NEWS FROM Little

Broadus
River Elementary
Elementary
Wood
School
South Riding, VA
ROOM 10
8 April 17th 21st
emarsten@k12albemarle.org
elisabeth.marsten@lcps.org Oct 19-23

Ms. Marstens Classroom Newsletter

What We Did, Whats Coming Up:

Language Arts:
Writing: We read the book Airplane by Bryon Barton.
We talked about how fiction books are different from nonfiction books. We explored
some nonfiction books with a partner and shared our favorite picture from it. In our
writing, we chose a fact about our classroom to create a class book for future Kindergartners
to learn about our room!

Sight words: a, and, be, brown, black, blue, can, dad, green, he, her, his, I, if, in, is, it, love, like,
me, mom, my, no, not, orange, of, on, play, pink, purple, red, see, to, the, that, white, with, yellow,
and yes.
Math:
This past week we worked on recognizing a penny and a nickel. We counted pennies and nickels, we even
combined a nickel and some pennies with a sum of 10! Next week we will talk about features of the dime and
count them, as well as the quarter. We will revisit our graphing and sorting unit. We will count eyes, chairs, and
noses of the people in our room and graph it. We will work on strategies to help us keep track of our counting.

Science:
This week we revisited the needs of a plant in order to stay alive. We talked about the parts of a plant and
their function. Next week we will plant some plants in our classroom to observe over time. We will also begin
our recycling, reducing, and reusing unit. We will start by talking about Earth Day (April 22nd) and ways we can
help keep our Earth clean.

Our Schedule Next Week:

Monday 4/24
Dates & Information:
P.E. *please wear tennis shoes
April
4/28 Spirit Day: Crazy Hair Day
Tuesday 4/25 May
P.E. *please wear tennis shoes, & Art 5/1 Inquiry Fair **Parents are invited to check out the whole schools
projects from 5:30-6:30PM
5/11 Kindergarten Musical & Art Performance **Parents and
Wednesday 4/26 siblings are invited at 1:15PM! A flier was sent home previously with
P.E. and Ms. Philbrook specifics. Please let me know if you need another one!
5/18 Chiles Orchard Field Trip
5/19 Coffee with Mrs. Morris in Room 1 from 8:00-8:30AM
Thursday 4/27 5/19 PTO Movie Night 6:30-8:00PM
Guidance & Music 5/29 No School Memorial Day Weekend
June
6/7 Field Day **More information to come
Friday 4/28 6/8 Rain Date for Field Day
Spirit Day: wear our school colors or a BWES shirt! 6/9 Last Day of School **Half Day
Library *bring books back &
P.E. *please wear tennis shoes ***Information about our upcoming field trip was sent
home Thursday. Please read carefully for due dates for
forms and money!***