April 28, 2008

We read our weekly poem, Zoo. We worked on sounding out words, putting sentences together that make sense using popcorn words. We read the story Dear Zoo and we came up with describing words (adjectives) to tell about the animals in the story.
In math your child is learning how to join two numbers to make a larger group. Your child will begin to read symbols, such as plus signs (+) and be able two find sums for problems set up vertically as well as horizontally.
A Peek at Next Week…
Theme: plants
Math: subtraction

Thank you to everyone who volunteered on our sign-up sheets at Open House.
I am looking for volunteers from the AM class to bring juice boxes and napkins for the graduation and in the PM class to bring cupcakes, juice boxes and napkins for graduation and popsicles for popsicle day, goldfish crackers for munchie day and lollipops for lollipop day. I am looking for 2 volunteers from the AM class and 1 volunteer from the PM class to help put on the Graduation Caps before the ceremony. Let me know if anyone can help. Thanks.

ABC Countdown
The ABC Countdown will begin on April 30. This is a countdown of fun activities during the last 26 days of school using the ABC’s. More information will be sent home in the near future.

Open House
I enjoyed seeing everyone at the Open House! The children have been working very hard and it shows in their beautiful work. I’m very proud of them and you should be too.

Homework
Attached you will find a piece of handwriting paper. Please have your child practice writing his/her first and last names on each line using capital letters where it is appropriate.

Important Dates
April 30 – ABC countdown begins
April 30 – Bring a stuffed animal to school
May 2 – Bring crackers for snack