A look at our learning...
Fundations: we started unit 4 this week, which will focus on diagraphs (wh, ch, sh, th, ck), learning more trick words (words that can't be sounded out) and reading sentences fluently. Check your parent packet for trick word flash cards to use at home.
In the photos below we are being diagraph detectives and writing down the words we see that have diagraphs in them.
Shared Reading/Spelling: we read the Big Books Get In and Games We Play. Both books featured our spelling words of the week. I love this time of year because the students are really becoming readers and using more strategies when they come to an unknown word.
Next week's spelling words:
be
me
Writing Workshop: we continued our opinion writing unit this week. There are so many fun books that tie in with this unit of study. This week we read the book I wanna iguana, about a little boy and his mother writing letters back and forth about why the boy should or should not get a pet iguana. In the end, he was able to convince his mother to let him have a pet iguana. We shared our own opinions about a pet we would like to have and wrote our own letters about why we think our parents should let us get that pet!
We also spent time responding to various prompts and writing our opinion about those prompts: favorite food and why, favorite season and why and if they could visit any place where would it be and why. We are working on telling 2-3 reasons why to support their opinion.
Math: this week we worked on subtraction through various games and activities, played an attribute game with shapes and sorting.
Planetarium: we had so much fun visiting the Rock Bridge High School Planetarium with Mrs. Croom's class on Tuesday. We learned about stars, how the sun is a star and constellations, specifically Orion. We are so lucky to have this in CPS! More photos posted on our class Facebook page.
Shakespeare's Pizza Fundraiser Pick-up: BEU families who participated, your pizzas will be ready on Wednesday, March 20th from 5-6 p.m. It is imperative that this time is prioritized (if you can't make it, plan for someone else to pick up your order) as your pizzas need to stay frozen and Shakespeare's can't hold them. Prizes will also be available at that time. If you are able to volunteer to help hand out pizzas, please add your name to the sign-up linked here.
Attendance: (sharing from the office) Our goal at Beulah Ralph is to have at least 90% of our students reach a 90% attendance rate or above by the end of the year. Right now, we're the lowest we've been besides COVID year. Out of CPS's elementary schools, we are currently in 7th place for attendance ratings, but finished last year in 2nd place. There is still time to bring us up before summer! Let's do this! Better attendance gives our students more time to soak up what wonderful educators are teaching them!
(from me) Notice Kindergarten, we are the lowest in the school. While we always want them to stay home when sick (and thank you for keeping them home during that time), they need to be at school at all other times.
Tardies and picking them up early affect their attendance as well, even if just a few minutes late to school or picked up early. We are learning every minute of the day! Even play time is learning and SO important in Kindergarten.
Thank you for helping raise our percentage during this last trimester of school.
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