Once Upon a Time...

Welcome little Sloane Harper Sansale into the world!  We are so happy for Mrs. Sansale!!

 

 

We have ended Australia and started our new theme: FAIRY TALES AND FOLK TALES!  It has been such a fun and busy week- take a look at all we have learned!

 

 

 

Literature Block:

 

 

 



More Phonics- working on "le" words

Reviewing time on ClockMasters

Fairy Tale JUMBO puzzles!

Our very serious new tornado drill policy... April Fools!!

Place Value Roll!

Working with the teachers on our Australian Animal Hunt story

Eggs-cellent Contraction Matching

Adding our spelling words to our My Writing Words Books

Writing sentences using our Adjective and Noun Jars

Is Your Smile Like A Crocodile's?  Scholastic Reading

Writing stories using our Easter words

Stamp Spelling

Easter Word Stories

Reviewing time using ClockMaster

Listening Center Follow Up

Journal Writing

Math:  We continued our unit of measurement.  This is such a fun, hands-on unit for students!  They have learned so much already!

Measuring using non-standard measurement

We can measure with anything!

We can even measure the table!

Measurement Scavenger hunt using inches and centimeters

Social Studies We started our new theme- Fairy Tales and Folk Tales!  Mrs. Herbers brought in a mystery bag full of clues, and the students guessed the fairy tale!  Then we talked about the elements of a Fairy Tale vs. a Folk Tale and wrote about our favorites.  And, of course, we started reading some great examples!!

TNT:

We created book covers for our Australian Animal Hunt stories!!  The first few are finished- come by and read them outside our classroom! 

 

Spelling
Phonics Skills: Digraphs /kw/qu, /hw/wh
Words: quiet, quart, quit, quick, quack, wheel, whale, white, while, whiz
Challenge: whatever, question, magical, happily
Surprise the Teacher Word: ???

Reminders:
-Friday, April 10th- Field Trip to the Literature Festival at Rockhurst University! 
-Friday, April 17th- Field Trip to the Kansas City Zoo!  Please turn in your permission slips if you haven't done so already. 

Have a great Easter and enjoy the long weekend!! 
Maeve and Beth