April 16th -- Open House/Book Fair @ 6:30 p.m.
April 24 -- Early Release
April is National Poetry Month, and there's no better way to teach kids to love reading and writing than with hilarious poems. Below is a sample from one of the latest kids poetry book titled Rolling in the Aisles.
MathSpring will be pretty, just give it a week,
When flowers are blooming down by the creek.
Bees will be buzzing as trees start to bud,
But for the moment I'm covered with mud.
Snow has been melting, since winter is through,
Replacing the whiteness with puddles of goo.
I stepped off the sidewalk and into the ooze.
Next thing I knew, I stepped out of my shoes!
Mud on my ankles and mud on my clothes.
I stumbled face-first and got mud up my nose.
Spring will be pretty, but I must confess,
The first days of spring are a muckety mess!
- Dave Crawley
We will be continuing with Chapter 9 - “Multiplying by 1-digit Numbers” this week. Students should be reviewing their multiplication and division facts. Memorization will make multiplying by two digit numbers and long division a much easier task.
Reading - Small Group
This week we will begin a a new, very humorous novel titled The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl. Your children should thoroughly enjoy it! They will be utilizing all of their reading strategies learned in reading class throughout the year while reading the novel. Below is the summary:
The Gregg family loves hunting, but their eight-year-old neighbor can't stand it. After countless pleas for them to stop are ignored, she has no other choice -- she has to put her magic finger on them. Now the Greggs are a family of birds, and like it or not, they're going to find out how it feels to be on the other end of the gun.
