Thursday, April 23, 2015

April 24th News and Notes

Important Dates This Week:
Thursday, April 30th -
1.  All field trip money and lunch forms due back to school
2.  First Day of Achievement Testing for First and Second - Please have your student bring a water bottle to school that is clearly marked with their name.  Snack will be provided.  Our classroom is starting testing on this day to keep ahead with our field trip day scheduled for May 7th on the Thursday of the "official" testing week...
3.  Science Fair - 6:00 - 7:00pm - Please come and see our classroom group project!  Also, you can browse the individual projects as completed by our older students!

Friday, May 1st -
Walk-a-Thon at HHS High School Track - 8:30 - 11:00am - Please have your student wear comfortable walking shoes and bring a water bottle clearly marked with their name.  Pledge forms are due on this day as well.  Drivers are needed for this event if you are available....please contact me early next week!

Field Trip Money Due Friday, April 30th
If you would like to be a chaperone on our trip to St. Louis on Thursday, May 7th, please return all admission fees as described in the green letter by Thursday, April 30th.  Even if you are not attending as a chaperone, please return the white half-sheet attached to the green sheet indicating what your child plans to do for lunch on the day of the trip.

Field Day - Wednesday, May 20th
We are searching for some parents that might be able to help out with all or part of Field Day this year.  Teachers will be running games and we are needing parents who can take groups of students from game to game.  Please let me know if you can help us!

Religion
Memory Work for the Week of April 27th:

Tuesday (First and Second)
Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation.  Matthew 26:41

NO ADDITIONAL MEMORY WORK FOR NEXT WEEK!

Reading
Please watch for Reading homework to be in bookbags on Monday and Wednesday nights next week due to changes in schedule on Thursday and Friday...

First Grade Reading Story:  Happy Fall!
Sight Words/Vocabulary:  against   yellow   fall   orange   sure   wondered   below   season

Second Grade Reading Story:  Farfallina and Marcel
Vocabulary:  peered   giggled   snuggled   fluttered   vanished   recognized

Spelling
Due to schedule changes on Thursday and Friday, we will be having a shortened Spelling test for each grade on Wednesday.  Please have your child prepared to test on the first five words on each list below.  They will receive bonus points for any additional words that they can spell correctly after that...

First Grade Words:  seven  large  trading  hopped  write
Bonus Words:  before  know  hoped  chipped  playground  again  country
Bonus Sentence:  The wind made the trees sway.

Second Grade Words:  lit  little  set settle  rip 
Bonus Words:  ripple   pad  paddle   middle   bubble  recognized

McDonalds Superstars of the Week:
First Grade: Jared Duccini
Second Grade:  Eric Forney

Book Nook Topic for Next Week:
Junie B. Jones....continued

Thanks for all that you do!  Have a nice weekend and week ahead!
 

Love and Blessings,
Mrs. Bradshaw
kbradshaw@stjohnshannibal.org

 

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