April 1st Newsletter

 

April 1st, 2024

This week in literacy, we will…

• Blend sounds to produce words.

• Review sound-spellings for long vowel teams and r-controlled vowels.

• Read a story titled, The Right Spot, by Judy Gifford. We will discuss the characters, problems, and events in the story. We will also make personal connections and infer the author's purpose.

• Read a poem titled, Sing a Rainbow. 

• Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details. 

• Build fluency when reading books containing long vowel teams. These books are titled, Jean's Team, Gail's Snail, Toads, and Sail Boats.

 

This week in writing, we will…

• Continue working on our non-fiction writing

• Use a rubric to revise and edit our non-fiction books independently and with a partner

• Use books and online resources to research our topics in order to help us get new ideas and learn new things

This week in math, we will….

• Start Unit 7 

• Take Unit 7 pretest

• Count by 10s to 100

• Group and count objects by 10s

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

• Demonstrate an understanding that 10 can be thought of a bundle or group of 10 ones, called a ten

• 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

This week in science we will….

• Continue our weather unit

• Learn about weather vanes, windsocks and rain gauges

Important Dates to Remember!

• April 1st - No school - Records Day

• April 8-12- Stuff the Bus Food Drive

• April 12- Wellness Night

• April 19 - No school - Professional Development for Teachers

March 18th Newsletter

 

March 18th, 2024

This week in literacy, we will…

• Distinguish and know the sound-spellings for the diphthong /oi/.

• Read irregularly spelled words (four, any, better, only).

• Read a book titled, Join a Club. We will retell the main events from the story and share our opinion about clubs we read about in the story.

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

• Read and write multisyllabic words. 

• Read a book titled Zip, Zip, Zip, by Andrea Young. While reading, we will notice and talk about important information in a nonfiction text. 

• Read a poem titled, Four Seasons. We will identify adjectives in the poem.

• Participate in Heggerty Phonemic Awareness lessons.

 

This week in writing, we will…

• Continue working on our non-fiction writing

• Learn about how to write a strong introduction and conclusion in our non-fiction books

• Learn about transition words and make sure we are including them in our books

This week in math, we will….

• Compare pairs of 2-digit numbers

• Add with sums to 100

• Explain the reasoning behind a strategy used to add with sums to 100

• Express the length of an object as a whole number of units

• Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them

• Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others

• Compare pairs of 2-digit numbers, and use >, =, and < symbols to record the comparisons

This week in science we will….

• Continue our weather unit

• Learn about the four different types of precipitation: rain, snow, sleet and hail and the type of weather that happens with each of them

• Learn about meteorologists and weather tools

Important Dates to Remember!

• March 22 - 3rd Quarter Ends

• March 25-April 1- Spring Break

• April 2 - 4th Quarter Begins

March 11th Newsletter

 This week in literacy, we will...

• Distinguish and know sound-spellings for the diphthong /ou/.
• Read irregularly spelled words (after, pull, goes, laugh).
• Read a book titled, The Parade is in Town. While reading, we will use details from the text to infer the characters' feelings and provide text evidence to support our inferences. 
• Read and write compound words.
• Review contractions. 
• Read a poem titled, The Itsy, Bitsy Spider. We will identify high frequency words and words with /ou/ sounds in the poem. 
• Read a book titled Zoom In and Out, by Amanda Yskamp. While reading, we will infer the writer's purpose and message. We will also make connections between the body of the text and features.
• Participate in Heggerty Phonemic Awareness lessons.

 This week in writing, we will...

• Continue working on our non-fiction writing.

• Add drawings, labels, and captions to our writing in order to provide additional information for our readers.

 

This week in math, we will...

• Compare pairs of 2-digit numbers using <, =, and > symbols.

• Add with sums to 100.

• Explain the reasoning behind a strategy used to add with sums to 100.

• Express the length of an object as a whole number of units.

 

This week in science, we will...

• Start a new unit on weather.

• Learn about the four seasons.

• Learn about the four different types of precipitation.

 

Reminders and Upcoming Events:

• March 11- PTO Meeting
• March 16- Winter Carnival
• March 25-April 1- Spring Break
• April 2- 4th Quarter Begins and School Resumes

March 4th Newsletter

 

March 4th, 2024

This week students are starting their maple syrup activities with the Thorson Green Squad! They will all be going into the school forest to tap a maple tree this week. Please wear appropriate footwear and clothing! I am predicting it will be muddy! 

Our tapping day is March 7th

This week in literacy, we will…

• Distinguish short oo and long oo vowel sounds.

• Know sound-spellings for short oo and long oo.

• Read irregularly spelled words (about, write, word, done).

• Read a story titled, Books, Books, Books. While reading, we will build fluency and use context to confirm word meanings. Finally, we will answer questions about the book and find details in the text or illustrations to support our ideas.

• Read and write words with suffixes (ly and y).

• Read a poem titled, Moon, Moon. While reading, we will identify words that rhyme and highlight words with long oo sounds. 

• Read a book titled, Woof! Woof! by Armand Benedict. We will retell major events from the story and make predictions about what we think will happen next.

• Participate in Heggerty Phonemic Awareness lessons. 

This week in writing, we will…

• Continue working on our non-fiction writing

• Learn about adjectives and how we can expand our sentences and make them stronger by adding describing words

• Organize our writing by grouping facts together that go together

• Create a table of contents and include headings in our non-fiction writing

This week in math, we will….

• Solve addition story problems with sums to 20 involving situations of adding to and putting together, with unknowns in all positions

• Use strategies to add with sums to 20

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

• Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others

• Solve equations and determine if they are true or false

This week in social studies we will….

• Learn about traditions and how they bring us together

• Learn about respecting differences so we are able to get along with each other

Important Dates to Remember!

• March 16- Winter Carnival

• March 22 - 3rd Quarter Ends

• March 25-April 1- Spring Break

April 2 - 4th Quarter Begins