March 11-15

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¡Queridos Padres!

I hope you all had a great weekend! Here is the information for the field trip on Tuesday. Please send your child with their own booster, snack, and lunch. It will be a morning field trip but long, therefore, we won’t be back on time for school lunch (hot lunch).

Grace & Peace;

Maestra Ruiz

If you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions; please do not hesitate to contact me.

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Announcements

* Upcoming Events…

 

March 22
 End of Marking Period – K-8

March 27
All School Chapel – 9:00 a.m.

For you newsletters (preK-5th and 6-8 if possible!)
Can you tell me more about immersion in middle school? As our students reach middle school, we continue to intensely focus on language development. Currently, our Mandarin students study in Chinese for four hours of the day. In Spanish, our students spend three class periods in Spanish. While students leaving 5th grade have a great level of fluency, they are still at a 5th-grade developmental level. Just as students have not reached adult sophistication in their native language by 5th grade, our immersion students still have significant room for growth. Throughout middle school, we continue to introduce and solidify more difficult language forms. While we know that intrinsic motivation might fall during these years, this is a time of immense vocabulary and language development. It is imperative that students continue to hear and produce their immersion language through these years so that their language development keeps pace with their cognitive development and so that their academic use of language grows sufficiently to meet the demands of grade level curriculum/content. If you have more questions about secondary immersion (6th-12th), please connect with Jodi Pierce jpierce@zcs.org.
Book it!
This is the last month!!!
The Pizza Hut Book It reading calendar will be sent soon! Check your child’s communication folders. The program runs from October thru March.

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Curriculum

Bible:

– Unit 7: The settling of the land

– Bible Verse Memory

Josue 24:15 

“Por mi parte mi familia y yo serviremos al Señor”

Math:

– Unit 5  Place Value Situation  

Reviewing and Assessing the unit

– Unit 6  Comparison and Data   

Explore representing data

Science:

Weather Watchers
Review on the Life cycle

Grammar:

Language Art U5W3

  • Grammar: Verbs
  • Word study: Hh (ha, he,hi, ho, hu)
  • Poem: La h; Hipopotamito
  • Culture and language: Feliz día de __________.
  • Mentor text: El perro vagabundo 
  • Vocabulary: echar de menos, magnífico, vagabundo, a la excursión pertenecer el dueño, detener, tener, prisa
  • word wall words: hasta, después, dónde, estás, luego

Reading:

Books and book-bags were sent home! Please, keep encouraging your child to read at home daily.

March is Reading Month:

March 13 – Waldo Goes to the “Game” – Wear the colors of your favorite team or come dressed in “sports” clothes 

March 20 – Dress as Waldo/or Give Waldo a New Look – Hats and Stripes Day

March 27 – Beach Day – Wear Summer clothes

Strategies:

Accuracy

*Look carefully at letters and words. Make sure what you see is what you say
*Read each word carefully from beginning to end
*Blend the sounds, stretch and re-read
*Say known words quickly
Comprehension
*Check for understanding
*Use prior knowledge to connect with the text
*Make pictures or mental images, visualize
*Ask questions
Fluency
*Practice common sight words and high-frequency words
*Read phrases, not word by word
*Make your reading sound like talking
*Use a character’s voice

Books and book-bags should return to school on Monday.

There is a $5.00 fee that needs to be paid for books and or book-bags that are not returned or found.

Writing:

Authors as mentors – Learning from Angela Johnson’s books

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Volunteers

Lunchtime duty 11:55 – 12:20 pm

A wonderfully made celebration will be from 12:45 – 1:15

March 14 -> Ty’s wonderfully made/ B-day

March 21 -> Levi’s wonderfully made/ B-day

March 28 -> Harper’s wonderfully made/ B-day

 Thanks for reading it until the end! 

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