A PEEK AT OUR WEEK April 13th-17th April is Poetry Month- read lots of poetry to your children. Nursery Rhymes are short and model the rhythm of language!  Read to an adult each night!   April- Monday- Welcome Back!       *Reminder- We are attending the Music Festival in a non competitive category. Bring your best singing voices to school! (Dress=semi formal like Christmas Concert)              April 14- Tuesday–     Hot Lunch day-            -NO CLASS for Kindergarten only as we are holding                        Teddy Bear Picnic                 April 15- Wednesday- You and Your World (Mrs. Dickson)    April 16- Thursday– * Guidance with Mrs. Sturgeon                                      Poetry Anthology goes home- April is POETRY MONTH- we will learn how to write some poems   April 17 – Friday – Pizza Day!   What we’re up to:  Zoo Phonics!  We are working on “nonsense words” to practice sounding out words. Here are some examples:  z u d,   f i d,  y i z,  w a p,  n o p,  v a b.   Value Lessons- continue to stick to our value lessons  and follow the I care rules at school and at home.     Language Arts- Daily 5 and Writing  With the interruptions, we are going back to practice our Daily 5 work. Read to Self, and Read to Someone, WORD Work : we have learned some great strategies on how to be better readers! Strategies and notes on each will be sent home throughout the week so you know what students are practicing.                 Writing recipe- We are building on the writing recipe. We will create a rubric together and post it soon. WE ARE WRITERS! Math-        Number Sense: students learn more about numbers and how they relate to one another- more/fewer, numbers before/after others, count by touch, identify number placement on a number line etc. 5 and 10 frames.          Our Math Unit- Exploring Numbers- Outcomes to Master… N1-Say the number sequence by 1’s starting anywhere from 1-10 N2-Recognize at a glance and name familiar arrangements of 1-5 objects or dots N3- Relate a numeral to its respective quantity N4-Represent and describe numbers 2-10 concretely and pictorially N5-Compare quantities, 1-10, using 1 to 1 correspondence. (More, less, difference between)