Week of April 29th

What a fun week we have planned!  We will be going on our Learning Trip on Thursday to The Heard Museum in McKinney.

We will be leaving the school at 9:15am.  Arriving at the Heard around 10:15am.  Our class will be eating lunch first around 10:45am. 

We will then walk around and enjoy the sights and sounds of nature!  At 12:30pm we will join Mrs. Boyett’s class for an hour lesson with the

teachers at the Heard Sanctuary.  We will be departing at 1:30pm to return to Robertson! 

Don’t forget to wear the AQUA C. Williams field trip shirt!!!!

Parent Reminders:

1.       No siblings on the learning trip!

2.      You may check your child out at the end of the day before we leave the Heard Museum.  You will have to sign a release.

3.      If you are a chaperone, you will receive a separate email with more information and your groups!

4.      It is supposed to pretty COLD on Thursday!  Make sure you dress your child in jeans, with Long sleeves under their C. Williams

Field trip shirt! AND SEND A COAT!!!!

5.      Don’t forget to send a sack lunch with your child unless you ordered one from the cafeteria through me.

Here is the Link for the directions to the Heard:

http://www.heardmuseum.org/maps/directions.asp

In Class we are starting our end of the year writing sample for the Second grade teachers!  I am also starting

My end of the year reading, writing and math assessments and will be working on them until the end of May with each student.  We will still

Be doing guided reading.  Most students will be bringing home 1 guided reading book and a library book to read for homework!

Spelling Words: car, star, jar, bed, sled, fed, did, but, about, out

Challenge Words: ajar, fled, fractions, rule, flower

WE ARE IN NEED OF:

Glue sticks

Pencils

Kleenex

Small baggies

I hope everyone has a wonderful week!  I will be sending chaperones for the learning trip another email later today!  Thank you to all that are coming.

Week of April 8th

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend… I sent new guided reading books home today with everyone and some groups received homework that’s due on Friday

For a reward!  :o) 

What we are learning this week:

Reading & Writing: Fables with morals and Organizing your writing with a beginning, middle and end.

Math:  Graphing (collecting data, different types of graphs, etc)

Science: Labeling the parts of a butterfly

Spelling Words: tide, side, bride, nine, spine, mine, who, are, got, two

Challenge Words: outside, pineapple, area, tools, caterpillar

Tomorrow is Book fair lunch with a LOVED ONE…  You may come at 10:20am for book fair shopping and then our lunch begins at 10:50am.

****School supplies for next year can be ordered until June 7^th using this link!

The Website is www.epipacks.com

Our school code is Rob031

FYI ALSO…. The district has been having some issues with emails (sending and receiving), specifically with YAHOO accounts, since last week.  If you know someone in our class that is not getting My emails, please let me know and forward this to them!  Thanks so much! 

I hope everyone has a great week!

APRIL 1st

Hello Parents-

I hope everyone had a great Easter weekend with your families and friends!!!  We had a wonderful weekend!

Here are some things that are coming up:

April 18^th  - 1^st grade Program- @ 6:30 (student arrival will be different) I will let you know when I have that time.

April 17^th- Field trip money ($9.00) and forms are due… Letter and forms will come home tomorrow.

May 2^nd- FIELD TRIP

I will be sending out April’s homework sometime this week.

This week we are learning:

Reading and Writing:

I can understand prepositions and prepositional phrases.

I can make a personal connection to my poetry.  I can use comparisons in poetry.

Math:

I can identify events as certain or impossible.

Science:

I can identify the life cycle of a butterfly.

FOR A SCIENCE ACTIVITY:

We are in need of the following:

Small white navy beans – 1 bag

Small spiral pasta- 1 bag

Small shells pasta- 1 bag

 Small bow tie pasta- 1 bag

*** I need them by Thursday if anyone wants to donate!  THANKS!

HAVE A GREAT WEEK!!!!