April 22nd Newsletter

 

April 22nd, 2024

For an upcoming writing unit, students will be creating a box set for a series they will be writing.  If you haven’t already, please send in a cereal box wrapped with blank white construction or printer paper for your student to color on! Please leave the top of the cereal box open so that your child can put their writing inside of it. Thank you so much for your help with this!

This week in literacy, we will…

• Distinguish long i and long o vowel sounds- i(ld), i(nd) and o(ld).

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

• Build fluency by reading a book titled, Kind Child, Wild Child. While reading, we will compare and contrast. We will also share our opinions about the text and provide reasons from the book to support our ideas.

• Read a poem titled, Five Little Sparrows. We will review vowel teams (ee, ay, ea, ow) and learn about ordinal numbers when reading this poem.

• Review contractions.

• Read a book titled, Antonio and the Firefly, by June Schwartz. When reading, we will make predictions, understand main ideas in the story and infer the characters' feelings using clues from pictures and the text.

• Participate in Heggerty Phonemic Awareness lessons. 

This week in writing, we will…

• Begin a new writing unit on From Scenes to Series, which is a fiction unit

• Learn how to do some serious pretending in our writing

• Include characters and a setting in our fiction stories

• Think of a problem or trouble our main character gets into

This week in math, we will….

• We will take our Unit 7 Test

• Determine the value of a collection of coins

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

• Add a 1-digit number and a 2-digit number and a multiple of 10 of another 2-digit number

• Learn to count coins in a new game “Two Turns to Win”

• Learn about trading in coins - EX: two nickels equals one dime

This week in social studies we will….

• Continue our unit on People and Money

• Learn about work in the past and create a graphic organizer with the information we learn

• Learn about jobs that were important long ago and are still important today

Important Dates to Remember!

• April 22- Earth Day Wear Green

• May 10 - Early Release

• May 23 - Papke/Majinski to Riveredge

• May 24 - Roberts/Staffaroni to Riveredge

• May 27 - No school

• June 5 - Last day of school!