In Math, the students measured things in our classroom with nonstandard measuring tools. The students worked in pairs. One student measured and the other student recorded the data. Then they switched.

We have been reading and using are new sight words "little" and "give" this week. The students have been writing sentences.

In the Writing Center the students read the sentence:

Give a little to the ________.

And then finish it with a word they sound out and then write.

Maxx wrote: Give a little to the Pokemon.

Laniah wrote: Give a little to the pony.

The students are writing great sentences. We have been working on starting our sentences with a capital letter, spacing out the words in the sentence and ending the sentence with a punctuation mark.

We are working on words ending in -ut, un and up.

In the Art Center the students have started their own ABC Books! They look absolutely beautiful and colorful!

In Math the students started measuring everything in the classroom. They are having so much fun finding out how to measure!

We will be finishing our neighborhood this week in Social Studies!

Laniah started off the week as Star of the Week by showing the class pictures of her family. She also brought in the tooth she lost this weekend!

Laniah's mother made her a great shirt to celebrate her being Star of the Week. Laniah's shirt says, "Laniah is the * of the week! In Mrs. Rasicot's Class!

Today, we celebrated Earth Day. The class wrote friendly letters to the Earth, thanking them for the flowers, trees, air and many other things. We painted the Earth and the class pledged to try and recycle more and make the Earth beautiful by planting flower seeds.

This week we will be starting a new theme in Language Arts. Theme 9 is Animals All Around!.

We will be learning the short vowel "Uu".

We will be reading our decodeable books: "Yum, Yum, Yum" and "Is It The Bus".

The students will be reading "Whose House" and "Red-Eyed Tree Frog". In these books the students will learn about animals and their homes.

Our sight words are: and & there

Please practice the sight words with your child at home. It is so much fun to hear them read the words in our small group reading center! The more your practice the better your child will be!

Our vocabulary words are: hollow, scurry, watchful, cling, defend and ravenous. It is so fun to hear the student sound out these words and then use context clues from the stories to figure out what they mean!

We will continue building our neighborhood in Social Studies. And in Math we will move on to Measurement. We will still check the clock during school to see what time it is!

Earth Day is Thursday, April 22nd. I have something fun planned for our class!

Maxx shared something that was special to him to the class!

This week is a review week in Language Arts. We will be reviewing the sight words are, they, we, she, and good. Practice at home with your flashcards! Last week Owen earned his Sight Word Medallion. He read every sight word to the class! Way to go, Owen!

Today the class learned about the letters Yy and Zz. The class used their April Journals and practiced the letters and then wrote Yy and Zz words. Please practice writing all the letters with your child. Ask them where they should start (at the sky) for UPPER CASE LETTERS and where they should start (at the fence) for lower case letters.

Check you child's backpack for their spring pictures!

Also, thank you to those of you who have donated baking items to our Classroom Baking Basket! Please feel free to continue donating things to our Classroom Basket that will be auctioned off at the Carnival on April 24th!

We will be working on our classroom neighborhood in Social Studies and will be starting Measurement in Math.

Today it was Anida's birthday! She turned 6 years old today, April 9th! Happy Birthday Anida! Anida's Mom brought in cupcakes for the class! Thank you!

It was Tony's birthday on Thursday, April 8th. Wow! Did we have treats! Tony's Great Grandmother brought in cookies and Ebenezer and Gertrude brought in cupcakes and juice boxes! Happy Birthday Tony! Here is Tony's sister, Sabrina, Ebenezer and the birthday boy, Tony!

Grace's grandparents came to visit today! Grace introduce her GiGi and PaPa to everyone!

April 5 - April 9

This week your child is reading "My Teacher Can Teach...Anyone!" and "Bravo, Maurice!". The students will see the wide variety of jobs that people have.

Sight Words this week: she and good. Practice all the sight word your child has learned so far this year with the sight word flash cards!

We have learned: I, a, my, the, go, to, like, he, come, here, this, me, for, where, do, you, look, one, see what, two, up, down, we, want, out, who, are and they. WOW!

We will be working on words ending in -eg, -en and -et.

In Math, we will be practicing telling time to the hour and half hour.

The class was hopping on Friday!

The students made their bunny hats and looked for some eggs in the classroom.

Make sure you look in your child's backpack!

I put another egg in there.

Ask them the questions on the note.

They all are getting great at knowing the answers!

In the Art Center this week, we all got to paint!

Grace was excited to paint a picture for her GiGi and Papa!

Jake painted a bumble bee!

Mrs. Lada helped Kalkidan paint a fish! Thank you Mrs. Lada!