June 3rd Newsletter

                                      

June 3rd, 2024

This week in literacy, we will…

• Read a book titled, A Cool Summer Tail, by Carrie A. Pearson. We will discuss important facts and notice the question-and-answer structure of the book.

• Read other summer themed books, including The Night Before Summer Vacation, by Natasha Wing and Blackout by John Rocco.

• Review irregularly spelled words.

• Play a Jeopardy game to review concepts we learned throughout the year.

• Participate in Heggerty Phonemic Awareness lessons.

Important Dates to Remember!

• Bring Back any Library Books

• Return Take Home Books

• June 4 - Betty Brinn Field Trip (We will be back for lunch)

• June 5 - Last day of school! Field Day!

May 28th Newsletter

                                                           

May 28th, 2024

This week in literacy, we will…

• Learn about synonyms and antonyms.

• Identify and describe characters.

• Retell a story by recalling, in order, important details about characters, setting, and events.

• Participate in Heggerty Phonemic Awareness lessons.

This week in writing, we will…

• Finish our From Scenes to Series writing unit

• Make an “About the Author” page

• Share our completed series with our classmates

This week in math, we will….

• Create our own data and graphs

• Practice reading and answering questions with graphs

• Determine more, less, and equal to with graphs 

This week in science we will…. 

• Explore animals on PebbleGo in order to learn more about different types of animals

Important Dates to Remember!

• June 4 - Betty Brinn Field Trip

• June 5 - Last day of school!

May 20th Newsletter

 

May 20th, 2024

This week in literacy, we will…

• Review sound-spellings for ou, ow, au, and aw. 

• Read irregularly spelled words (our, about, done, were).

• Read a poem titled, Little Raindrops. We will review contractions, compound words and reading with expression. 

• Read a book titled, Squawk, by Nicole Walker. We will infer reasons for the main character's actions and feelings. We will also understand big ideas or messages of the story. 

• Participate in Heggerty Phonemic Awareness lessons.  

This week in writing, we will…

• Continue our From Scenes to Series writing unit

• Share our first story with a partner to celebrate the hard work we’ve done!

• Zoom in on our characters and include a lot of descriptive words to tell what the characters are doing

• Include tiny, realistic details in our writing by including adjectives and verbs

This week in math, we will….

• Practice coding in our number corner book with TAD the frog. 

• Start making our paper gliders and recording our flights

• Use fractions such as ⅓ and ½ to help fold our paper gliders

• Compare our glider flights measurements

• Using number clues  to color codes to reveal a secret picture! 

This week in science we will….          

• Continue our Life Cycles unit

• Learn about amphibians, insects and spiders

Important Dates to Remember!

• May 23 - Papke/Majinski to Riveredge

• May 24 - Roberts/Staffaroni to Riveredge

• May 27 - No school

• June 4 - Betty Brinn Field Trip

• June 5 - Last day of school! 

May 13th Newsletter

 

May 13th, 2024

This week in literacy, we will…

• Continue working on reading and spelling words with the long e sound spelled with y, ey, and ie.

• Read and write multisyllabic words.

• Read irregularly spelled words (was, come, want, many). USE WORDS THAT MEET THE NEEDS OF YOUR STUDENTS

• Read a poem titled, The Donkey. We will find words will ey and y spelling patterns.

• Read a book titled, Snail's Big Adventure, by David Earl. We will infer the meaning of events from a snail's perspective.  We will also recognize words with -ed and -ing endings.

• Participate in Heggerty Phonemic Awareness lessons. 

This week in writing, we will…

• Continue our From Scenes to Series writing unit

• Work on including dialogue and action in our writing by unfreezing people and making them move and talk

• Revise our writing to make it even better!

This week in math, we will….

• Play with the change box and determine patterns that are happening when a number goes in the box and a new number comes out!

• Practice coding in our number corner book with TAD the frog. 

• Start making our paper gliders and recording our flights

• Use fractions such as ⅓ and ½ to help fold our paper gliders

This week in science we will….

• Continue our Life Cycles unit

• Learn about fish, reptiles, birds and mammals.

Important Dates to Remember!

• May 13-17- Penny Wars

• May 16 - Mismatch Day

• May 17 - Neon Day

• May 23 - Papke/Majinski to Riveredge

• May 24 - Roberts/Staffaroni to Riveredge

• May 27 - No school

• June 4 - Betty Brinn Field Trip

• June 5 - Last day of school!

May 6th Newsletter

 

May 6th, 2024

This week in literacy, we will…

• Distinguish long e and short e vowel sounds. 

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

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

• Build fluency by reading a book titled, My Super Silly Story. We will identify the humor in the story and use details to tell why. 

• Compare and contrast sentences and phrases.

• Infer a lesson from reading a folktale titled, The Creaky House. We also infer feelings of characters and notice sound words in the text.

• Read a poem titled, Baby Bumblebee.

• Participate in Heggerty Phonemic Awareness lessons. 

This week in writing, we will…

• Continue our From Scenes to Series writing unit

• Begin writing a series of books about our same main character

• Write a lot of different adventures with our character

• Organize the books in our series in an order that makes sense

This week in math, we will….

• Discuss time, specifically seconds, minutes, and an hour

• Sort tasks based on how much time they will take to complete

• Students will be introduced to the “change box” A number goes into the change box and a new number comes out. Students must determine what pattern is happening in the box to get the new number. 

This week in science we will….        

• Begin a new unit on Life Cycles

• Investigate how a plant grows and changes

Important Dates to Remember!

• May 8 - Glow Day - Wear White!

• May 9 - Hat Day

• May 10 - Interesting Fact Day - Bring in a fact to share!

• May 10 - Early Release

• May 13-17- Penny Wars

• May 23 - Papke/Majinski to Riveredge

• May 24 - Roberts/Staffaroni to Riveredge

• May 27 - No school

• June 5 - Last day of school!

April 29th Newsletter

 

April 29th, 2024

If you haven’t sent a baby picture to your child’s teacher, please send one ASAP so your child can participate in Baby Picture Day on May 1st.  Thank you!

This week in literacy, we will…

• Distinguish and know the sound-spellings for long i and long o (ie and oe)

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

• Build fluency while reading a book titled, Moe's Diner. While reading we will infer the characters' feelings and retell important information from the story.

• Identify the elements of a sentence. We will review the use of quotation marks, commas, and capitalization of proper nouns. 

• Read a poem titled, It's Raining. We will review inflectional endings (-ed and -ing) and contractions while reading this poem. 

• Read a book titled, The Strawberry Hunt, by Joan Silver. We will talk about illustrations and print features to evaluate how they help understand information. We ill also discuss the story's setting, and why it's important. 

• Participate in Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Lessons. 

This week in writing, we will…

• Continue our From Scenes to Series writing unit

• Include sparkly words in our fiction stories

• Use spelling strategies to spell tricky words (say the sounds slowly, use snap words, listen for little words inside the big word, use words we know to help us)

• Use a checklist in order for us to set writing goals

This week in math, we will….

• We will finish Unit 7 and start our last unit of the year! 

• Discuss time, specifically seconds, minutes, and an hour

• Sort tasks based on how much time they will take to complete

This week in social studies we will….

• Finish our unit on People and Money

• Complete an inquiry project by creating a marketplace in our classroom. Students will buy, trade and sell good and services to one another. We are so excited for this fun hands on learning activity!

Important Dates to Remember!

• May 1-Baby Picture Day

• May 2- Crazy Socks Day

• 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!