Ms. Kirkpatrick’s Newsletter
April 5-8, 2010
Classroom News
I hope everyone had a delightful Easter weekend remembering Christ’s resurrection. We had a fun party with lots of yummy snacks. During the egg hunt, the students gathered their own eggs with mementos of the resurrection with correlating Bible verses.
I would like to thank all the prayers that have gone up on my family’s behalf, especially my little brother Corey’s. It is such a peaceful feeling to know that I am surrounded by loving Christians who can lift me up in prayer during times of need. I truly feel blessed.
Our Studies
In celebration of Easter, the students colored a worksheet by vowel sounds. Some students had to differentiate long and short vowel words while others practiced differentiating words by short vowel sounds.
Similarly, in math the students did addition and/or subtraction equations and colored the equations by the code. The students also played a memory game with Easter pictures. Last week, the students also did several worksheets that reviewed telling time to the hour and half hour.
We gathered in a circle and the students listened to me read the resurrections story as they passed around the contents of the Resurrection Eggs. They were all very eager to get their turn to touch the items.
In history, we studied the War of 1812. The students had index cards with key words from the lesson. When I discussed their word, they stood up.
The students practiced writing the letter r. They practiced spelling their spelling words by writing the letters on eggs and gluing them in order. In grammar, we concluded our study on pronouns. The students took turns picking the correct pronoun needed to complete the sentence.
We are still working on painting Water Lilies and Japanese Bridge by Monet. The students got to mix green with white and black to made different shapes of green. Hopefully we will finish it this week and hang it in the gallery in the hallway.