Kinder

Kindergarten is getting close to wrapping up our first science and social studies units! In science we learned about our 5 senses and in social studies we learned about how to be good citizens. Next up is seasons/weather and our community!

First Grade

Hello families!

First grade has started W.I.N. ( What I Need ) Time this month. This program and time is designed to support our readers exactly where their Reading level is at. They started strong and reinforcing the skills needed to become successful readers. It is very important to keep the momentum going at home by practicing their oral reading fluency, reading nonsense words and sight word recognition. Remember “Readers are Leaders”.

Second-grade

2nd grade, we are working hard on understanding how a character's point of view changes throughout a story. We are also practicing identifying elements of a story, which helps us retell major events. In phonics, we are focusing on vowel teams such as ee, oe, oa, and igh. It has been really fun reading stories with words that have our vowel teams, as we are now professionals at identifying them and the sounds they make! We are closer and closer to becoming fluent, expressive readers because of it! Lastly, we have been applying what we know about addition and subtraction and using different strategies that make sense to our brains to solve more complex problems. As we close out the end of the first Quarter of 2nd grade and move into the second, we are overwhelmingly grateful for YOU, our loving and involved families. Thank you for your steadfast support and kindness.

Third Grade

Things have been exciting over in third grade! We are wrapping up identifying our reading challenges and writing an informational essay. We will be moving on to reading and identifying parts of narrative text. In math, we will be wrapping up our area unit. We will be focusing on adding and subtracting while showing an understanding of place value. In social studies, we will be diving into Arizona’s history. We are looking forward to seeing you all at parent/teacher conferences!

Students are working on their motor development skills such as running, skipping, jumping, and walking) in game-like activities.

In Art, we are finishing up our neurographic art. We will be learning about first perspective portraits. After the lesson, we will be able to draw a landscape using a vanishing point and also apply one of our previous lessons on 3-D shapes to the drawing. Attached is the neurographic art we just finished.