Hello everyone! Happy Girls Day!
This Week:
Reading: Our focus was “Fairy Tales.” These stories are super fun to read!
This week we read, Rumpelstiltskin, The Princess and the Pea, Jack and the Beanstalk, Hansel and Gretal, and Rapunzel. We tried to look for common themes throughout all Fairy Tales including a good opening (Once upon a time…) a good ending (and they all lived happily ever after), royalty (kings, princesses), love, good characters, bad characters, and special numbers or repeated phrases. Some Fairy Tales have all of those and others only have some of them. The students enjoyed all the stories that we read! Next week we’ll continue with some other common Folk Tales.
Writing: This week we started writing our own Fairy Tale! We used a graphic organizer to write down some ideas we have including good and bad characters, setting, magic, problem, solution, and beginning, middle, and end! The students are so creative with their stories! I can’t wait until they are finished!
Math: We are flying through Chapter 6 which is about double digit addition. The students are working so hard at double digit addition especially at understanding the place value of the 10’s. We are adding and subtracting by 10’s as well as we even tried double digit addition with regrouping.
Bible: We are finally introduced to our favorite Bible character of David! Saul disobeyed God and will not be king for very long. Instead God chooses David to be king. David is just a young shepherd guy but God sees his heart and chooses him. One of David’s most impressive thing is his battle with the giant Goliath. With God on his side, David fought a 9ft tall giant with only 5 stones and a slingshot. David also played the harp and wrote many of the Psalms that can be found in the Bible, including our Bible verse this week! On Thursday the students got to fight Goliath with pompoms and spoons!
Thursday was Dr. Seuss’ birthday! We celebrated by reading The Cat in the Hat and doing a Cat in the Hat 100’s grid coloring challenge. Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!
Next Week:
Spelling Words: star, scat, sleep, skate, space, spell, smile, snack, swim, stop, could its
Bible Memory Verse: “Man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.” 1 Samuel 16:7b
Upcoming Events:
3/13: OCSI Holiday - No School
3/17: Culture Fair (K-2nd students will listen to the 3-5gr students explain their country reports!)
3/20: Elementary Student-Led Conferences
3/24: 3rd Quarter Ends
3/27: 4th Quarter Begins
3/29-31: Achievement Testing (grades 1-8)
3/31: Report Cards Issued
4/3-7: SPRING BREAK - No School
