These things are fun and fun is good. ~ Dr. Suess CLASSROOM NEWSLETTER Week of April 29-May 3 WE WILL BE WORKING ON: Reading: Students will be doing an author study of Jan Brett. Phonics: Review of: diphthongs, final stable syllable, digraphs, and spelling rules Writing: Students will be writing a composition that is meaningful to them using beginning, middle, and end. Math: Students write fact families Students will complete assessment 26 Students will practice subtraction strategies with minuends greater than 10 Students will review time to nearest half hour Students will order two or more objects by temp and decompose numbers to 120 Science: Students will discuss the lifecycle of a Butterfly Social Studies: Students will complete activities over Cinco De Mayo ~Special Notes~ Spelling words: any, love, move, word, four, boxes, edge, motion, scratch, study Sentence of the week: We chose to move to another room. HFW: father, through, eight Comprehension story: Students will review how to read a story fluently. Please bring $10 dollars for Field Trip! DON’T FORGET! May 3rd- Field Trip Money Due $10.00 6-10th- Teacher appreciation week 13th- Field Trip to Movies 14th- Park/snow cone Day (@ Justiss playground) 17th- Field Day! (Bring sunscreen & Water) 21st- first grade awards assembly @ 9am 24th- Last Day of school! Early Release and report cards will go home Ms. Ellis & Mrs. Edwards class Learning begins here at Justiss! These things are fun and fun is good. ~ Dr. Suess Contact Information! Conference time 3:00-3:30 Phone: (903) 737-7458 Sarah.ellis@parisisd.net (Math/Science/Social Studies) Amanda.Edwards@parisisd.net (ELAR/ Writing)