Upcoming Events:
Spring Break — No School — March 30th- April 6th (please note we do not have school on Monday April 6th)
Morning Lesson:
This past week we were busy finishing book work and wrapping up our language arts block. Material covered in this block that we will continue to work on in our next language arts block include:
- parts of speech
- suffixes -ly, -ful, -ed, -ing
- independent/group writing
- dipthong /oi/ /oy/ and /ou/ /ow/
- punctuation
- consonant r-blends & vowel friends that together say the long /a/
- capitalization of proper nouns
- new digraphs introduced were/ck/ /gh/and /ng/ with continual review of /sh/ /ch/ /th/ and /wh/
Journal Writing & the worm bin:
After watching coconut coir expand from the addition of water. We brainstormed words to describe what they saw. Once the words were collected and written on the board, they were then given time to write in their journal. With Spring upon us, we will continue our journal writing to include our observations of nature.
Memory & Phone Numbers:
Do you remember when you used to have to remember everyone’s phone number memorized? How many numbers to do you know now? Well I have printed out a list of everyone’s phone number and starting this Friday I will be asking your children to tell me your number (mom and dad). So if your child does not already know your phone number then now is the time. If they do and you would like to expand their cache of numbers, email me grandma’s/neighbor/friend/aunt/uncle …..anyone number you would like them to memorize.
Community News:
Grandparents & Friends Day:
The children will be writing their letters to invite friends and family to visit our school in May. Please send them with addresses or email them to me.
Summer Farm Camp Opportunity
The founders of Kid’s Table and the Truck Farm Chicago have created a summer camp focused on farming. Nature’s Farm Camp is an overnight camp — 5 days 4 nights in Northwest Illinois, Orangeville to be exact. Feel free to check out their website. You may have already bumped into the brains behind this adventure: Elena Marre from Kid’s Table and Tim Magner from Truck Farm Chicago.