The summer countdown continues: there are only 8 days of school left! The last few weeks of school are packed with activities so please refer to the blog and Mrs. Winfree’s Ridgecrest Roar to stay on top of all our upcoming events.
Combined Class Party on the Last Day of School! On the last day of school, the cafeteria is closed so there will be no lunches provided at school. Since school gets out at 12:40 PM on June 6th, the students will be very hungry and in need of some snacks. If you are interested in sending a snack (veggies, juice boxes, fruit, fruit snacks, chips, paper goods, etc.) for the class with your student, please email us or send us a Dojo message to let us know what you will be sending! We are very appreciative of any snacks that you are able to send with your student. Also, we want to make sure that we celebrate all birthdays this year. If we have not had the opportunity to celebrate your student’s birthday, please let us know! It is very important to us that we recognize and celebrate each child’s birthday! The last day of school would be a perfect time to celebrate birthdays! LUNCH CHOICES Monday: No school! Memorial Day! Tuesday: Hawaiian Haystack, Mini Corn Dogs, or Chef Salad Wednesday: French Toast Sticks, Cheesy Nachos, or Tuna Sandwich Thursday: Macaroni and Cheese, Chicken Sandwich, or Taco Salad Friday: Pizza, Burrito, or Turkey Sandwich The final week of school, the cafeteria will be serving a limited number of the following lunches on a first come first served basis. Students may not be able to get their first choice but there will be enough lunches for everyone! Monday: Country Fried Steak, Chicken Drumsticks, Pork Chops, Mini Corn Dogs, Fish Fillet, or WowButter Sandwiches. Tuesday: Calzones, BBQ Chicken Pizza, Pizza (Cheese or Pepperoni), Pizza Rippers (Cheese or Pepperoni), or Pancake on a stick with tater tots. Wednesday: WowButter Sandwiches, Dinosaur Chicken Nuggets, Regular Chicken Sandwiches, Burritos, Orange Chicken, Pretzel, Dutch Waffle, or Pizza (Cheese or Pepperoni). Thursday: No lunch served--early out at 12:40! We will be having a small class party with both green and purple classes combined. Students are welcome to bring snacks to share with everyone: juice boxes, cheese sticks, chips, crackers, clementines, pretzels, etc. WHAT WE ARE LEARNING: ELA: This week, we are continuing to talk about great ideas. We will be addressing a new question of the week. The question is “What can happen when someone has a new idea?" Our story of the week is "The Stone Garden." We will be learning and practicing prepositions and prepositional phrases. This is our last story in reading street. Spelling Words: unhappy, refill, untie, undo, repay, unkind, undress, retell, reopen, rewind, different **, and carry** Chinese: Students are spending the remaining days of school reinforcing all the characters we have learned so far in first grade, including the three units we have previewed for second grade. The final homework packet was sent home last week, but students bring home self-starter worksheets almost daily with reading passages that they can practice with at home! Math: We have finished up topic 14, reasoning with shapes and their attributes. Students have now moved on to topic 15: equal shares of circles and rectangles. We will also be learning about coins and their value for the remaining days of school. Science and Social Studies: Students are continuing to learn about sports and exercise this week, and will also learn about parts of the body and eating healthy, animals in spring time, and reviewing other topics we have learned this year!
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The summer countdown continues: there are only 12 days of school left! The last couple weeks of school are packed with activities so please refer to the blog and Mrs. Winfree’s Ridgecrest Roar to stay on top of all our upcoming events.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION May 21 School Carnival- 5:00 – 8:00 PM May 23 Volunteer Thank You Lunch 11:30-1:00 May 27 Memorial Day – No School June 4 Field Day 1st – 5th Grades June 6 Last Day of School – Very Early release 12:40 (No Breakfast or Lunch Served) PARENTS: On the last day of school, the cafeteria is closed so there will be no lunches provided at school. Since school gets out at 12:40 PM on June 6th, the students will be very hungry and in need of some snacks. If you are interested in sending a snack (veggies, juice boxes, fruit, fruit snacks, chips, paper goods, etc) for the class with your student, please let us know! We are very appreciative of any snacks that you are able to send with your student. Also, we want to make sure that we celebrate all birthdays this year. If we have not had the opportunity to celebrate your student’s birthday, please let us know! It is very important to us that we recognize and celebrate each child’s birthday! The last day of school would be a perfect time to celebrate birthdays! Chinese Summer Camp: The University of Utah’s Confucius Institute is hosting an intensive, week-long Chinese summer camp in July at several locations, including Ridgecrest! Students will participate in a two hour language class in the morning, and receive a cultural lesson in the afternoon with guest teachers from China. Dual immersion students who will be in 2nd through 6th grade this coming school year are welcome to enroll! Please visit the following link for more information: https://continue.utah.edu/youth/chinese-immersion A note about warm weather: the cool spring weather seems to have vanished overnight and we are now enjoying much warmer days! Please remind your student to drink plenty of water during the day and to dress appropriately for the sudden change in temperature. Applying sunscreen before school is encouraged since students spend quite a bit of time outside for recess and other class activities. Students are also welcome to bring their own water bottles from home and keep them at their desks. A BIG THANK YOU! We had such a wonderful field trip last week. We owe a giant thank you to each parent who rode the bus with us and also the parents who met us down there! It was a great time. The students continued to talk about the field trip the remainder of the week saying “That was THE best field trip, ever!” If you have any pictures, please send them to Ms. Mack or Ms. Terry. We are working on getting pictures from parents so we can post them on DOJO! School Carnival is THIS week! On May 21st . It starts at 5 PM and goes until 8 PM. It will be at the park right NEXT to the school. LUNCH CHOICES Monday: Walking Taco, Hamburger, or Grilled Cheese Sandwich Tuesday: Pork Chop Dinner, Mini Corn Dogs, or Chef Salad Wednesday: Teriyaki Chicken, Cheesy Nachos, or WowButter and Jelly Sandwich Thursday: Crunchy Fish Filet, Chicken Sandwich, or Taco Salad Friday: Pizza, Burrito, or Turkey Sandwich Monday: NO SCHOOL. MEMORIAL DAY! Tuesday: Hawaiian Haystack, Mini Corn Dogs, or Chef Salad Wednesday: French Toast Sticks, Cheesy Nachos, or Tuna Sandwich Thursday: Mac & Cheese, Chicken Nuggets, or Taco Salad Friday: Pizza, Burrito, or Turkey Sandwich WHAT WE ARE LEARNING: ELA: This week, we are continuing to talk about great ideas. We will be addressing a new question of the week. The question is “How can a great idea change the way we live?” We will talk about how great ideas have changed how we learn, how we spend our time, how we travel and even how we communicate. This week will be so fun to talk about phones, airplanes, cars, computers and much, much more. We will be reading a biography about Alexander Graham Bell. We will be working on the sequence of a story and we will talk about it in connection to a timeline. We will be studying words with the vowel sound aw and au. We will talk about adverbs. Spelling Words: saw, crawl, law, paw, hawk, draw, straw, jaw, yawn, lawn, through** and science ** Challenge Words: squawk, awesome, awkward, gnaw, and sawdust With the internet challenges last week, we did our weekly test paper/pencil style. Typically, we do this assessment on the computer . If you are wondering how your student is doing on previous assessments, you can go onto skyward and check their grades in English-Language Arts. Chinese: Students are reinforcing characters from unit 2 including: 朋友(friend), 的(possessive particle), 哪 (how/which/where), 这 (this/these), 吗 (question particle for "yes-no" questions). As we continue to work through the final literacy unit, students are learning and reinforcing the following characters: 要 (to want/must), 面 (face, side), 他 (he, him), 她 (she, her), 玩 (to play, to have fun), 跟 (with). This week we will read a new story called "Boys and Girls Are Friends" ("男生跟女生是朋友"). Math: We are still working on mastering topic 14, reasoning with shapes and their attributes. By the end of the week we will move on to topic 15: equal shares of circles and rectangles. We will also be learning about coins and their value for the remaining days of school. Science and Social Studies: Students are continuing to learn about sports and exercise this week, and will also learn about parts of the body and eating healthy! The summer countdown continues: there are only 18 days of school left! The last few weeks of school are packed with activities so please refer to the blog and Mrs. Winfree’s Ridgecrest Roar to stay on top of all our upcoming events.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION The weeks are flying by as we approach the end of the school year—we can’t believe there are only 23 days of school left! The last few weeks of school are packed with activities so please refer to the blog and Mrs. Winfree’s Ridgecrest Roar to stay on top of all our upcoming events. May 9 Traditionz BYU Dancers assembly May 10 Dibels Testing K-2nd grades May 13 Monday Morning Meeting May 16 First Grade field trip May 17 Ridgecrest Runners Marathon Finish Line May 21 School Carnival- 5:00 – 8:00 PM May 23 Volunteer Thank You Lunch 11:30-1:00 May 27 Memorial Day – No School June 4 Field Day 1st – 5th Grades June 6 Last Day of School – Very Early release 12:40 (No Breakfast or Lunch Served) On the last day of school, the cafeteria is closed so there will be no lunches provided at school. Since school gets out at 12:40 PM on June 6th, the students will be very hungry and in need of some snacks. If you are interested in sending a snack (veggies, juice boxes, fruit, fruit snacks, chips, paper goods, etc) for the class with your student, please let us know! We are very appreciative of any snacks that you are able to send with your student. Also, we want to make sure that we celebrate all birthdays this year. If we have not had the opportunity to celebrate your student’s birthday, please let us know! It is very important to us that we recognize and celebrate each child’s birthday! The last day of school would be a perfect time to celebrate birthdays! Chinese Summer Camp: The University of Utah’s Confucius Institute is hosting an intensive, week-long Chinese summer camp in July at several locations, including Ridgecrest! Students will participate in a two hour language class in the morning, and receive a cultural lesson in the afternoon with guest teachers from China. Dual immersion students who will be in 2nd through 6th grade this coming school year are welcome to enroll! Please visit the following link for more information: https://continue.utah.edu/youth/chinese-immersion A note about warm weather: the cool spring weather seems to have vanished overnight and we are now enjoying much warmer days! Please remind your student to drink plenty of water during the day and to dress appropriately for the sudden change in temperature. Applying sunscreen before school is encouraged since students spend quite a bit of time outside for recess and other class activities. Students are also welcome to bring their own water bottles from home and keep them at their desks. FIELD TRIP UPDATE: The first grade field trip is on THURSDAY! We will be heading to the museum at Thanksgiving Point on May 16th! If you are planning on meeting us at the museum, you are still required to sign up as a volunteer through Canyons School District. Here is the link: https://foundation.canyonsdistrict.org/index.php/volunteer. Volunteers who are meeting the first grade classes at the museum will need to arrange their own travel to and from the museum and will have to pay for their own entrance. We will ensure that parents or family volunteers will be in the same group as their students. We can’t wait for our great adventure! Please remember your student’s lunch choice and help them remember! ;) We are so excited! Keep your eyes posted for pictures on class dojo! LUNCH CHOICES Monday: Mini Pepperoni Calozones, Hamburger, or Grilled Cheese Sandwich Tuesday: Breakfast Burrito, Mini Corn Dogs, or Chef Salad Wednesday: Crisp Chicken Drumstick, Cheesy Nachos, or Tuna Sandwich Thursday: School Sack Lunch or Home! It’s our field trip day! Friday: Pizza, Burrito, or Turkey Sandwich Monday: Walking Taco, Hamburger, or Grilled Cheese Sandwich Tuesday: Pork Chop Dinner, Mini Corn Dogs, or Chef Salad Wednesday: Teriyaki Chicken, Cheesy Nachos, or WowButter and Jelly Sandwich WHAT WE ARE LEARNING: ELA: This week, we are reading an expository text titled “Simple Machines.” We will be talking about simple machines all week! What is a simple machine that we can use at home? What is a simple machine that we use at school? The question of the week is “How can a great idea make our lives easier?” We will be studying main idea and details. We will be working on summarizing. We will be learning about the suffixes -er and -or. We will also be learning (and our spelling focus) will be on dipthongs oi and oy. Spelling Words: oil, soil, voice, point, boy, boil, coin, oink, oy, join, against** and heavy**. Chinese: Students are continuing to work on the second unit of second grade material! The characters we are focusing on in unit 2 are: 朋友(friend), 的(possessive particle), 哪 (how/which/where), 这 (this/these), 吗 (question particle for "yes-no" questions). This week, students will begin our final unit for Chinese literacy! The focus characters for unit 3 are: 要 (to want/must), 面 (face, side), 他 (he, him), 她 (she, her), 玩 (to play, to have fun), 跟 (with). This week we will read a story called "Playing in the Water" ("玩水"). Math: We are still working on mastering topic 14, learning about 2D and 3 D shapes. Topic 15 is approaching quickly and we will be learning about equal shares of circles and rectangles. Science and Social Studies: Students are continuing to learn about sports and exercise this week, and will also learn about parts of the body and eating healthy! IMPORTANT INFORMATION
The weeks are flying by as we approach the end of the school year—we can’t believe there are only 23 days of school left! The last few weeks of school are packed with activities so please refer to the blog and Mrs. Winfree’s Ridgecrest Roar to stay on top of all our upcoming events. May 9 Traditionz BYU Dancers assembly May 10 Dibels Testing K-2nd grades May 13 Monday Morning Meeting May 16 First Grade field trip May 17 Ridgecrest Runners Marathon Finish Line May 21 School Carnival- 5:00 – 8:00 PM May 23 Volunteer Thank You Lunch 11:30-1:00 May 27 Memorial Day – No School June 4 Field Day 1st – 5th Grades June 6 Last Day of School – Very Early release 12:40 (No Breakfast or Lunch Served) Chinese Summer Camp: The University of Utah’s Confucius Institute is hosting an intensive, week-long Chinese summer camp in July at several locations, including Ridgecrest! Students will participate in a two hour language class in the morning, and receive a cultural lesson in the afternoon with guest teachers from China. Dual immersion students who will be in 2nd through 6th grade this coming school year are welcome to enroll! Please visit the following link for more information: https://continue.utah.edu/youth/chinese-immersion Family/Student Appreciation: We were overwhelmed by the generosity of students and families for teacher appreciation week. Ms. Terry and Ms. Mack have felt incredibly supported from the beginning of the school year, but wanted to thank you all especially for the incredible display of kindness and appreciation last week. Thank you for your thoughtful words, gifts, the smiles, hugs, and gestures of gratitude. We feel truly blessed to be working with your students and are forever grateful for your ongoing support. THANK YOU for being who you are, and for enabling us to be better teachers with your enthusiastic support at school and at home! It is such an honor to work with your students. We love and appreciate you! A note about warm weather: in typical Utah fashion, the springtime weather is in constant fluctuation between chilly and cool, and very warm or sometimes hot! Please remind your student to drink plenty of water during the day and to dress appropriately for the sudden change in temperature. Applying sunscreen before school is encouraged since students spend quite a bit of time outside for recess and other class activities. Students are also welcome to bring their own water bottles from home and keep them at their desks. Thursdays are still show and tell days! Fridays are still Tiger Pride. Please wear a blue or orange shirt! OR: Tiger Pride Socks. FIELD TRIP UPDATE: The first grade field trip is just around the corner! We will be heading to the museum at Thanksgiving Point on May 16th!. If you are planning on meeting us at the museum, you are still required to sign up as a volunteer through Canyons School District. Here is the link: https://foundation.canyonsdistrict.org/index.php/volunteer. Volunteers who are meeting the first grade classes at the museum will need to arrange their own travel to and from the museum and will have to pay for their own entrance. We will ensure that parents or family volunteers will be in the same group as their students. We can’t wait for our great adventure! HOMEWORK: Homework will be sent home on Monday! Please return it on Friday for comments. LUNCH CHOICES Monday: Whole Grain Soft Pretzel, Hamburger, or Grilled Cheese Sandwich Tuesday: BBQ Chicken Personal Pizza, Mini Corn Dogs, or Chef Salad Wednesday: Country Fried Steak, Cheesy Nachos, or WowButter and Jelly Sandwich Thursday: Spaghetti, Crispy Chicken Sandwich (spicy or regular), or Taco Salad Friday: Pizza, Burrito, or Turkey Sandwich Monday: Mini Pepperoni Pizza Calzones, Hamburger, or Grilled Cheese Sandwich Tuesday: Breakfast Burrito, Mini Corn Dogs, or Chef Salad WHAT WE ARE LEARNING: ELA: This week our story is titled “Dot and Jabber and the Great Acorn Mystery.” The question of the week is: How can we solve mysteries? In phonics, we are going to be studying the /oo/ sound (as in “foot”), and practicing the -ed, -es, -ing endings. (**This week's secret phrase is: "I am brave and kind!" Students may tell this phrase to either teacher and get a prize! Thanks for reading the blog!**) Students will practice using the pronouns “me” and “I” appropriately (“I” is used before the verb and “me” is used after the verb). Chinese: Students are continuing to work on the second unit of second grade material! The characters we will focus on in unit 2 (for the next two and a half weeks) are: 朋友(friend), 的(possessive particle), 哪 (how/which/where), 这(this/these), 吗 (question particle for "yes-no" questions). Math: We wrapped up our unit on telling time to the hour and half hour last week, and are now diving into unit 14 which explores shapes! Donations needed to help make math more concrete during our investigations of 3-D shapes! Marshmallows and toothpicks would be greatly appreciated! Science and Social Studies: We are starting to learn vocabulary for sports and exercise. On Friday May 10th, your student is welcome to bring a picture of their favorite sport or exercise, or a physical object representing that sport to share with the class. The item must fit inside students’ backpacks! Students are not required to bring anything, and are still welcome to talk about their favorite sport or activity. |
TeachersMs. Terry and Ms. Mack are so excited for this year! In Ms. Terry's class, students will speak, read, and write in English. In Ms. Mack's class, students will be speak, listen, read, and write in Chinese. Archives
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