Helpful Highlights
HANGER BOOK REPORT
WOW!!! Great job 2nd Grade on your reports! We were really impressed with your creativity! Thank you for the time and effort you put into your work. It truly showed - job well done!
CHANGES TO BIBLE TEST
We are now taking Bible Verse tests with no word bank. Words WILL NOT be marked wrong for misspellings; however, the missing words must be close to the correct spelling.
HOPE TO SEE YOU TONIGHT!| Pops in the Park:
All Lower School will be singing in our Pops in the Park concert! Bring your blankets or lawn chairs and enjoy dinner on the lawn while our students sing in this spectacular open-air event. Our K3 - K5 will be presenting a Barnyard Moosical, while our 1st - 4th graders will be singing ‘POP’ular movie songs like You Got a Friend in Me from Toy Story! Joyful Voices will be singing two special songs.
Location | NCCS Softball Field
Date | Friday, April 30, 2021
Time | Tentative Schedule
5:30 - Families can begin arriving to set up blankets and chairs and enjoy a picnic dinner. Bring a picnic with you or purchase food from PTF, who will be offering food options. (More details in email from the Lower School office).
6:10 - K3 - K5 students meet
6:30 - K3 - K5 students & Joyful Voices perform
7:00 - Intermission & 1st - 4th grade students meet
7:20 - 1st - 4th grade students & Joyful Voices
8:00 - End
MAY 7th: FIELD DAY / TEACHER APPRECIATION
Students will enjoy a morning of fun activities planned by Coach Konchak. This will be a half-day, dismissing at 11:15, in honor of Teacher Appreciation Week. Students should wear their Lower School green t-shirt and tennis shoes. Shorts and hats are permitted. If you want your child to wear sunscreen, it must be applied at home. Looking forward to a fun day!
Loving Learning
Right now, we are loving learning about:
Bible - We will continue our study of the last part of Moses’ life, as the Israelites’ journey nears the Promised Land. Our lessons will include: The Twelve Spies, The Rebellion of Korah, Moses Strikes the Rock, and The Serpent of Brass.
Phonics / Spelling - We will begin our next list focusing on /are/, /ure/, /ore/.
Grammar / Creative Writing - We will continue our writing unit: Persuasive Writing. This week we will be in the Revising, Proofreading, and Publishing stages. We are using the acronym: OREO (Opinion, Reasons, Explanation, and restate your Opinion). O - state your opinion, R - give 3 reasons to support your opinion, E - explain why the reader should get on board with your opinion, O - restate your opinion.
Reading - This week we will continue Unit 7: Cause and Effect. A review will come home on Thursday for the test on Tuesday, May 11th.
Comprehension Focus: Cause and Effect
Pattern Statement: One thing can make another thing happen.
Visual Tool: Flow Chart
SPECS Logs: Reader’s Response, Visual Tool, Reflection (Today, I learned…..)
Vocabulary: aeronaut, waded, carriage, acrobats, express train, crouch, jolt, piglets, aloft, altimeter
Math - We will wrap up Unit 8: Geometry and Arrays. The Unit 8 Test will be on Wednesday, May 5th. On Thursday, a Cumulative Test Review will be sent home. The Cumulative Test will be on Tuesday, May 11th.
Social Studies - We will wrap up Unit 2 with the Test on Tuesday, May 4th. Next, we will be learning about “Georgia at Work.” The focus will be on making choices, weighing costs / benefits or the pros / cons, consumers / producers, and discussing how our lives will either make a good impact or a bad impact and how we want to leave the world a better place.
Save the Date
May 7- Field Day and Half Day of School for Teacher Appreciation dismissing at 11:15
May 24 - LS Awards Ceremony in Gym @ 1:30 (parents and grandparents invited)
May 25 - Last Day of School for K3-2nd grade
