Week of March 31-April 4, 2014

Hello Room 4 families,
Spring is off to a fabulous start in room 4. Your children work so hard every day and are learning so much.

Here is what we have coming up:
Important Dates:
Monday, March 31: Art lesson; 10:00-10:45am
Wednesday, April 2: Free dress for $1. Money raised goes to Mrs. Harris' Sutter Memorial Hospital donation campaign.
Friday, April 4: Air Rock competition at Sutter Middle School; 6pm
Friday, 4/11: Art lesson; 10:15-11:00 am
April 14-18: SPRING BREAK; no school

We are still looking for a parent or parents to help with centers on the following Thursday mornings: April 10, April 24, May 1, May 22, May 29. Please let me know if you would like to help from 8:10-9:00 am on any or all of these dates. Thank you!

Language Arts

We are working away on blending, reading, and spelling words. Please continue to read to or have your child read to you for at least 20 minutes every day.

Letter/sound focus: /x/, /z/, and /w/

Writing: we will continue to work on writing how to play our favorite sports.

Math

We are continuing to work on subtraction this week. 

Science

We started a unit on plants this week. We will focus on learning about what plants need to grow, the parts of plants, and their lifecycle. We will be observing four plants to see what happens if they don't get one of the things they need (water, sunlight or soil), and the kids will be planting their own plants and writing about their growth in a journal. And of course, we will be working in our school garden and learning about plants there!

Thanks for reading, everyone. If you have any questions or concerns please email me at carrie.relles@gmail.com

Have a nice weekend.

Week of March 24-28, 2014

Happy Friday everyone!

Here is what we have going on in room 4~

Important Dates
Friday, 3/28: free dress day

Monday, 3/31: Art lesson, 10:00-10:45. We would love to have a couple parent helpers for this. Please let me know if you can help.

Friday, April 4: Air Rock competition

Friday, 4/11: Art lesson 10:15-11:00. Please let me know if you'd like to come in to help with this!

We are still looking for a parent or parents to help with centers on the following Thursday mornings: April 10, April 24, May 1, May 22, May 29. Please let me know if you would like to help from 8:10-9:00 am on any or all of these dates. Thank you!

Language Arts
This week we will finish up our "Red, White and Blue" unit and begin talking about Teamwork. If your child has any books that fit this theme please send them in! Just mark them clearly with your child's name.
Letter/sound focus: /f/, short e, /x/
We are continuing to work on blending letters and sounds to make words and to use the sounds we know to spell words.
Writing: the kids will write a paragraph this week about how to play their favorite sport.

Math
This week we will finish our chapter on addition and begin working on subtraction at the end of the week.

Thanks for reading, everyone. Please let me know if you have questions or concerns-- carrie.relles@gmail.com

Have a fantastic weekend.

Week of March 17-21, 2014

Hello Room 4 families! The kids have been working away in Room 4. They are learning so much so quickly.
Thanks to everyone for helping kids with homework nightly, and a huge thanks to those who volunteer in the classroom.

Volunteer Needed! 
We are in need of someone to help with our centers time on Thursdays starting in April until the first week in June. Centers run from 8:10 until 9:00 am. If this is something you would like to do, please let me know. You don't need to be fingerprinted, just fill out the volunteer level 1 form.

Important dates:

Monday 3/17: Spirit day--wear green (free dress)

Friday, 3/28: free dress day

Monday, 3/31: Art lesson, 10:00-10:45. We would love to have a couple parent helpers for this. Please let me know if you can help.

Friday, 4/11: Art lesson 10:15-11:00. Please let me know if you'd like to come in to help with this!

Language Arts
The kids are loving our Red, White, and Blue unit. Ask them about some of the American symbols they have learned about.
Letter/sound focus: /g/, /j/
We will continue to work on using knowledge of letter sounds to make words.
The kids have been writing a book about American symbols and are working to finish a writing piece about what they would do if they caught a leprechaun.

Math
The kids did a super job with addition stories (word problems) this week. Next week we continue to practice adding numbers to 10. My goal for them is to start memorizing some math facts with sums to 10. The more they practice math facts the more they begin to remember them and won't have to use fingers, pictures, etc to find the answers.

Thanks for reading, everyone.
Have a great weekend, and please let me know if you have questions or concerns.
carrie.relles@gmail.com