**Spring break--begins March 26th, ends April 3rd. Students will return to school on Monday, April 4th.
**Thanks for helping out with our ZERO WASTE DAY. The student lunches had great food plus reusable or recyclable containers. Our School Lunch students only took what they were going to eat and we opened and drank our milk without a straw!
**The annual ACADEMIC FAIR and EGG DROP contest is Wednesday, April 20th. Ms. Creehan spoke to the students about both events and they got to look at some examples of projects. We now have 5 students doing an academic project and 7 students working on their egg drop vehicles. Come on----join in the fun and learning!!!! There is still time to decide what you would like to do. It is a great learning experience and fun to represent our kindergarten class.
**SAVE THE DATE--Friday, April 15th, 6:00-8:00 pm--Centennial Celebration/Taste of Irving. Our committee is working hard and we have some great events going on that evening. What was it like at Irving 100 years ago? Was Ms. Gullo teaching then? Find out from alums what the curriculum was like throughout the years. Bring a meal to share, hear the wonderful sounds of the Irving Chorus, view artwork from all the students at Irving. It is going to be great! More info is coming!!!!
**Thanks to those of you who participated in Family Reading Night--Swap, Shop and Read. We had a nice turnout of families, swapped some really great books and ate yummy cookies!
**Our Spelling Bee participants, Alistair and Rylee and our alternate, McKenna are hard at work practicing their word lists for Irving's Annual Spelling Bee on Wednesday, April 13th at 11:00 am. All are welcome to watch the bee take place in the auditorium.
**Our Field Trip to the Planetarium is set for Tuesday, April 12th from 9:00-2:00 pm. Our parent volunteers are Tracy Zurawski, Samir Oufkir, Diane Donaldson (Danny's grandma) and Amy Baker. Specific info will go out to you after break. Don't worry--we still have 2-3 more field trips left!!!! I appreciate that many of you were interested in coming.
**After break---send in all the giant boxes and other cool stuff that you have been saving for our space stations. We will devote the week of April 18th-21st for design, construction, painting and detailing of our space stations. The students will work in small groups.
**Route to Reading Skills Groups will resume Tuesday, April 5th. I am very pleased with all the student's progress thus far.
**CHECK IT OUT--Author Marc Brown, of "Arthur" fame will be a Irving School of Wednesday, April 13th from 12:45-1:30 pm. Order form for books is in the digital backpack.
This week:
It was all about the MOON!! What do you get when you put flour and cocoa powder in a pie tin and drop marbles down into it-----a MOONSCAPE!! Groups of students created their moonscapes and then sketched them in their science journals They labeled the craters, hills, mountains and "seas." We learned about the moon's surface and how it was formed. We talked about astronauts and space vehicles and other living things (tomato seeds, chimps, ladybugs) that have traveled to the moon.
Reading: We began Unit 6 called, "Red, White and Blue." This unit explores the idea of patriotism and loyalty to our country. It incorporates family, friends and school and takes a look at symbols that represent our country. The literature centers around our flag, citizenship, democracy and the right to vote. We continue to work on parts of speech-nouns, verbs and adjectives. We explored the use of articles (a, an and the.) The students are having fun playing a game called "Silly Sentences." We review r blends, 4-5 phoneme words, word play activities, and where they hear a particular sound--beginning, middle or end of the word. We continue to work on reading fluency and reading for meaning. Many of the students are beginning to challenge themselves by reading stories with more vocabulary. Keep reading those Busy Readers!!!! Keep those reading logs coming in.
Math: We continue work in our daily math journals. We will begin working on the subtraction the process after break. The students are becoming more consistent in recognizing coin values and exchanging pennies for dimes and nickels. We reviewed counting by 2"s and 5"s as well as counting on, comparing shapes and writing 2 -3 digit numbers.
Writing: In our writing process this week, we learned about a simple paragraph, writing about a topic and using details and descriptions to tell about a topic. We used our shadow dance photographs for our topics and constructed 4 questions to answer about them. We learned what a draft is. We wrote our answers to our questions in sentence form, read them back and made any corrections on the draft. We then transferred our work to our final copy using our best handwriting and all we know about letter size, line usage, spacing and punctuation. The students were awesome and so were their paragraphs. I will display them in the hallway after break.
Science: We pondered the questions--What is the moon? When can we see it? How does it compare in relation to the sun and earth? We took a look at many photos, reflected our thoughts and ideas in our science journal. We created our moonscapes. We are finding out that space is a pretty amazing place. We are beginning to learn our planet song.
Literature: "Meggie Moon," Kitten's first Full Moon," If You Decide to Go to the Moon," "Sun and Moon," Poetry selection--The Moon, by Robert Louis Stevenson, Seymour Simon's-"The Moon," "What is the Moon," "Spend the Day in Backwards Bay," a word family book and "Patriotism."
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