Mrs. Russo’s K-2 News

Week of March 20-24

RELIGION: The children continue to discuss the season of Lent and how they can grow to be more like Jesus in words and actions. We continue to discuss how Jesus gathers friends to help others.

MATH: The children will continue to recognize a whole divided into equal parts; explore halves; understand the concept of equal shares/practice dividing sets into equal groups; estimate/measure length of an object using nonstandard units; estimate/measure distance between objects/around shapes using nonstandard units.

SCIENCE: The children continue to classify and describe the characteristics of living and non-living things.  We will also discuss animals of the world - their characteristics and habitats -  as we celebrate International Week.

LANGUAGE  ARTS: The children continue with our theme Bug Surprises and we’ll read several theme based books to include: Look Closer, Wonderful Worms, Diary of A Worm, The Fearsome Beast, Eeency Weency Spider, The Ants Came Marching. We will also continue to celebrate Dr. Seuss’ birthday during this month by reading a variety of his books.  The children will use pictures and prior knowledge to understand vocabulary, summarize a selection; make predictions; develop vocabulary by discussing challenging words; recognize story characters; understand sentences are made up of words; distinguish between real/make-believe; understand naming words; identify rhyming words; sequence events in a song; recognize number words; anticipate text.

PHONICS: The children will decode short vowel /o/ words; blend /o/ and /t/; decode short vowel /o/ words; read the decodable book The Big Ram; build/read simple one-syllable words with /o/ and /t/; understand that as letters in words change, so do the sounds; recognize upper/lowercase Oo and Pp and match sounds to letters; identify the initial sounds of words; blend /o/ and /p/; build/read -op words; read the decodable book What Can Hop?

HANDWRITING:   The children will trace and write upper/lowercase Oo and -op words.

Friendly Reminders

With all the many activities planned for International Week, the children will not participate in gym on Tuesday and Wednesday, 3/21-22.  Please have your child come dressed in their regular school uniform.  Thank you.

Community Service Project: We are supporting The Faith Food Pantry in Sandy Hook for the remainder of the year.  Thanks to all families who have already sent in donations.  Your support and generosity are most appreciated!

Supplies Needed: Thanks to all families who have generously donated more tissues to our classroom.  Colds and allergies are still running high due to this unpredictable March weather.  Your generosity is most appreciated.

Happy Spring and have a rainbow week!