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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 program. We learned that good writers add details and that you can think about your five senses to find details. We read Many Luscious
Lollipops. We learned our new popcorn word ‘you’ and did rainbow writing of it. We read The Earth and I and watered our bean plants in the atrium. We made our own ‘Earth’ from paper plates and tissue paper. We were introduced to our new poem ‘Mailbox’. We did literacy workshop. We read
Fire Engines. We learned ‘part-part-whole’ as another way to look at addition.
April 18 th to 22 nd , 2016
Volume 19, Issue 32
We did the Wednesday page of our packet. 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. We detected the ‘juicy’ words in Fancy
Nancy and the Late, Late, Late Night. We sequenced the lines of our poem. We watered our bean plants and read Why Should I Recycle? in the atrium and did a nature walk outside. We did literacy workshop. We read Little Engine that
Could. We had recess. We colored, cut and hung our boxcars behind the engine to see whose estimate was the closest. The AM class had reading workshop. The PM class had library.
We started new ‘morning work’ packets. In the packet, each day they practice writing their first and last name, review writing a popcorn word and then write a short dictation sentence. We then 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. We did speedwriting of our popcorn word.
We graphed whether or not we went to the Buckeye game. We read Fancy Nancy and the Sensational
Babysitter and recorded the ‘juicy’ words in it. We read
10 Things I Can Do to Help My World and Our Class Is
Going Green! and watered our bean plants in the atrium. We identified activities that do and don’t help our earth. We watched ‘Trashy Town’. We did literacy workshop. We had recess. We estimated how long a train would be if each classmate added a boxcar to it.
The PM class had a tornado drill.
We did the Thursday page of our packet, 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. We did shared reading and brainstormed other ways to write ‘said’ to make a story more interesting. We watered our bean plants and read
The Way to the Ocean. We graphed whether we recycle.
We read a science story as we did the experiment where we added pollutants to the water to see how it affects living things. We identified activities that help and don’t help our earth. We did Literacy Workshop.
We read, highlighted the popcorn words in and illustrated our poem. We read
Harbor by Donald Crews. We graphed if we’d ever sailed a boat. We had recess. We collaborated in groups to build six different combinations of five using two colors of unifix cubes.
The  AM  class  attended  an  Earth  Day  assembly.    The  PM  class  watched  the  video  shown  at  the  morning  assembly.
We  did  the  Friday  page  of  our  packet,  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  did  shared  reading  and  graphed  whether  we’ve  ever  sailed.    We  read
Sail  Away  by  Donald  Crews.  We  watered  our  bean  plants.  We  found  the  missing  number  in  a  part-­‐part-­‐whole  and   collaborated  in  groups  to  make  all  of  the  combinations  of  six  with  unifix  cubes.  We  had  recess.  We  watched  ‘The
Lorax’  and  did  fitness.

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Books Due
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Dear Parents,
Upcoming Dates:
April 27 th – You may have seen on the OSE sign that there is a meeting. It’s a little misleading.
That meeting is actually for parents of incoming kindergartners for 2016-17. We just didn’t want there to be any confusion.
May 2 nd - Transportation Parade – assignments came home Friday – notice date change due to state testing in the building.
May 11 th – Kindergarten Program 7 p.m.- Feel free to invite friends and relatives.
Thanks to our volunteers this week: Mrs. Gilliam, Mrs. Shiomi, Mrs.
Jackson, Mrs. Harden, Mrs. Smialek, Mrs. Bonnette and Mr. Griffith.
Have a fantastic weekend!
Vianne
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