May 1st Newsletter

 

May 1-5, 2023

This week in literacy, we will…

• Distinguish long e and short e vowel sounds.

• Know vowel team sound-spellings for long e (y, ey and ie).

• Read irregularly spelled words (also, myself, off and seven).

• Read The Creaky House by Betty Riggs during shared reading. While reading, we will notice words that represent sound (creaked, ticked, honked), hear initial consonant blends, and notice word endings (-ed and -ing). After reading, we will discuss the setting and why it is important, and infer a "lesson" from the story.

• Read a poem titled, Four Seasons. We will use this poem to learn about adjectives and words with the long e sound-spelling (y).

• Sort words by categories and attributes.

• Participate in Heggerty Phonemic Awareness lessons.

This week in writing, we will…

• Start a new unit on poetry

• Learn about what poetry is and why it’s important

• Write poems using our senses

This week in math, we will….

• Take the Unit 7 test

• Determine the value of a collection of coins

• Count quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies

• Learn about money in the game “Two turns to win”

• Read a graph involving money

• Learn about trading money ex: I can use a dime or two nickles

This week in social studies, we will…

• Explore different holidays and why they are important.

• Explain why we celebrate different holidays in our country.

• Engage in conversations about important people and events. 

• Write an invitation to a holiday celebration, explaining why and how the holiday is celebrated. 

Important Dates to Remember!

• May 8 - Crazy Sock Day

• May 12 - Glow Day - Wear White!

• May 12 - Early Release Day - Students will be dismissed at 1:45pm

• May 15 - Hat Day

• May 16 - Interesting Fact Day - Bring an interesting fact to school to share with your classmates!

• May 16 - Field Trip to Riveredge - Dress for the weather!

April 24th Newsletter

 

April 24-28th, 2023

This week in literacy, we will…

• Distinguish long i and long o sounds.

• Know sound-spellings for long i and long o (ie and oe).

• Read irregularly spelled words (number, today, special, over).

• Review the use of quotation marks, commas, and capitalization of proper nouns.

• Read The Strawberry Hunt, by Joan Silver. While reading, we will discuss personal connections to the characters and events. We will also talk about the story's setting and why it's important.

• Write a response to reading.

• Read a poem titled, Sing a Rainbow, and locate color words in the poem. 

• Use multiple strategies to figure out word meanings.

• Participate in Heggerty Phonemic Awareness lessons.

This week in writing, we will…

• Finish writing our realistic fiction series

• Using time words in our writing so that our readers understand what happened first, next and last

• Revise and edit our stories, using a checklist

• Create an “About the Author” page

• Make a special box for our realistic fiction book series

This week in math, we will….

• Solve addition problems to sums within 20 

• Apply the commutative and associative properties of addition

• Use models of benches, flower pots, and fences to add and understand representations

• Mentally find ten more and ten less than a given number

This week in social studies, we will…

• Explore what monuments are and why they are important.

• Describe what monuments help us to remember.

• Explain which monument would be the best to visit.

• Draw and write about a monument.

Important Dates to Remember!

• April 24 - Look for the ABC Countdown sheet to come home in your child’s red folder!  There are a lot of important dates on it!

• May 1 - Email a baby picture of your child to your child’s teacher on or before May 1st

April 17th Newsletter

 

April 17th-21st, 2023

For our upcoming writing unit, students will be creating a box set for a series they will be writing.  If you could please send in a cereal box wrapped with white construction or printer paper for your student to color on we would appreciate it! Please leave the top of the cereal box open. We would need them by April 21st.

This week in literacy, we will…

• Distinguish long i and long o vowel sounds.

• Know sound-spelling for long i and long o (-ild as in child, -ind as in kind, and -old as in cold).

• Read irregularly spelled words (even, never, most, another).

• Review contractions and the elements of a sentence.

• Distinguish shades of meaning among closely related words (big, huge, gigantic).

• Read a poem titled, The Wise Old Owl.

• Read a realistic fiction story titled Antonio and the Firefly, by June Schwartz. While reading, we will make predictions, understand the big idea of the story, and infer the main character's feelings. We will also recognize words with -ed endings and plurals ending in -s and -es. 

• Write a response to reading.

• Participate in Heggerty Phonemic Awareness lessons.

This week in writing, we will…

• Continue writing our realistic fiction stories

• Learn about verbs and make sure that we are going to describe characters’ actions by using exciting and interesting verbs

• Add dialogue into our stories using speech bubbles and quotation marks

• Show, don’t tell, the reader how the characters are feeling

This week in math, we will….

• Read Hanzel and Gretel and use their breadcrumb path math to help us count by 1’s, 5’s, and 10’s.

• Use representations to help us count by 1’s , 5’s, and 10’s 

• Count to 120, starting with any number less than 120, including 0 or 1

• Read and write numerals to 120

• Count by 5s and 10s to 100

• Add a 1-digit number and a 2-digit number

• Mentally find the number that is 10 more or 10 less than a given 2-digit number, without counting. For example: What is ten more than 53, ten less than 53, etc. 

This week in social studies, we will…

• Explore symbols that stand for our country and states.

• Describe ways we show respect for our country.

• Engage in conversations about symbols and what they mean.

• Draw our favorite symbol and write about why it's our favorite.

Important Dates to Remember!

• April 17th-April 21st- Stuff the Bus (bring in non-perishable food items for the Saukville food pantry)

• April 21st - Wear Green/ Nature for earth day

• April 22- Father/Daughter Dance

April 11-14th Newsletter

 

April 11th-14th, 2023

This week in literacy, we will…

• Know the sound-spellings of words with r-controlled vowel sounds (are, air, ear).

• Read irregularly spelled words (once, upon, yellow, live).

• Identify elements of a sentence and review the use of quotation marks.

• Read a poem titled Hickory, Dickory Dare. 

• We will read a funny book during shared reading! While reading, we will infer characters' feelings from dialogue, text, and pictures. We will also make predictions based on repeating episodes in the story. 

• Participate in Heggerty Phonemic Awareness lessons.

This week in writing, we will…

• Continue writing our realistic fiction stories

• Write a beginning of our story by introducing the characters and setting

• Work on the middle of our stories in which we include a problem and begin to have our characters try to solve the problem

• Use details to describe our characters’ actions

This week in math, we will….

• Start Unit 7

• Play two turns to build

• Demonstrate an understanding that the digits in a 2-digit number represent amounts of tens and ones

• Demonstrate an understanding that multiples of 10 from 10 to 90 refer to some number of tens and 0 one

• Demonstrate an understanding that 100 can be thought of a bundle or group of 10 tens, called a hundred

• Compare pairs of 3-digit numbers

This week in social studies, we will…

• explain why the colonists wanted independence

• explore what life was like in colonial America

• discuss why Independence Day is an important holiday

Important Dates to Remember!

• April 10- No School (Professional Development Day)

• April 10- PTO Meeting

• April 11- Fourth Quarter Begins

• April 22- Father/Daughter Dance