April home project

For our April home project, students will need to do a creative writing project. This assignment can be based on something that happened to them or someone they know, or from their imagination. They can choose to write a poem, a song, a play, or story. This project can be simple or complex depending on your child’s ability, and interest. We would like this to be a fun, creative experience for your child and family.  This project must also include an illustration(s) to accompany their writing. This can be a variety of things–painting, clay, puppet, mobile, booklet, shadow box, etc.

This project will be due the week of April 22.

Spelling words

Spring break is coming up on April 1-5th.  There will be no school that week.

Spelling Words:

List A/B: track, deck, brick, duck, block, clock, black, truck

List C: puzzle, handle, thimble, jungle, turtle, whistle, purple, paddle

List D: average, border, cocoon, flutter, moisture, nectar, process, span, suitable, timber

List P: abreast, barrier, breadth, capital, ensure, external, feud, fortress, frequent, frontier, peasant, petty, threat, utilize, vast

Spelling words

List A/B: brush, dish, trash, fish, radish, ship, shrimp, splash

List C: wrench, wring, wrap, wrist, write, wrecker, wren, wristband

List D:ambition, auction, coast, current, frail. intelligent, novel, resident, starve, volunteer

List P: address, approve, conclude, deprive, elder, escort, fare, forlorn, hearty, inhale, merit, stingy, summon, valiant, waft

Literacy Week

Dear Parents,

Next week we are celebrating literacy and will be having several activities throughout the week.  We would like each student to bring a print-out or drawing of a favorite book cover by Monday for display outside our classroom.  We also have a huge tree in the front hallway of the school.  For each book your child reads or has read to them, they may put a leaf on the tree with the title of the book.  Students may bring books for the book swap that will be held each day in the school kivas.  We will be having a fun Literacy Night on Tuesday from 5:30-7pm.  Click to see the flier.   There will be a school-wide read-a-thon on Friday from 10:00-11:00.  Friday is an early-out and school will dismiss at 1pm.  Please help us promote a love of reading this coming week!

field trip, spelling words, and Gala baskets

Dear Parents,

Just a reminder that we have our field trip on Tuesday.  Please sign up on the carpool wejoin if you haven’t already.

Spelling words: 

List A/B: bench, chop, children, chin, lunch, bunch, branch, chimp

List C: fern, lantern, river, herd, turnip, fur, church, shirt, bird, girl, curl

List D: attract, crew, dangle, drift, event, launch, opposite, reverse, signal, steer

List P: apt, blossom, bough, content, detest, dusk, extinguish, familiar, obtain, orchard, practice, prune, stout, threadbare, wander

Below is a message from MAPA regarding the Gala baskets:
Parents, MAPA is in need of assistance for the classroom Gala baskets. We would ask that instead of donating items this year you donate money to MAPA and some of the volunteers will purchase everything for the baskets. We feel that this may alleviate any stress that providing items for the baskets may cause. We would ask you to be as generous as you can with your donation. We also ask that funds be donated by Thursday March 7th.
Thanks!!!
MAPA