This week….

Wednesday

CHICKS due date!

You may wear Jeans and purple or blue shirts if you bring in two cans of food for our food bank.

Thursday is Earth Day

Academic showcase/Open House starts at 6:30.  Do you know of any families who are interested in our school?  Bring them along!

Friday is an all school mass  at 8:30.

As the days get sunnier, we need to be careful of sunburns.  We are not allowed to apply sunscreen here at school and students are not allowed to share it with other students.  Please be sure to apply before coming to school.

Newsletter for 4/19/2010

Literacy:  Our new WOW word for this week is “with”.  We are also working on word families-words that have the same ending sounds.  Our consonant of the week is the initial “h” sound.  In our Handwriting Without Tears series we are learning the lower case letters “f”.  Our little reader book is “Hop With a Hog” .  Please practice these disposable books when they are sent home.  Most of our reading this week is focused around our science projects and Earth day.

Religion:  The chapter in our Religion book is about caring for others and taking care of ourselves.  We are connecting this into last weeks theme of taking care of the Earth.  All of these themes have the same message-show our love for God by being responsible citizens/Christians.  As one of our student learning expectations, we will be talking about this quite a bit for the remainder of the month.

Math: We are done with our chapters on addition and subtraction and are moving into measurement.  We will be comparing sizes, lengths, heights, circumference and weight.  We will still be practicing our addition and subtraction with games and morning seat work.  Our “Bridges Calendar” time is still practicing counting by 5’s, coin and value recognition and learning to tell time by the hour.

Science:  We have our eggs in the incubator and they should start hatching any day.  I am a little bit nervous since I don’t know anything about chicks.  Luckily Mrs. Byrd is an expert.  We also have our pollywogs swimming about in there murky fish bowl.  Our seeds are planted and a few have started sprouting.  Our classroom is starting to look like an episode of “Nature Planet”.

Social Studies:  Earth day and our responsibility to our Earth.  Conserving resources, reuse and recycle.

WOW words so far:

A   see   you   are   my   I   The   we   said   that   have

It   and   is   to   me   go  do for she he has with

Responsible Citizens

Caring for our Earth

About Me:

I began teaching at Sacred Heart in the 2007-2008 school year.  I attended Sacred Heart from 1977-1983 and then went on to St. Mary’s.  I attended University of Oregon (GO DUCKS) and I received my Bachelors Degree in Psychology and a Masters in Arts of Teaching from Southern Oregon University.  I am licensed by the state of Oregon to teach Early Childhood and Elementary level students.