Week of April 1st-5th 2013

Our musical is coming together and the students love practicing on the stage with the microphones.  I am sure you will be impressed and enjoy how cute they all are!  Remember the performance is on Thursday, April 18th at 6:30!

New pictures are on Flickr.  Make sure you go directly to the blog by clicking "The Lobster Class" words above this post.  From the blog site you can click on the Flickr link to view the pictures.

 THIS WEEK WE LEARNED ABOUT:

• centimeters
• pattern block shapes 
• vowel teams:  ea, oa, ai, ay, ee
• making healthy eating choices
• finding facts in fictional stories

SOME ACTIVITIES WE DID:

• made and tasted a delicious spinach shake, pictures are on Flickr and the recipe is below (Thank you to the Gorman family for introducing this recipe to us!)
• rehearsed for our musical
• finished Free the Horses, each student received a toy horse from Mrs. Griffith
• played Tric Trac
• completed many assessments that I will share with you at our conference

Spinach Shake
1 banana
5 ounces of frozen spinach
1 cup of frozen blueberries
0.5 cup unsweetened soy/almond milk/yogurt (we used strawberry yogurt)
0.5 of pomegranate juice or other unsweetened fruit juice (we used cranberry juice)
2 tbs. of ground flax seeds

Blend all ingredients in a high powered blender until smooth and soft!  Enjoy!

REMINDERS:
Parent Conferences: Wednesday, April 10th and 17th
Dismissal is at 12:50!
Musical, Character Matters:  April 18th at 6:30.  Please drop your child off at the classroom no earlier than 6:15 and please find a seat in the cafeteria. The side doors by the music room will be open.  

VOLUNTEERS FOR NEXT WEEK:
Monday, April 8th:  Mrs. Moores, not until 11:00 due to our musical practice
Tuesday, April 9th:  Centers from 9:45-11:30- Mrs. Ducharme and Mrs. Ireland