Sunday, April 9, 2023

April 11-14th Newsletter

 

April 11th-14th, 2023

This week in literacy, we will…

  • Know the sound-spellings of words with r-controlled vowel sounds (are, air, ear).

  • Read irregularly spelled words (once, upon, yellow, live).

  • Identify elements of a sentence and review the use of quotation marks.

  • Read a poem titled Hickory, Dickory Dare

  • We will read a funny book during shared reading! While reading, we will infer characters' feelings from dialogue, text, and pictures. We will also make predictions based on repeating episodes in the story. 

  • Participate in Heggerty Phonemic Awareness lessons.

This week in writing, we will…

  • Continue writing our realistic fiction stories

  • Write a beginning of our story by introducing the characters and setting

  • Work on the middle of our stories in which we include a problem and begin to have our characters try to solve the problem

  • Use details to describe our characters’ actions

This week in math, we will….

  • Start Unit 7

  • Play two turns to build

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

  • Demonstrate an understanding that multiples of 10 from 10 to 90 refer to some number of tens and 0 one

  • Demonstrate an understanding that 100 can be thought of a bundle or group of 10 tens, called a hundred

  • Compare pairs of 3-digit numbers


This week in social studies, we will…

  • explain why the colonists wanted independence

  • explore what life was like in colonial America

  • discuss why Independence Day is an important holiday


Important Dates to Remember!

  • April 10- No School (Professional Development Day)

  • April 10- PTO Meeting

  • April 11- Fourth Quarter Begins

  • April 22- Father/Daughter Dance

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