NEWS for week of Mar. 29

There will not be any homework for this short week. We will also be reviewing words and not having any new words to study this week!!!!

Just a note that we could use some more pencils if you would like to purchase and send some to school. This group has gone through every pencil that was sent at the beginning of the year and all the pencils I had left from last year!!!

Hope everyone has a TERRIFIC Spring Break!!!! See you back at school on April 12!!!!

BETTER NEWS ABOUT GRADE ASSESSMENT

We will not be giving the GRADE assessment for first grade until the first week of May now!!!! Thought you might like to know this. We will have the month of April after returning to review and teach the skills not taught yet before we have to take it!!!!!

GRADE assessment

Ms. Whitaker told us last Friday that K-2 will now be able to wait and take our Spring GRADE assessment two weeks after we return from Spring Break. So now we will be able to review the first week we return and GRADE will begin the week of April 19!!!!!

Changes in Spring Break and End of School Date

We will now begin Spring Break on Wenesday, March 31. We have to go to school on Mar. 29 and Mar. 30 to make up two snow days. The official Spring Break date is now Mar. 31-April 9!!!!!

The official day for students to get out of school is now Thursday, May 27!!! We will make up the other three snow days on Tuesday, May 25 thru Thursday, May 27.

Words for Week of Mar. 22-26

Spelling words - coin, oil, soil, toy, boy, point, moist, destroy

High-frequency words - baby, edge, enough, garden, only, sharp, together, watched

Vocabulary words - built, chickens, danger, expected, feathers, gathered, gizzards, taught, vacuum cleaner

Remember to practice these words a few minutes each night to help build fluency and vocabulary skills.

Homework for Mar. 22-26

Monday - Read story in folder. Complete reading sheet.

Tuesday - Read story in folder. Complete math sheet.

Wednesday - Read story in folder. Play CRASH with this week's words.

Thursday - Read library book. Write spelling words two times each.

Friday - No Homework

Words for Week of Mar. 8-12, 2010

Spelling words - by, try, my, fly, cry, why, pry, multiply

High-frequency words - around, ever, talk, dance, ocean, though, else, open

Vocabulary words - canoe, cards, cedar, fields, Grandaddy, imagine, mind, remember, tired

Please practice these words a few minutes each night to help build your child's vocabulary and fluency skills!!!!!