Dear Parents,                    May 13, 2013

Happy Mother’s Day! I hope you all enjoyed your Mother’s Day gift and card!

We are continuing on with Theme 10.  Our reading strategy this week is summarizing. The comprehension skill that will help us with this is sequence of events. The ability to organize our thoughts through what happens and when in our story helps us summarize the main ideas of the story we are reading. Our phonics focus this week continues to be on r-controlled words but with a focus on ar, as in star and hard. Our grammar focus is on describing words- taste, smell, and feel. We will be using words with the ar in our Spelling this week!

We will continue our math chapter on adding three numbers and using doubles to subtract.

In social studies we will begin our final unit – My World Near and Far. This is a great unit exploring different countries and customs! I can’t wait to begin!

In science we will begin our final unit on matter. Once again, another of my favorites! This week, matter will just be introduced as we will spend some time reviewing for our field trip to the Farmers Market on Wednesday!

In religion we will learn how the Holy Spirit helps the church.

Announcements for the week:

• Please remind your student to bring their library book on Tuesday so that they may check out another one.
• Wednesday is our field trip to the Farmers Market. Although it is $1 free dress, please have your student come in jeans/shorts and polo shirts as we are representing Sacred Heart School when we leave campus.
• Thursday we have an assembly at 11:00am. At the assembly first grade will be performing a weather skit that they have been working on in science. Please join us if your schedule permits!
• Friday is the Jog-a-thon! Woo-hoo! And a noon dismissal! Double Woo-hoo!
• This week it is All About…..Alex A. Congratulations!

Have a fantastic week!

Miss. Manning