Happy St.Patrick's Day Weekend!

 Looking Back


This week in our UFLI (phonics) lessons, we learned about the spelling patterns e_e and u_e  (we call it the “bossy e”). We learned that these patterns spell the long sound of the vowel, however, u_e is a bit tricky because there are 2 different sounds it could make when a “bossy e” comes along (long “yu” sound like “cube” or the “oo” sound like “tune”). We practiced the high frequency words (heart words) “one, once”” and reviewed many of the heart words we have learned over the past few weeks. Today your child has come home with two decodable stories to read to you as well as a Roll and read game and a small Home Practice page. These home practice materials are now in an ORANGE folder! Thank you for returning your child’s folder this week! They have added the new stories and practice pages at the back. Please return the folder EVERY THURSDAY in order for new materials to be added each Friday. See last week’s blog for more detailed information on how to use the practice pages if your child was away last Friday.


We learned a fun song called “I’m a Little Leprechaun.” Ask your child if they can sing it for you!

We drew our plan for a leprechaun trap and wrote about how it will work using the words “first,” “next,” “then,” “last.” We also wrote stories about a picture that we are excited to share with you next week during parent/teacher conferences. 


In math, we worked on a new learning target - “I can subtract by counting back.” We practiced this using a bar model and then did a fun math problem about bowling to practice. We set up a mini bowling alley with blocks and used a big marble for our bowling ball! You could set up a mini bowling alley at home to practice subtraction if you want. See the link below for the problem. Ask your child to show you how to use a bar model.


https://mathupcaprod.blob.core.windows.net/media/St6A4UVzhIlOh8QgyXHn6FWu/uploads/teacherdoc/G1_T6_L3_print_SA3.pdf


We had a ton of fun this week designing and creating our leprechaun traps. We planned out our traps and did a “How to Catch a Leprechaun” writing piece in our writing books to explain how it would work. Then we started building! It was amazing to see the thought and creativity that went into this project. We are excited to see if we caught anything when we come back to school Monday!


Looking Forward


Information about upcoming conferences:

Thursday, March 21 (Grades 1-4 conferences: 4:00pm – 8:00pm) 

  • Regular day of instruction for 1-4 students, no school for Kindergarten

Friday, March 22 (8:00am – 12:00pm)  

  • No school for all students


Book Fair

  • Our book fair viewing day (no purchasing this day) will be on Tuesday, March 19

  • Our book fair purchasing day will be on Wednesday, March 20

  • The book fair will also be open for purchasing during parent/teacher conferences


School will resume after Spring Break on Tuesday, April 2.

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