April 4th Newsletter

Upcoming Dates

Saturday, April 5th - First Communion Retreat 9:30 a.m. - noon
Thursday, April 17th - Egg Decorating / Easter Egg Hunt
Friday, April 18th - No School - Good Friday
Monday, April 21st - NO School - Easter Monday

This Week in Class:

Math - continued learning about 3 digit numbers; counting patters to 1000, ordering greatest to least and least to greatest, comparing; and rounding to the nearest hundred.

Reading - grammer: contractions (i.e. can't, isn't, they'll, she's); comprehension skill: main idea; ex pattern (extra, exercise /ks/ sound); prefixes un-, dis-, and re- (unlock, dishonest, redo)

Health - Began learning about feelings: how to manage feelings and stress.

Science - began learning about nutrition, healthy foods, and digestion

Handwriting - continued working on capital letters

Social Studies - Continued learning about our nation past and present; discussed the first americans and early settlers

Spelling - words for next week:  more vowel sound with r 

learn    first     turn

hurt     her      were

heard   bird     girl

turtle   burn    person

*words are on www.spellingcity.com/ellerbrock

Pop Tabs

Continue to bring in pop tabs!! We are currently in 3rd place! 

Book it!

We have finished Book It!  The kids did a great job reading and I have seen a tremendous improvement not only in their reading ability, but also in their comprehension ability.  Please encourage your child to keep reading.  This is so important!

Pictures

Next week we will be constructing personal time lines in class to show important events that have happened in our life.  The students need to begin looking for pictures of events.  Please make sure the students know what they are and when they took place.  Perhaps labeling them on the back will be helpful.  These pictures will be returned to you.  Examples to use are: birth; first day of school, birth of younger siblings, and anything else you can think of.  Please send in pictures by Wednesday, April 9th!!