April 15th Newsletter

 

April 15th, 2024

For an upcoming writing unit, students will be creating a box set for a series they will be writing.  If you could please send in a cereal box wrapped with blank white construction or printer paper for your student to color on we would appreciate it! Please leave the top of the cereal box open so that your child can put their writing inside of it. We would love them by April 19th. Thank you!

This week in literacy, we will…

• Distinguish and know the sound spellings for the r-controlled vowel /ar/ (are, air, and ear).

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

• Read a story titled, The Three Bears: A Retelling. While reading, we will infer the characters' feelings and find details in the text or illustrations to support our inferences. We will also make connections to text. 

• Read a poem titled Hickory, Dickory, Dare.

• Read multisyllabic words. 

• Participate in Heggerty Phonemic Awareness lessons.

This week in writing, we will…

• Finish our non-fiction books.

• Share our non-fiction books with our classmates.

This week in math, we will….

• Continue to learn about objects that represent numbers

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

• Solve story problems involving addition of 3 whole numbers whose sums is less than or equal to 20

• Apply the commutative and associative properties of addition to add

• Use strategies to add with sums to 20

• Demonstrate an understanding that the length measurement of an object is the number of same-size length units that span it with no gaps or overlaps

This week in social studies we will….

• Continue our unit on People and Money

• Learn about the jobs people do

• Learn about how work has changed over the years

• Learn about volunteers and how they make the world a better place

Important Dates to Remember!

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

• April 19 - No school - Professional Development for Teachers

• April 19 - Scholastic Book Orders Due

• 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!