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.