News from Mrs. Davis

March 31, 2015bstipp@benton.k12.in.us http://mrsdavisdiamonds.weebly.com/

Reading: This week’s reading story is Half Chicken. The genre of this story is a Informational Text. This story has some vocabulary words and words throughout the story that are kind of tricky. Please spend some extra time discussing these words with your student. Please make sure that you read this story with your student at least 2 times at home. If your student is struggling on these tests I would recommend reading it even more! Math: This week we are wrapping up learning about telling time. Although we will revisit time before the year is over just as a review as well as learning about elapsed time. This week we will be learning about A.M. and P.M. We will also spend the rest of this week reviewing telling time and we will have a test on Friday this week. Next week we will begin learning about Measurement!! Spelling- This week all of our Spelling words have either aw,al,o. Vocabulary- This week out skill is Using Context Clues. This means that if a student comes to a word in a sentence that they do not know, they will use the words around it and their prior knowledge to infer (guess) what the word means. We will be using made up words in paragraphs this week to practice this skill.

This Week’s Focus

April 1st- Stem Van here 3:30-4:30April 2nd- Pinterest Club 3:30-5April 3rd- Regular School Day! (was a flex day)April 13th- Spring Pictures!Week of April 27th—Miss Menzie’s Last Week Please visit our class website if you get a chance at http://mrsdavisdiamonds.weebly.com/

Upcoming Field Trips

Upcoming Events

We will be taking two Field Trips during April this year! I wanted to give you all a heads up about when they are because they are back to back. For years all of the 2nd grade classes go to the Fowler Park to participate in Arbor Day activities that will be on Friday, April 24th. Then we will be going to the Columbian Park Zoo in Lafayette on Monday, April 27th. I know that the placement of these two field trips kind of stink that they are back to back and that the Zoo is on a Monday, but this is all that the Zoo had left for us to pick from! The only reason I do not like this is that I will not be able to remind students about bringing a sack lunch for Monday, but I will send out reminders and put it in our newsletter weekly! SACK LUNCH FRIDAY APRIL 24 TH AND MONDAY APRIL 27 TH !!!