Week of April 22-26, 2013

Here's what's happening in Room 4:

important dates:
Tuesday, April 23-Wednesday, May 8: STAR testing for grades 2-6 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. We will be changing our schedule slightly so we won't disturb test-takers. We will not have recess until 10am on those days. Also, all parent volunteers will need to sign in at the front office and then come through the side kinder gate. The office has a list of our volunteers and during testing times only those on the list will be able to come in. Thanks for your understanding with this.

Friday, April 26: Fairytale Town field trip. We will leave on the bus at about 9:30 and return at about 12. Please send a lunch with your child that day. We will be eating at the park. Also, please send $2.25 for admission to school by Thursday if you haven't already done so.

Friday, May 10: Mother's Day Tea in Room 4, 12-1. Moms, please send in your RSVPs!

Monday, May 27: NO SCHOOL, Memorial Day

Wednesday, May 29: Open House, 6:15-7:30pm

Language Arts
This week we will wrap up our Teamwork unit. We will focus on the sounds of /kw/ (q), /v/, and /y/. We will continue to blend, read, and write words and sentences using all of the previously introduced sounds and letters.
The kids will begin writing a narrative about the busy life of bees.

Math
This week we will continue to practice addition skills. We are working on fact families will addends up to 10. A fact family is all of the possible ways to make a number. So, the fact family for 4 is 0+4, 1+3, 2+2, 3+1, and 4+0.

Social Studies
This week we finish our unit on work people do. We will be talking about jobs today and comparing them with similar jobs from long ago.

I'd like to give a big THANK YOU to the parents who came with us on the Trader Joe's field trip this week and to Sarah Z'berg for coordinating with Fred, the store manager. We had a great time on the trip, and the kids seemed to love seeing the back of the store and learning what goes on back there. Field trips would not be possible without so much parent help!!

Have a great weekend, everyone! Please email me at carrie-relles@scusd.edu or carrie.relles@gmail.com if you have any questions or concerns.