Looking Ahead:
- April 25: Dollar Dress Down Day
- April 28: End of year assessments begin
- May 22: Kindergarten Field Trip to Treehouse Children’s Museum
- May 23: Dollar Dress Down Day and Yearbook signing day
- May 26: Memorial Day- No School
- May 27: Ms. Lisa’s Kindergarten completion celebration 10:30-11:00 am in the library
- May 28: Elementary Field Day
- May 29: Elementary Talent Show
- May 30: Last day of school (free dress down day)
Comprehension strategy/skill: “Reread”/”Events: Cause and Effect”. We read several different texts to go along with our theme: “Good Citizens”
High Frequency Words (Power Words): play, has
Sound, spelling and handwriting review: e, f, g, h and introduced long /i/, (spelled i_e)
Vocabulary: citizen, respect, hauled, tidy, necessary
Science: We started our new unit on weather patterns. The anchor phenomenon for this unit is the amazing cycle of changes an arctic fox’s fur undergoes throughout the annual cycle of seasonal weather. During the introduction today, students generated observations and questions about the phenomenon and created a list of possible explanations for the phenomenon.