Mrs.

Hughes April 21, 2017

Phone: 860-4286 For the week of
Email: lyndsey.hughes@ftcsc.k12.in.us April 24-28
Website: www.mrslyndseyhughes.weebly.com
Facebook Group.:Mrs.Hughes 2016-2017 Friends

Important Dates
Specials Schedule Tuesday, April 25 Healthy
Monday: Music Sprouts field trip Bring a
stuffed Animal!
Tuesday: P.E. (Wear Tennis Shoes)
Thursday, April 27 Indianapolis
Wednesday: Art (Library Books are
Zoo Field Trip
Due!)
Friday, April 28School Spirit
Thursday: Library
Day
Friday: Library
Thursday, May 11 8:15-8:40

Homework
RAH Paper
Baggie Books

Announcements
Show and Tell: Bring in an item that begins with or has the long o sound in the middle.
(ex: boat, goat, bow, note, soap, etc.)
On Tuesday, for an activity at St. Francis, your child will need to bring a stuffed animal to school.
This stuffed animal needs to fit in his/her backpack.
Indianapolis Zoo field trip: We will go to the zoo on Thursday, April 27th! Your child will need to bring
a sack lunch on this day! We will eat when we return to school.
Student Council Project: Our schools student council is having one last project to help our commu-
nity. Each grade level is being asked to donate different school supplies to help this years FAST
TRACK event (giving school supplies to those in need). Kindergarten is donating GLUE STICKS. If you
are willing and able, please feel free to send in new glue sticks with your child.
Kindergarten Celebration! A note came home today about the Kindergarten Celebration. It is on
May 11th at 8:15 in the Adams Elementary cafeteria. You are invited to join your child to celebrate
their accomplishments for this school year. Each child will have awards and school work to share
with you that shows how much they have learned this year. Please feel free to bring family to
share in this special event.
 Reading
Skill of the Week: connections within the text; sequencing
Letters: long o
Category Words: Foods Made From Grain
Sight/popcorn words: where, look
Story: Bread Comes to Life and Spider Woman Teaches the Navajo
Vocabulary Words: natural resources, create, designs, weave, knowledge

Introduce function machines

Math
Practice naming numbers to 100
Reinforce addition through dice games
Practicing Counting On as an addition
strategy
Reinforce addition and subtraction symbols
Comparing 2-digit numbers
Share different ways to show the same
number
Re-create pattern block designs

Language Arts/Writing
Writing Traits: Conventions
Using capital letters at the beginning of a sentence
Using punctuation at the end of a sentence
Writing Letters Correctly on the Handwriting Lines
Writing to a prompt

Science/Health Social Studies

Zoo Animals
Earth Day