Saturday, April 6, 2024

April 8th Newsletter

 

April 8th, 2024


This week in literacy, we will…

  • Distinguish and know the sound-spellings for the complex vowel /o/ sound (au, aw, alk, alt and all).

  • Read irregularly spelled words (been, before, pretty, warm).

  • Build fluency while reading a book titled, A Walk in the Park. While reading, we will make predictions and retell important information from the text. 

  • Read and write words with inflectional endings (-s, -ing, and -ed).

  • Read a poem titled, A Caterpillar Crawled. We will read words with /aw/ sounds, identify rhyming words and review the purpose of quotation marks.

  • Read a book titled, Scrunch the Caterpillar, by Stephen Krensky. While reading, we will notice words with inflectional endings. We will also identify how and when characters change and learn a lesson in the story. 

  • Participate in Heggerty Phonemic Awareness lessons.

This week in writing, we will…

  • We will continue working on our non-fiction books.

  • Do our own research on our topics using non-fiction books as well as an online resource called PebbleGo.

  • Add a glossary to our non-fiction books!


This week in math, we will….

  • We will be reading the story of Hansel and Gretel

  • We will be using different objects to represent numbers

  • Practice counting by 1s, 5s, and 10s. 

  • Play Race to Zero

  • Use concrete models and drawings to subtract a 2-digit multiple of 10 from an equal or greater 2-digit multiple of 10

  • Relate strategies for subtracting a 2-digit multiple of 10 from an equal or greater 2-digit multiple of 10 to written methods

  • Use written numbers and symbols to represent strategies for subtracting a 2-digit multiple of 10 from an equal or greater 2-digit multiple of 10

  • Explain the reasoning behind a strategy used to subtract a 2-digit multiple of 10 from an equal or greater 2-digit multiple of 10

This week in social studies we will….

  • Begin a new unit on People and Money

  • Learn about why people work

  • Learn about trading and what it means to make money

  • Learn about the difference between wants and needs


Important Dates to Remember!

  • April 8- PTO Meeting

  • April 8 - May - Green Team Sneaker Drive Fundraiser

  • April 8-12- Stuff the Bus Food Drive

  • April 12- Wellness Night

  • April 16- Donuts with Darlings (Girls PTO Breakfast Event)

  • April 19 - No school - Professional Development for Teachers

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