Week of April 30, 2012

Exciting events in our classroom: We had a great time at the Visitor's Center.  Dr. Gruhl put on a nice session for us about botany and then we went for a scavenger hunt along the trail outside.  The spring concert is coming up this Friday.  The students and Ms. Betzold have been working very hard on preparing for it.  I hope that you will be able to come and enjoy it too! I have almost all of the Flat Stanleys sent out.  I'm excited to see what we will receive back in the mail!  Thanks for helping out with the addresses. We are planning a class service project to raise money for an organization that we choose.  It looks like we will probably be having a bake sale to do this.  I will send him a note later this week to let you know more about it. I'm still missing a few report cards.  Please sign them and get them back to me as soon as you can.  If you have any questions, please contact me.                CLASSROOM WISH LIST                   electric pencil sharpener                   pencils and pencil top erasers

Focus areas for the week: Religion – Service projects; vocations Language Arts - Daily 5/CAFE, Guided Reading, homophones and homographs, Reader's Theatre Math – Adding and Subtracting Fractions (Please keep practicing your math facts!) Social Studies - WI summaries Science - Birds Spelling List happened else thought quite close bushes footprints animal people though *dehydrated

Dates to Remember: May 4 - Spring Concert May 8 - Bird Calling Contest at NGLVC at 6:30 May 25 - Alice in Wonderland play May 28 - No school (Memorial Day) May 31 - Field trip to Lumberjack show and KOA June 4 - Field trip to Madeline Island

Please continue to send snacks for 4th quarter.  We are running very, very low on snacks. Thank you for your generosity! Have a great week! Mrs. Worrall J

Week of April 23, 2012

Exciting events in our classroom: We will be going to the Visitor's Center for a program about botany next Thursday.  The programs have been very good in the past, so I'm excited for us to attend this one. I'm still missing a few report cards.  Please sign them and get them back to me as soon as you can.  If you have any questions, please contact me. We have been working on our fluency through Read to Others and Reader's Theatre.  The students have been doing well and getting better at trying to figure out the expression behind the words.  I recently read the students the book, Flat Stanley, for fun.  We are now making our own Flat Stanleys to send out to friends and relatives and hopefully go on an adventure of their own.  I'm asking that each student bring in an address of someone they can send their Flat Stanley to by this Friday, April 27.                CLASSROOM WISH LIST               electric pencil sharpener

Focus areas for the week: Religion – Service projects; vocations Language Arts - Daily 5/CAFE, Guided Reading, suffixes, shape poems, Reader's Theatre, Flat Stanley  Math – Fractions (Please keep practicing your math facts!) Social Studies - WI summaries Science - Botany Spelling List question least hour money problem completed earlier themselves voice answer *botany

Dates to Remember: April 26 - Field to trip to Visitor's Center

Please continue to send snacks for 4th quarter.  We are again running low.  Thank you for your generosity! Have a great week! Mrs. Worrall J

Week of April 16, 2012

Exciting events in our classroom: Report cards went home on Friday.  Please sign them and return them after you have looked them over.  Please contact me if you have any questions. We will be going to the Visitor's Center for a program about botany next Thursday.  The programs have been very good in the past, so I'm excited for us to attend this one. I'm working with your child on a new independent reading book project for our Daily 5 reading.  We are making goals for their reading and meeting to discuss their goals.  Please continue to support them in their reading each night. Thank you to John for our new class pet.  It is a beta fish that we decided to name Thunderfish.                CLASSROOM WISH LIST               electric pencil sharpener

Focus areas for the week: Religion – 1st - 4th commandments Language Arts - Daily 5/CAFE, Guided Reading, apostrophes, shape poems, Reader's Theatre  Math – Fractions (Please keep practicing your math facts!) Social Studies - WI summaries Science - Recycling and Earth Day Spelling List center suddenly field possible children players itself usual either completely *idolatry *blasphemy

Dates to Remember: April 26 - Field to trip to Visitor's Center

Please continue to send snacks for 4th quarter.  We are again running low.  Thank you for your generosity! Have a great week! Mrs. Worrall J

Week of April 10, 2012

Exciting events in our classroom: It's exciting to see so many of our students be servers at our Wednesday Liturgies.  They are all doing a great job!  We had a great Easter party and egg hunt.  Thanks to Ms. Montano for sending all the Easter eggs with goodies inside!  We had fun hiding them for our Kindergarten Buddies and then dyeing hardboiled eggs with them too!                CLASSROOM WISH LIST               electric pencil sharpener

Focus areas for the week: Religion – Service projects Language Arts - Daily 5/CAFE, Guided Reading, capitalization Math – Composite and prime numbers (Please keep practicing your math facts!) Social Studies - WI summaries Science - Finish up landforms and continents Spelling List pattern walked main someone seashells knew finally through beautiful distance

Dates to Remember: April 13 - Report cards go home April 26 - Field to trip to Visitor's Center

I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter!  Report cards will be going home this Friday, so please check with your child for those.  If you have any questions please feel free to contact me. Have a great week! Mrs. Worrall J

Week of 4-2-12

Exciting events in our classroom: Our Liturgy went great last week.  The students did a very nice job!  Tomorrow is the end of 3rd Quarter.  I will be sending home report cards next Friday, April 13.  We will also be doing our reading fluency tests this week. I would like all Native American projects brought home by the end of this week, so we can make room for new things.  Thank you for your help with this!  We will be dyeing Easter eggs with our Kindergarten Buddies on Thursday afternoon.  We are looking forward to a fun time with them again!

Focus areas for the week: Religion – Holy Week Language Arts - Daily 5/CAFE, Guided Reading, finish folktales, suffixes Math – Factors and Multiples (Please keep practicing your math facts!) Social Studies - WI becomes a state! Science - landforms and continents Spelling List weather sixes surface instead possible problems certainly important already English

Dates to Remember: April 3 - End of 3rd Quarter April 6-9 - Easter Break April 26 - Field to trip to Visitor's Center            CLASSROOM WISH LIST             electric pencil sharpener

I hope everyone has been enjoying the nice weather! Have a great week! Mrs. Worrall J