Week of 3/15

Last week, we celebrated Maggie's birthday!

Happy 7th Birthday Mags!

Dear Parents,

Happy Terra Nova week! We will be taking different parts of the test each day. Please follow the schedule that was sent home last week. I told the kids that for homework this week they should be in bed by 8:30 pm at the absolute latest, and that they should be eating a healthy breakfast and packing a healthy snack for recess. These little things really do make a difference. Here are a few reminders:

- Please make sure the kids have a few sharpened #2 pencils and a good eraser each day for the test.

- Today is the beginning the third and final trimester!

- Test folders will be sent home Tuesday. Please sign and return on Wednesday.

- We will still work with "The Big Trip", the long e spelling words and the sight words that were introduced last week, however we will not be testing due to the Terra Nova tests.

- There will be no homework this week! Getting to bed early should be easier this way! :)

- We will be building our leprechaun traps this week and hopefully we will catch on on Wednesday! Thanks so much for sending in the supplies!

A Peek at Our Week!

Religion
We will finish Chapter 12 "The Church Serves" and take the test together in school.

Reading
Story: "The Big Trip"
Target Skill: Compare and Contrast
Phonics Skill: Long E (ea, e, e_e, ee) and -ng, -nk words
Grammar: compound sentences
Sight Words: about, could, sure, don't, car, maybe, very, travel, really, through
Spelling Words: keep, seed, green, street, cheek, clean, read, mean, sea, heat

Math
We will start our Time unit this week. We will focus on learning the two hands of the clock and learning how to tell time to the hour and half hour.