March 23, 2018

Upcoming Dates: Reminders:

• We will take next week off from reading minutes, math homework and word work.
• All Star Reading:  Your child brought home a letter explaining all star reading this week.  The kids are really excited about this and everyone is working to complete at least 5 innings to attend a baseball game with the Varsity Baseball team. 
• March 26 and 28:  Conferences from 4-8 p.m.  Time slots are 15 minutes and I will do my best to stay on time.  
• March 30-April 6:  Spring Break
• April 11 (Wednesday):  Outdoor Discovery Center.  We will be learning about Native American Lifeways and Voyageurs.  We will be leaving school around 8:30 in the morning and returning around 2:30.  Students will be spending most of the day outdoors and will need to be dressed appropriately.  They will also need a sack lunch and drink.  I am still able to take one more parent volunteer along.  Let me know if you are interested in joining us.

Curriculum Highlights:
Devotions: Aaron, Alyssa, Leila, Gavin, and Gabe led us this week in our morning devotions.  We have enjoyed a lot of creative ways to spend time with God.

Bible:  We have been looking at the story of Easter and taking a couple of weeks to review the stories that led Jesus to the cross.   Each day we do a small craft on an Easter poster, talk about the story, and sing praises as we work.

Literacy:  We are almost done with our nonfiction animal books.  This week we wrote a chapter on how we see God in our animal.  We also wrote our conclusions,  a chapter about the author, and worked on the glossary.  I look forward to sharing these books with you at conferences.

Math: We have begun a new unit on fractions.  This week we began talking about how a fraction is part of a whole, looking at fractions that are larger than one, and identifying fractions on number lines.

Social Studies:  We continue to study the economy of Michigan.  This week we talked about specialization of items Michigan makes as well as interdependence on other states/countries to get goods we need.

MUSIC NOTE FROM MRS. BOER - This is what we have learned this quarter....

  *Three Songs of the Month - Come Now, O Prince of Peace; O Day of Peace, and 

                                                   May the Lord, Mighty God.

  *We learned the elements of reading music (the musical alphabet, lines & spaces, a poem for the lines of treble clef, quarter notes and rests, half notes and rests).

  *We began playing recorders (notes A, B, G) and learned how to take care of them.

  *We learned about the discipline of learning an instrument and practicing (3X3).

  On Sunday, March 25 the Holland Symphony will perform Peter and the Wolf at the DeWitt Performing Arts Center, Zeeland East High School. Pre-concert activities will begin at 2:30 and the concert will begin at 3:30. Tickets are $5 for students Kdg.-college and $20 for adults.

Have a great weekend!
Lynae