February 26th Newsletter

 

February 26th , 2024

This week in literacy, we will…

• Know the sound-spellings of words with the r-controlled vowel sound /or/ (or, ore, oar).

• Read irregularly spelled words (open, walk, every, buy).

• Categorize words.

• Read and write words with prefixes (pre and dis).

• Build fluency by reading a story titled, Stores at the Mall. While reading, we will use context to confirm word meanings. We will also answer questions about the story, finding details in the text or illustrations to support our answers.

• Read a poem titled, Horsie, Horsie. When reading, we will identify words with r-controlled vowels and review contractions.

• Participate in Heggerty Phonemic Awareness lessons.

This week in writing, we will…

• Continue working on our non-fiction writing

• Learn about how non-fiction writing sound different from a story and includes a lot of true facts

• Work on including specific and important vocabulary words in our writing

This week in math, we will….

• Practice our fact families with double flap cards

• Play “ I have I  need”

• Solve addition story problems with sums and minuends to 20

• Apply the commutative property of addition to add

• Solve subtraction problems by finding an unknown addend

• Use the relationship between addition and subtraction to add and subtract within 20

• Solve for the unknown in an addition or subtraction equation involving 3 whole numbers

• Practice our double and half facts

This week in social studies we will….

• Learn about the many cultures that shaped America

• Learn about different customs and traditions

Scholastic Book Orders are due on March 9th. Shop our class page: https://orders.scholastic.com/JBVLX

Important Dates to Remember!

• February 29- Boys Donut Event

• March 1- Early Release (1:45 pm)

• February 26-March 1- Read Across America

• February 26- Oh, The Places You'll Go- Bring a picture or item of a place you've traveled

• February 27- Fox in Socks- Wear socks of your favorite character

• February 28- There Is No Friend As Loyal As A Book- Wear clothes to match a friend

• February 29- Cooking Up Some Good Books - We will have a class treat provided to our class -

  please do not send in a treat with your child

• March 1- Readers Are Leaders- Dress as what you want to be when you grow up

• March 16- Winter Carnival

• March 25-April 1- Spring Break