Just a Note

It’s been a fun week to be a 1st grader! MAP Practice, aalpa project, science projects and springtime fun have made for a busy week! We love spending our days with your kids! The end of the year can feel so busy, so please don’t hesitate to reach out if you need anything! Let’s finish strong!

Have a great weekend!

Melissa

Important Dates

• Apr. 29-30: Maestra Rodriguez out of the building for add.a.lingua conference and son’s college graduation. Maestra Izenbaard will sub Monday.

• Apr. 29-May 10: MAP Growth Window – Spring

• May 3: Connect to Kinder Day / Connect to Young Fives Day

• Apr. 29-May 10: MAP Growth Window – Spring (see below)

• May 3: Connect to Kinder Day / Connect to Young Fives Day

• May 3: Fun Night

• May 6: All School Chapel and Family Groups

• May 9: Half Day of School (Tulip Time)

• May 14: 4th Grade Market Day

• May 22: Elementary Worship (2:50-3:10pm)

• May 24: Field Trip to John Ball Zoo (9:00-1:30)

• May 27: No School (Memorial Day) / Memorial Day Parade (K-2)

• May 28: Family Group Games

• June 3: 8th Grade Graduation

• June 5: Last Day of School; Half Day 

Reminders & Announcements:

• Field Trip to John Ball Zoo: May 24 we are heading as a grade to John Ball Zoo! We would really appreciate some parents to walk with groups of kids through the zoo. The more parents, the smaller the groups… and that’s really nice! 🙂 We are not able to find busses. Turns out that’s a very popular field trip day! Please use this SignUp Genius if you’re able to help that day! We’d like to keep this a special thing for 1st graders and ask that younger siblings do not come along this time. We’ll leave school shortly after 9:00 and be at the zoo until 11:30ish. Then head to Timber Town/Huizenga Park. We plan to get back to school about 1:30ish. There is a small fee for parents to enter the zoo, but we won’t know how much until we have a final count of chaperones and know how many of the parents helping have a membership and can get in free. Thank you!
• MAP Growth: Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning our students will participate in the final round of MAP Growth this school year. We’re eager to see how much they’ve grown! Please be sure to pack a water bottle and a healthy snack and lunch that day!
• Lunch Helper Tuesday, May 21: Maestra Rodriguez and I have one more immersion teacher meeting on Tuesday, May 21 and we’re looking for a parent (with younger siblings if necessary) to help 1st graders get their hot lunches and eat lunch with our class please. The time frame would be 12:15-12:50. Please let us know if you are available to help. Thank you!
• Car Line: If your family uses Door I/Preschool Parking Lot/Yellow door, please follow the link for information about routines and expectations during pick up/drop off. Car Line – Email For Parents – April 16, 2024

What We’re Learning Right Now

Math: Unit 5- Adding up to 100 (Students use place value understanding and properties of operations to add within 100.)

Bible: Unit 14: Salmos y Proverbios

Bible Verse: Salmo 8:1-2

Science: “Oh Say Can You See!” (sound and light waves)

Social Studies: Unit 3- How do we learn about places?

Writing: Realistic Fiction- incorporating the elements of character, setting, problem, and solution

Mentor Text: None

Grammar Feature: Some verbs in Spanish are reflexive. They are actions one does to oneself. When we use them in the first person singular we use the pronoun me and when we use them in the second person singular we use the pronoun te.

Word Feature: _m (vowel m) and  _n (vowel n)

New High Frequency Words: invierno, importa, quitan, hace, ven

Sylables of the week: _m (vowel m) and  _n (vowel n) (see our sight words for examples- invierno, importa)