This
will be our last full week together. (Tear)
We will have just three days after that and then it will be summer
vacation. Remember to finish out these
last few days of school strong and not to let any behavior slip. We have been talking more and more about the
7 Healthy Habits and using our friends RJ and Louis to show us ways to help
control our behavior. We have had a
great year and I know we can end on a strong note.
Reading/Phonics/Spelling-
This week in reading we will be working on our fluency. Since we have finished our reading book
series we will be doing a reader’s theater style of reading. The students will be reading scripts in small
groups using their synergy skills in order to improve their sight word
knowledge and reading fluency.
Throughout the week will be reviewing all of the most recent phonics
sounds. This week will also be our final
spelling list. All of the words on this
list are words that we have had in the past.
They go along with all of the past phonics sounds we have studied. The spelling list is posted on our classroom
blog.
Math-
Now that we have covered everything we need to do for our report card we will
have a chance to sharpen some of our skills that we have not used in a
while. This week I plan to make every
day different. We are going to working
on graphing, missing addends, going back to some subtraction, addition word
problems and balancing the scales with addition. I have talked with some of the second grade
teachers here at Oak Hill and they say the biggest thing they can do over the
summer is to practice the basic facts for addition and subtraction.
Grammar/Writing-
This week in grammar we will be reviewing some of the things we have learned
throughout the school year. We are still
working on remembering that every sentence needs a capital letter and ends with
a punctuation mark. We will review
pronouns, when to use I and Me, and reviewing combining sentences. In our writing journals we will be reflecting
on some of the things we learned this year.
We will talk about our favorite games and our favorite subjects.
Junior
Achievement- This week we will be doing Junior
Achievement. A volunteer from the
business world will be coming into our classroom and teaching us the basics of saving
money and why we save as well as what jobs there are and you can be anything
you would like to be. This is a great
program for the students. I know they
will learn a lot.
Related Arts Rotations for 5/13-5/17
Group A- Gym, Music,
Art, Computer, Gym
Group B- Art, Computer,
Gym, Music, Art
Group
C-
Music, Art, Computer, Gym, Music
Group
D- Computer, Gym, Music, Art, Computer
**Please
not that this is a skating week. Be sure
to wear socks on your gym day!!**
FIELD DAY: Field day is scheduled for
Tuesday, May 21st. This is a change from May 22nd.
We felt that we needed to have a rain date in place in the event that we would
have inclement weather. We didn’t want to disappoint our Wildcats by
missing out on this event should we have rain. Thank you in advance to
Jennifer Zimmer, Jennifer Gossett, and our entire PTA volunteers who are
helping to facilitate this day. Please note that on field day that
students will be eating pizza from Papa Johns and our cafeteria will not be
serving any school lunches.
SPRING PICTURES: A friendly reminder that
school pictures are due back as soon as possible. Please send in a check
for your pictures or return the unwanted package. Checks should be made
payable to Inter-State Studio.
Seven Habits for
Highly Effective Families: We
will be hosting a book club for parents interested in learning more about
Covey’s Seven Habits (dates to be announced). You can purchase your book
at Barnes and Noble on June 8th and Oak Hill will benefit from the
sales. This would be a win-win for everyone!
BARNES AND NOBLE DAY: On June 8th Oak
Hill will be hosting a reading book fair at Barnes and Noble. A schedule
of events will be posted on our web site. When making purchases, please
let the cashier know that you would like Oak Hill to benefit from the sales.
KEY CONTRIBUTOR CAMPAIGN: Our Key Contributor Campaign is
still going on. A key can be sponsored for $20, an octave for $150, and a
keyboard for $1,000. Envelopes were sent home when the campaign
began. If you don’t have your envelope any longer, but would still like
to sponsor, please stop by Oak Hill and you can take care of it in the front
office. This would be a wonderful way to honor your child as a plaque
will be permanently displayed in the piano keyboard lab with the student or
family names. Research shows the positive effects that music has on
brain-based learning.
Enjoy
your weekend!
Thanks,
Robert Moreland
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