Mrs. Spears and Mrs. Metz-Nicholson Kindergarten Week of March 22-26, 2021 Spring is in the air! The scholars continue to show academic progress. They are becoming excellent readers and writers. Keep reading nightly to enhance fluency and comprehension. Complete weekly homework. Focus and emphasize Zoom rules and completing quality work. Upcoming Events March 10th-March 23rd Virtual Book Fair March 23rd- Third Quarter Ends March 24th- Fourth Quarter Begins Animal Habitat Project- More information to come March 26th- Materials and Supplies Pick up-12:00-6:00 pm Academics ELA- Phonemic Segmentation-CVC words, Main idea, Comprehension, Nonsense Words, Blends, Digraphs, Vowels and Rhyming Words Story - Apple Pie 4th of July Sight Words: All introduced sight words should be written in the ABC book. Math - Unit 12 - Two Dimensional (2D) and Three Dimensional (3D) Shapes Science - Animal Habitats Penmanship - We will continue practicing lowercase and uppercase letters Scholars should read 20 minutes nightly on Raz-Kids Mrs Spears - cell number (980) 428-3158/ work email [email protected] Mrs. Metz-Nicholson - cell number (980) 254-8377/ work email [email protected] If you have an emergency, question or concern during instructional time, please text Mrs. Metz-Nicholson. Weekday Schedule (Monday-Friday) Academics for the Week Week of March 22-26, 2021 9:30-9:40 am Morning Meeting 9:40-10:10 am ELA Block 10:10-11:00 am ELA Small Group & Learning Lab 11:00-11:30 am Math Block 11:30 am-12:00 pm Math Small Group & Learning Lab 12:00-12:30 pm Science/Social Studies 12:30-1:00 pm Lunch 1:00-2:00 Creative Arts 2:00 Dismissal Creative Arts Schedule: Monday-Art-1:00-2:00 pm Tuesday-Spanish-9:30 am 1:00-2:00 Violin Wednesday-P.E.-1:00-2:00 pm Thursday-Mindfulness-1:30-2:00 pm Scholars must not use the chat or additional screens during instructional time. If a scholar continues to chat and/or use other sites, the scholar will be removed from the session and will not be able to return to the Zoom meeting until the next learning session. Thank you for your support with this matter! Thank you for your continued support ! First Grade Newsletter: March 22-26, 2021 Most Wonderful Monday First Grade Families! Hoping you all had a wonderful weekend. We have a basketball family, so most of my time was watching the excitementGreeti of the NCAA Basketball Tournament. We continue our own excitement with the March Madness Reading Challenge! Your scholars are doing some major reading! We are down to our Elite Eight readers! We are excited to see who will take the honor of Reading Challenge champion. Our school’s 2nd and final Book Fair is taking place now! The virtual fair ends Tuesday, March 23rd! 25% of all sales go toward school supplies and materials. Please be sure to grab some books for your scholars, friends and loved ones. Anyone can participate so feel free to share with your village. We will use the same spelling words this week. We only had 4 days of school last week and were unable to take our test. We will have our final PICK-UP day for families, Friday, March 26th. Times will be posted on Class Dojo. You will receive any necessary materials and your scholar’s report card. Thank you for your continued partnership and support! Please continue to contact us with any questions and or concerns. Have a great week! ~Mrs. Ivory and Mr. Cunningham MATH ELA We will finish work with Topic 5- Work with Addition and STEM We continue work with Subtraction Equations, this week. Scholars will take an end of Scholars have been our anchor text in Unit topic assessment on Friday. Please be sure your scholar knows learning about sound 4, “Arbor Day Square”. how to access Savvas on their device. We will also pull small and how it travels. Scholars are groups in math, based on the mid-year assessment data. They’ve also explored understanding *Reminder- The Savvas app has great enrichment and different types of benchmark vocabulary communication, like practice available to each scholar. as well as who is telling echolocation, used by the story. Scholars are dolphins. This week, Creative Arts using the text and Key Vocabulary scholars will use hands illustrations to identify Addends, related fact, fact family, difference, left, in all, Scholar TV- We will finish up all work with Scholar TV, this week. You on activities to further the narrator and key whole, strategies, number line can see the episodes on our school website, FriendshipDaySchool.org. explore the idea of details in the text. sound and vibration. Violin- Please be sure to keep up with your scholar’s box violin so they (scholars will need a Letter of the week: are prepared for their lessons. bowl, plastic wrap, salt, Ww rice, or beans) Creative Arts teachers assign grades for each class. P= participates and Spelling Words N= needs to participate. Be sure to talk with your scholar about Social Sciences Down participation. Their cameras need to be on and they need to be engaged Scholars continue to Than in the lesson. explore the 50 United Water Key Vocabulary States. They are learning Doubles Fact, Near Double Fact, Number Line, Ten Frame Now how to identify each Find Important Information, Dates and Events: state’s shape (territory), Long Online Scholastic Book Fair- March 10th-23rd name and spelling, as well as fun facts. Last *Reading Challenge!! Read Across America -March- 1st-31st. Please check your scholar’s week we traveled to read aloud date! Missouri and Montana. March Madness with Google Maps. Reading Challenge: Pick Up Day- Friday, March 26th. Times to be announced. Scholars are creating a RAZKids and Epic travel booklet with key Books. ****March Madness Reading Challenge must be done on RazKids information about each and or Epic Books. We will check both sites weekly. state. 2nd Grade Weekly Post Teacher: Mrs. Cureton Cell Number – 704-369-3276 Instructional Assistant: Mrs. Bostick Week of March 22, 2021 Important Dates March 23, 2021 – Last Day for the Online Scholastic Book Fair March 24, 2021 – 4th Quarter Begins. March 26, 2021 – Pick Up Day from 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM for Materials and Supplies. Homework Penmanship (Cursive) – Please allow your scholar to place his/her writing packet at their workstation. We will be using cursive penmanship sheets daily. Math- We will continue to use the CUBES strategy and other strategies for Addition and Subtraction problems. Scholars must show their work when completing their math assignment. Please make sure your scholar is practicing his/her facts! Spelling List – river, such, where, smile, even, something, never, twitches, caught, everyone, park, river, believe, plunges, dazed (Spelling Test will be on Monday, March 22, 2021). Reading – Read at least 30 mins. daily. Complete your reading log daily. Please use Raz Kids as your main reading resource. I would like for all scholars to read a Raz Kid book daily and complete at least 2 reading comprehension tests per week. I will be monitoring their progress weekly. Your scholar may continue to enjoy all the wonderful books in Epic after completing the Raz Kids assignment. Writing – Complete a journal entry on Tuesdays and Thursdays only. Please practice ELA narrative writing skills while completing your journals. Include a beginning, middle and end with at least two events. Do not forget to use words such as first, next, then, and finally to tell the order of events. Check Daily– Reading Log, Journal (Tuesday and Thursday), Practice Addition and Subtraction Facts. Practice your cursive writing on a separate sheet of lined paper. Please do not use the cursive writing sheets from school. Current Topics of Study ELA MATH STEMScopes SOCIAL STUDIES Unit 4 Topic 6 Generation Genius Civics Trade Book Models to Subtract 2- Introduction to Light Laws and Rules in The Earth Dragon Awakes Vocabulary Benchmark Vocabulary Digit Numbers. school and the Scatters, Missiles, Use Addition to Check Light community. Surges, Trample. Subtraction, Light Source Reading Analysis Practice Subtraction, Opaque What are Rules? Point of View, Solve One-Step and Translucent What are Laws? Character Responses, Two-Step Problems, Writing Transparent Reasoning Sun What Does Lady Retell a Scene, Write Justice Stand For? About a Character’s Emit Responses to an Event. Mrs. Dixon and Mrs. Gordon Third Grade Week of March 22, 2021 Important Information, Dates, and Upcoming Events Read Across America Month- Continue to celebrate “Read Across America Month” by visiting and purchasing some books from our Virtual Spring Book Fair! FDS Virtual Spring Book Fair – The fair has been extended for two more weeks! The Virtual Spring Book Fair is scheduled for March 10th – March 30th! Please remember to visit and purchase some books for your scholar. Remember to use your scholar’s current Guided Reading Book Levels! Generation Genius- For the optional DIY activity: If you and your scholar choose to complete any of the DIY activities, we send home, please send us pictures and/or videos of the activity process. We will send the pictures and/or videos to Ms. Harrison to include in our new website! Academics in March ELA & Math - We will start our prep work for Standardized Testing in the areas of ELA and Math. Make sure your scholar is reading on his/her current reading level and two levels above. Each scholar must continue to respond to his/her reading using the Reading Comprehension notebook with the reading and writing strategies provided. Also, all scholars must continue to use the XtraMath program for homework! Math- We will continue to work on Math Strategies this week.