Upcoming Dates
* Thursday, April 1st: March Monthly Homework Due
I will send home the April monthly homework next week in our homework envelopes.
* Sunday, April 4th: April Scholastic Book Orders Due (attached to this newsletter)
Please try to order your books online. Our class earns free books with online purchases. Thank you!
1. Go to: www.scholastic.com/bookclubs
2. Class User Name: Beebear
3. Password: MrsYu (no spaces or periods)
4. Browse books and place order using your credit card (no need to send money to school)
5. About 2 weeks after I receive all the orders, your books will be delivered to school!
If you prefer not to order online, you can return the order form directly to me with ONE check payable to Scholastic Book Clubs. Please hand it to me by Friday, April 2nd.
* Monday, April 12th to Friday, April 16th: No School – Spring Recess
Enjoy your week of vacation!
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Dear Families,
We had a new student join our class today. Her name is Resithi and she moved here from India about a month ago. She is joining our afternoon class. Please say hello to her family and welcome them to our school! Also, this week you should have received our class photo that some of you purchased. Please let me know if you didn’t get your order.
Here are some highlights for the week:
• Star of the Week: Last week’s Star was Woojin and this week’s is: Matthew N.
(On our website under “Curriculum” and “Star of the Week.”)
• Letter of the Week: O
(You can see our computer center drawings in the “Classwork” section of our website.)
• Story of the Week: Old Mister Rabbit
• Language Arts: Starting last week, our listening center worksheet changed to include not only the character and setting, but also summarizing the beginning, middle, and ending of a story. Most students are doing a great job writing a sentence about the different parts of a book. However, it is more difficult for students to really summarize the story versus pick out a specific incident in the story. We are working now on really getting the main idea out of a story, and focusing on the middle of a story being the conflict or problem, and the ending is the solution, or how that problem gets solved. Our journals this week was to write about something that reminds them of Spring.
• Sharing: Everyone is doing a great job with their sharing, and students are definitely more comfortable in front of the class. In the next few weeks, I plan on modifying our sharing evaluation sheet in several areas. One area is fluency and pace. I would like students to work on speaking at a consistent pace throughout their sharing, for example, not stopping too often or speaking too quickly. Another area is participation. I will be evaluating students’ listening skills while others share, as well as whether or not they are raising their hands to ask questions. These are some additional areas to work on to improve everybody’s sharing.
• Math: We finished our chapter on Time and Calendar. We reviewed how to tell a minute hand from the hour hand, and what the difference is between a minute and an hour. They are doing a great job reading the time by the hour. In the calendar, we are continuing to practice answering questions such as, “What will tomorrow be?” or “What day of the week is April 5th?” Sometimes students get confused between the months and days. Now we are starting the next chapter on numbers from 21-30. Keep practicing accurate counting!
• Computer Lab: We worked on another type of poem this week, called an acrostic poem. Our names were stamped out vertically in Kidpix, and we had to search all the stamps to find different pictures that begin with letters in our name. You can see these pictures in the “Classwork” section of our website! These are called our Name Poems.
• Science: The topic for this week was all about Spring. We’ve read different books about spring and on Monday, we brainstormed what spring is and what it looks like. We wrote down things we see, hear, and feel in spring, and then wrote a short Spring poem on a flower template. Also, we talked about how trees are changing in Spring. I asked students to carefully observe the different trees they see as they go home everyday, and notice whether trees may be evergreen or deciduous trees. We learned how some trees blossom and have flowers in this time of year, and we are making an art project about blossoms. Another topic we are starting is the life cycle of a caterpillar. We read the story, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and we are making our own versions of the story. We learned that caterpillars hatch from an egg, eat a lot, make a cocoon, and turn into butterflies!
• Assembly: We had a special presentation by the 3rd graders in Mrs. Webber’s classroom. They performed a play for our classroom called, “The April Fool’s Joke That Went Too Far.” It was nice to see other kids be able to prepare something and perform for us!
• Art: Some of the projects we made today in centers has to do with spring animals and babies being born! We made a handprint of a brown bunny with Ms. Shama for our April quilt square. We also made a baby chick hatching out of an egg using paper with our parent helpers.
I hope you have a nice weekend! See you on Monday!
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