English Club Celebration

English Club will be going to Beirne Park on Thursday, May 5^th. This a celebration to the closing of English Club. Please pick up your students at Beirne Park and address is 10630 Country View Dr, Creve Coeur, MO 63141 at 4:45 PM. If you have questions please contact me by email at dhsu@ladueschools.net or by voicemail at 314-983-5913.

April Updates

Kindergarten

- Animals:  needs of animals, animal babies, animal traits.  I also cover farm vs city environment.

- “I like book…”, “I am…”, I have…”  create own books. Create their own pattern book.

- All About - books

First Grade

• Weather
• Plants Life Cycle

Second Grade

• Maps
• Animal classification unit.  
• We are working on persuasive paragraphs.

Third Grade

• Fractions!  
• Plants
• Continuing to work on sentence completion.  We are writing a sentence about a topic and then reviewing the sentence for complete punctuation, spelling, and grammar!

Fourth Grade

-Biomes and Lewis and Clark.

- Government

- Mixtures and solutions.

- Math word problems with fractions

Ladue School District ESOL Picnic

Hello Everyone,

The ESOL Picnic is Saturday, April 23rd

 1:00- 3:00 PM 

It will be held at Spoede Elementary School backfields or in the gym if it rains.

 Information was sent home with your child. It's a free event for your family! There will be games, crafts, food, drinks and a lot of fun. Please fill out the RSVP form, and return it to school with your child if your family is interested in attending.  We hope to see you there.

March Update

Kindergarten

- We are working on writing and how to stretch our writing across the page

- We are sequencing stories and how the stories flows and makes sense

-We are also working on creating our own books

- In reading we are working on understanding the stories and what is being read

First Grade

- We have been working on writing and how we can elaborate and add details to our writing

- We have also been working on famous Americans in social studies

Second Grade

- We are focusing on maps- this includes directions, types of transportation, communication and how to read a map

-We are also working on how to create our own maps and making keys

- Another item we are working on is reading with detail and how to understand what we are reading

- We are learning to summarize what is being read

Third Grade

- We are wrapping up the environmental interactions

- We are working on sentence fluency and creating sentences with correct punctuation and capitalization. Also we are looking into turning a sequence of sentences into a complete paragraph with a topic sentence, supporting sentences and a conclusion sentence

- We will look at fractions and the vocabulary that relates to this topic

Fourth Grade

- We are learning the 6 biomes

- Fractions in math

- Lewis and Clark in social studies 

- Writing is literary essays 

No English Club on Feb. 11th and Feb. 18th

Dear Parents, 

We will NOT have English Club on Feb. 11th and Feb. 18th. We will resume English Club on Feb. 25th. 

January Update

Kindergarten

- winter clothing, weather, what happens to plants and animals, and any other characteristics!

- How to stories and all about for writing

- Dr. Martin Luter King Jr.

- Properties

First Grade

-Writing- opinion/argument unit

-Famous Americans

Second Grade

-Solar System

-Writing-  writing opinions about books.

Third Grade

-Nutrition is our content for the next three weeks. 

-Reviewing the writing process and sentence structure for Fairy Tale Spin Off

- nutrition

Fourth Grade

- A Boy for a Man’s Job

- Rocks and Minerals

- Writing- Historical Events

December Update

Here are a few items we worked on in December:

Kindergarten
-more/less/between
-Christmas/Hanukkah, Diwali, Kwanzaa
-How to stories 
-Creating sight word books 

First Grade
- narratives and how to books
-Native Americans

Second Grade
- informational writing 
-States of Matter

Third Grade
- narrative writing
- Colonies 

Fourth Grade
- opinion writing
-Missouri Regions
- Rocks and Minerals