April 22nd

Mrs.Oparaji’s Team

toparaji@iwcs.k12.va.us

April 22^nd-26th

I hope you had a wonderful Spring Break! The pollen was not my friend this week! Rain, Rain, and Rain some more!!!!!

Parents, Thanks so much for all of the help to make the kids egg hunt a huge success. They were happy and excited!!

We do have a field trip this Friday to Jones Creek for the Ribbon Cutting! Please join up and Farm Day is next Tuesday. I am still in need of chaperones for this field trip. Can you help out?

This is the first year that I have had so many April birthdays and in all of my 20 years of teaching, this is my first year to have a student with the same birthday as me, April 25^th. Caydence is my birthday twin this year!!!!

We use these words to be great citizens:

GREAT

You may start seeing letters in the agenda from the GREAT acronym above. If you see a G from Great is means your child demonstrated growth today, R is demonstrating respect, E is demonstrating empathy, A is demonstrating accountability, and T is demonstrating trustworthiness.

This month is Trustworthiness

Reading: SOLs:

 2.12-Write stories, letters, and simple explanations

2.9-read and demonstrate comprehension of nonfiction text

WE are working on persuasive writing with the last research unit, JOBS!

Some friends are not completing the reading assignment on a nightly basis It will be logged the same as last year, and the expectation is that students read 30 minutes. Also, please have them log in two steps and place your signature beside it. On a daily basis, we should have 4 steps. The time may be broken into intervals. PLEASE SIGN READING LOGS NIGHTLY

We are starting to work on our project for the Expo. We will be creating a Little Library at Jones Creek to show empathy to our community with books.  

WE are starting our Jobs Unit this week!!!

Math: Lines of Symmetry

SOL 2.12    The student will

a)  draw a line of symmetry in a figure; and

b)  identify and create figures with at least one line of symmetry.

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Science: WE are working on  habitats!

Homework

Do your know your power goal?

Monday:  2 steps    

Tuesday:, 2 steps

Wednesday:2 steps 

Thursday:

Friday: Have a great weekend

Important Dates:

·      April 22 - One School, One Book kick-off

• Apr. 23 – IWCS Purple Up for Military Kidsday
• Apr. 24 – Report cards go home
• Apr. 25 – Kindergarten Info Night (6:00 p.m.)
• Apr. 26 – “Fancy Friday” class Spirit Stick competition ; Jones Creek Ribbon Cutting at 12:30
• May 1 – 2nd Grade Expo (6:00 p.m.)
• May 3 – Accountability party
• May 4 – Relay for Life
• May 7 – Kindergarten Expo (6:00 p.m.)
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• Relay for Life Team
• Please consider joining our Carrollton Cardinals Relay for Life team! It’s free to join, and you don’t have to be able to attend the event in order to join and raise money to help out this amazing cause. Please visit www.relayforlife.org, click “join a relay”, then search by zip code; our event is on May 4 at Luter Sports Complex. You can then “join a team,” and select our name. Please contact Jennifer Haslip if you have any questions. jhaslip@iwcs.k12.va.us

WE also have a Relay for Life container in our class for our class to donate money for the cause.