and hundreds. We will explore function machines. We will explore the $1 bill. We will review clocks to the nearest hour. We will continue practice counting by 1’s, 2’s, 5’s, 10’s to 100.

Science: We will discuss the difference between living and non-living things. We will review plants needs and parts.

Social Studies:We will discuss ways to help save the Earth. Earth day is around the corner. We will discuss the 3 R’s (recycle, reuse and reduce).

Announcements:

  • Late start is cancelled for Wednesday, April 15th. Students need to report to school at 8:35 as usual
  • Our school is starting an empty bottle and can collection as a part of our keep the earth clean. Any money collected for the cans or bottles will be used to plant flowers in front of Howard.
  •  We will be going on the field trip Monday, April 20, 2015 to the Detroit Zoo. Field trip permission slip coming home this week. Please have money ($5.50) and slip signed by Wednesday, April 15th.  If you choose to join us on the trip as a chaperone, please make sure you complete proper paperwork in the office. There will be one bus for both classes. Any chaperones will be asked to follow in their individual cars. Chaperones need to pay as well in advance. Sorry no chaperones on the bus.
  • The PTA is conducting the Spring Fling dance on Friday. If you would like to participate the cost is $5.00.

Thanks,

Ms. Mohamed

 

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