Parents,
This week is literacy week. Today we read the book I am peace by Susan Verde. This book is our theme for literacy week.
During literacy week students can bring books from home for the book swap. This is a great opportunity to share books with one another. Tuesday night is Literacy Night. Please come with your family and enjoy fun games and activities, as well as an Usborne book fair. It is at the school from 5:30-7:00 PM. Come dressed as your favorite storybook character and have fun celebrating literacy with us!
Throughout the week we encourage students to be reading at home and at school. Our literacy committee created a beautiful tree in the front of the school. Each time a student reads a book, they get to add a leaf to the tree. Please encourage your children to spend time at home reading good books! We want our tree to sprout a lot of leaves! I will have copies of the leaves in our classroom and Ms. Jess and I can help them fill them out.
Lastly, we will have a read-a-thon on Friday. The morning class will read from 9:30 to 10:00. The afternoon class will read from 12:00 to 12:30. Students are encouraged to bring a favorite book from home to enjoy. Please no pillows, blankets, or stuffed animals.
We will continue our study of Oceania and its deserts. We will talk about the parts of a reptile and some of the different types of seeds there are. We will also continue looking at levers. Our artist this month is Henri Matisse. Please remember that Friday is early out. The morning class is finished at 10:30 and the afternoon class is finished at 1:00 pm.
Have a great week!
Ms. Jen, Ms. Jess and Ms. Kimber