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Scarlet and Gray Newsletter
April 11th to 15th, 2016
Volume 19, Issue 31
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Tuesday
Monday
We wrote our ‘weekend news’. We greeted classmates, said the
pledge of allegiance, said our class promise and did calendar.
We sang our ‘Days’ and ‘Months’ songs, subitized to 1-12 dots,
read our popcorn words, did our ABC chart, sang our vowel song
and reviewed our habits of thinkers. We practiced for our
upcoming program. Our kindergartner of the week shared his/her
poster and we wrote a sentence about him/her using interactive
writing. We learned that good readers ask questions as they
read. We did shared reading and read This is a Sunflower by
Donald Crews. We learned our new popcorn word ‘an’ and did
rainbow writing of it. We did literacy workshop. We read A Plant
Grows, All About Plants, How Does a Plant Grow? and Do Animals
Live in Plants. We were introduced to our new poem ‘I Wrote a
Story’. We made a card for Mrs. Hastings for National Library
Week. We did shared reading and read Force and Motion and
The Way Things Move. We did two Time for Kids –All About
Energy and Cool Robots. We did addition using number lines.
We did a ladybug vertical addition activity. We
greeted friends, sang My Country ‘Tis of Thee,
said our class promise and did calendar. We
counted to 100 by ones and read our popcorn
words. We did our ABC charts with digraphs and
reviewed the habits of thinkers. We practiced for
our program. Our kindergartner of the week
shared a science image and we wrote a sentence
about him/her using interactive writing. We did
speedwriting of our popcorn word. We did shared
reading and answered questions from the story
such as who?, where?, when? and what? We
read How Many Seeds? and I’m a Little Seed.
We did literacy workshop. We did shared reading
and read My Car. We had recess. We made our
own dashboard and steering wheel.
Wednesday
Thursday
We used our popcorn word in our writing. We
greeted one another, sang ‘Grand Old Flag’, said
our class promise and did calendar. We counted
to 100 by fives and tens and read our popcorn
words. We did ‘Action Alphabet’ and practiced
for our program. We reviewed the habits of
thinkers. Our kindergartner of the week brought
in something for us to estimate and we wrote a
sentence about him/her using interactive writing.
We did shared reading and answered questions
from the story. We read Over in the Garden. We
sequenced the lines of our poem. We did literacy
workshop. We read School Bus by Donald Crews
and I’m Your Bus. We had recess. We used a
number line to visually see how addition yields
larger numbers and subtraction yields smaller
numbers.
We greeted classmates, sang ‘America the Beautiful’,
said our class promise and did calendar. We counted
backwards from 20, subitized ten frames and read our
popcorn words. We did our blend cards and reviewed
habits of thinkers. We practiced for our program. Our
kindergartner of the week shared something for social
studies and we wrote a sentence about him/her using
interactive writing. Then we each wrote our own
sentence about him/her. The PM class had library.
We did shared reading and answered questions about
the story. We read Flowers. We did Literacy
Workshop. We read, highlighted the popcorn words in
and illustrated our poem. We read Truck by Donald
Crews and followed simple geometric directions to
draw a truck. We had recess. We were introduced to
creating unifix cubes combinations of 3 and 4.
Friday
We practiced writing our first and last name in D’Nealian handwriting. We greeted each other, said the pledge of allegiance and our class pledge and did calendar. We counted on from three different numbers, read our popcorn words, reviewed our habits of thinkers and practiced for our program. We had Family Friday. We highlighted the popcorn words in and read ‘There Were Three’. We read Growing Up Buckeye in preparation for the Spring Game. We did shared reading and read Mighty Machines. We planted lima beans and put them in the OSE greenhouse. We had recess. We collaborated in groups to make all of the combinations of four with unifix cubes. Dear Parents,
Contact Info:
Voicemail:
760-6298
E-MAIL:
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dublinschools.net
REMINDERS:
MONDAY:
Homework Due
A DAY: Library Books
Due
FRIDAY:
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Wear Tennis
shoes for
Fitness
Book Pockets
Due
(beginning in
November)
PLEASE REMEMBER
TO STORE LIBRARY
BOOKS AND BOOK
POCKETS IN
BOOKBAGS TO
PREVENT LOSS OR
DAMAGE.
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See us at:
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Upcoming Dates:
May 2nd - Transportation Parade – assignments came home Friday – notice
date change due to state testing in the building.
May 11th – Kindergarten Program 7 p.m.- Feel free to invite friends and
relatives.
Thanks to our volunteers this week: Mrs. Smialek, Ms. Chatham, Mrs.
Nosek and Mrs. Piedra.
Have a tremendous weekend!
Go Bucks!!
Vianne