Monday, May 23, 2022

May 23rd Newsletter

 


May 23rd, 2022


This week in literacy, we will…

  • Use context to understand connected text

  • Understand that words have more than one meaning

  • Read a book titled, Antonio and the Firefly by June Schwartz. While reading, we will adjust our voices to reflect dialogue and punctuation. We will also recognize words ending in -ed to make a word past tense and plural nouns ending in -s. We will discuss the big ideas (messages) in the story. 

  • Infer the main character's feelings and use those inferences while writing in their Reader's Notebooks.

  • Read a poem titled, Little Robin Redbreast

  • Participate in Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Lessons


In Writing this week, we will… 

  • Finish our Narrative Writing Unit

  • Utilize our editing checklist

  • Create cereal book boxes to hold our new Series

  • Share our new Series with partners and the class



In math this week, we will… 

  • Take MAP testing 

  • Understand how long a second, minute, and hour are

  • Compare a second, minute, and hour

  • Learn how to play an hour or bust

  • Tell time to the hour and half hour

  • Introduce telling time to the 5th minute



In Science this week, we will begin a new unit on weather.  We will…

  • Make a season collage with pictures that remind us of each season

  • Fill out a daily weather journal

  • Learn about different types of precipitation


Important Dates to Remember!

May 23 - NEON Day

May 24- MAP Assessment (Math)

May 25- MAP Assessment (Math)

May 26 - Quiet Day - Bring in a stuffed animal for quiet reading

June 1 -Turn Off the Lights Day - Bring a flashlight

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