Dear Parents, March 20, 2017 Congratulations to Danicka on winning the Palmisano Writing Contest for the Primary level! Woohoo! Happy Spring! Here is what first graders are doing this week… Language Arts: We are working on our opinion writing unit. In phonics this week, we are focusing on our base words and endings –ed […]
Dear Parents, March 13, 2017 First graders were working very hard on their works for the Palmisano Writing Contest. I would like to first congratulate the finalists for the Palmisano Writing Contest: Drake, Savannah, Nicholas, Danicka, and Kaitlyn. We will have a special assembly on March 19, where these and other finalist will be […]
Sixth graders are studying earthquakes in science and today in our lab they had to design and build a building out of marshmallows and toothpicks on a base of jello. They had to transport it to our earthquake table and the buildings had to withstand a “Mr. Merkord Earthquake”. This year the buildings withstood the […]
Dear Parents, March 6, 2017 Here is what first graders are doing this week… Language Arts: We are wrapping up our unit on informative writings this week! In phonics this week, we are focusing on base words and endings –s, -ed, -ing. Our new spelling words are from Unit 33 this week and focus […]
Dear Parents, February 27, 2017 Here is what first graders are doing this week… Language Arts: We will be working on adding details and comparisons in our informative writings. In phonics this week, we are focusing on the vowel pairs “oo”, “ue”, “ew” and “ou” and long /i/ sound spelled “ie” and “igh”. We […]
Dear Parents, February 20, 2017 Here is the scoop for this week… Language Arts: We are beginning to work on creating a table of contents for our informative writing books. In phonics this week, we are focusing on the vowel pairs “oo” as in wood and compound words. Compound words are two words that […]
Dear Parents, February 13, 2016 Here is what we are doing this week! Language Arts: We are working on grabbing our readers attention in our informative writing. In phonics this week, we are focusing on the vowel pairs “oa” and “ow” and the long /o/ sound as in show and boat. As we practice […]
Dear Parents, February 6, 2017 Here is what first graders are doing this week… Language Arts: We are working on going through our informative writing checklist this week. We are asking ourselves what we need to make better and what we are already doing well. In phonics this week, we are focusing on the […]
Dear Parents, January 30, 2017 I hope all had a wonderful weekend! It was great to see so many of you on Friday for our Parents Day! Thank you to all who came; your children were beyond excited to share the day with you. Language Arts: We are pushing ourselves with our informative writing! […]
Dear Parents, January 23, 2017 Here’s what we are learning… Language Arts: We are still working on our informative writing! We are asking ourselves what our readers need to know so that they can be an expert too! In phonics this week, we are focusing again on CVCe (consonant, vowel, consonant, silent e) words […]