Sunday, May 5, 2024

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!

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