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