Ms. Davis' Class Newsletter

April

We will continue to have an amazing year of learning, growth and discovery!

We will continue demonstrating our core values: Honesty, Empathy, Accountability, Respect and Tenacity.

Nance Knights Have Heart: Honesty, Empathy, Accountability, Respect, Tenacity

Nance Knights new core values - HEART. We have defined these together as a class and we have discussed how to live by these values every day at school and in our wider community.

Honesty: Telling the truth, doing your own work.

Empathy: Understanding other's feelings, "putting yourself in someone else's shoes"

Accountability: Taking responsibility for your feelings, thoughts and actions.

Respect: Using kind words, allowing others to complete their work, being a good group member.

Tenacity: Doing your best on every assignment in class, not giving up when it's hard.

We have discussed how to live by these values every day at school and in our wider community.

What we are learning!

Reading & Writing: Students will be writing sentences using correct capitalization and punctuation ending. In reading we will be working on focuses on our communities - school, neighborhood and city. We will be comparing our community to others through reading and writing.

Math: Students will be learning different strategies to add and subtract to build fluency in solving equations and word problems.

Social Studies: We are studying Our Government, primarily rules that we have to follow at home and school, laws that must be followed within our city, state and country and our basic human rights.

Science: In science we are learning about the states of matter, and force & motion.

Reminders

Students have homework EVERY NIGHT. All students should be reading and talking about reading for at least 20 minutes per night. They also have a list of spelling words that they will be tested on weekly, and a daily math practice page.