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

February 26th Newsletter

 

February 26th , 2024

This week in literacy, we will…

• Know the sound-spellings of words with the r-controlled vowel sound /or/ (or, ore, oar).

• Read irregularly spelled words (open, walk, every, buy).

• Categorize words.

• Read and write words with prefixes (pre and dis).

• Build fluency by reading a story titled, Stores at the Mall. While reading, we will use context to confirm word meanings. We will also answer questions about the story, finding details in the text or illustrations to support our answers.

• Read a poem titled, Horsie, Horsie. When reading, we will identify words with r-controlled vowels and review contractions.

• Participate in Heggerty Phonemic Awareness lessons.

This week in writing, we will…

• Continue working on our non-fiction writing

• Learn about how non-fiction writing sound different from a story and includes a lot of true facts

• Work on including specific and important vocabulary words in our writing

This week in math, we will….

• Practice our fact families with double flap cards

• Play “ I have I  need”

• Solve addition story problems with sums and minuends to 20

• Apply the commutative property of addition to add

• Solve subtraction problems by finding an unknown addend

• Use the relationship between addition and subtraction to add and subtract within 20

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

• Practice our double and half facts

This week in social studies we will….

• Learn about the many cultures that shaped America

• Learn about different customs and traditions

Scholastic Book Orders are due on March 9th. Shop our class page: https://orders.scholastic.com/JBVLX

Important Dates to Remember!

• February 29- Boys Donut Event

• March 1- Early Release (1:45 pm)

• February 26-March 1- Read Across America

• February 26- Oh, The Places You'll Go- Bring a picture or item of a place you've traveled

• February 27- Fox in Socks- Wear socks of your favorite character

• February 28- There Is No Friend As Loyal As A Book- Wear clothes to match a friend

• February 29- Cooking Up Some Good Books - We will have a class treat provided to our class -

  please do not send in a treat with your child

• March 1- Readers Are Leaders- Dress as what you want to be when you grow up

• March 16- Winter Carnival

• March 25-April 1- Spring Break

February 19th Newsletter

 

February 19th , 2024

This week in literacy, we will…

• Know sound-spelling of words with the r-controlled vowel sound /ur/.

• Read irregularly spelled words (your, because, always, want).

• Identify the elements of a sentence. 

• Review the use of quotation marks and capital letters for proper nouns. 

• Read The Giraffe, by Cordelia S. Finn. We will infer the author's purpose for writing this nonfiction book, and make connections among texts by noting similarities. 

• Read a poem titled, Little Bird. When reading the poem, we will identify words with r-controlled vowel sounds. We will also identify the function of quotation marks, and brainstorm synonyms for the word "cried".

• Participate in Heggerty Phonemic Awareness lessons.

This week in writing, we will…

• Begin a new unit on Informative Writing

• Learn and understand the features of the nonfiction genre

• Make a list of topics we know a lot about (animals, weather, seasons, habitats, important places/people, machines or things that we use every day)

• Begin planning and drafting a nonfiction informational book

This week in math, we will….

• Start Unit 6 of math

• Using penguins we will solve different types of word problems involving subtraction and addition 

• Determine what information is important in word problems

This week in social studies we will….

• Begin a new unit on Past and Present 

• Explore what we can learn from life long ago

Scholastic Book Orders are due on March 9th. Shop our class page: https://orders.scholastic.com/JBVLX

Important Dates to Remember!

• February 29- Boys Donut Event

• March 1- Early Release (1:45 pm)

• February 26-March 1- Read Across America

• February 26- Oh, The Places You'll Go- Bring a picture or item of a place you've traveled

• February 27- Fox in Socks- Wear socks of your favorite character

• February 28- There Is No Friend As Loyal As A Book- Wear clothes to match a friend

• February 29- Cooking Up Some Good Books- We will have a class treat provided to our class - please do not send in a treat with your child

• March 1- Readers Are Leaders- Dress as what you want to be when you grow up

March 16- Winter Carnival

February 12th Newsletter

 

February 12th, 2024

This week in literacy, we will…

• Distinguish the r-controlled vowel sound /ar/.

• Know the sound-spelling of words with the r-controlled vowel /ar/.

• Read irregularly spelled words (work, again, eight, two).

• Identify the elements of a sentence and review capitalization of proper nouns.

• Read a poem titled, Hearts. We will identify color words, rhyming words, and r -controlled vowels in the poem.

• Read a book titled Garden Helpers, by Charlotte Rose. While reading, we will notice words with consonant blends and compound words. We will also talk about important information in a nonfiction text.

• Participate in Heggerty Phonemic Awareness lessons.

This week in writing, we will…

• Continue sharing our how-to presentations

This week in math, we will….

• Create 3-D triangular prisms

• Play shape riddles

• Sort and Graph different 2D shapes based on attributes

This week in social studies we will….

• Work on an American Symbol poster.  The students will chose an American symbol we’ve learned about and create a poster including what it represents and fun facts about it

Important Dates to Remember!

• February 12- PTO meeting

• February 14-Valentine’s Day Celebration 

• February 17- Fancy Dance

• February 29- Boys Donut Event

• March 1- Early Release (1:45 pm)

• February 26-March 1- Read Across America

• February 26- Oh, The Places You'll Go- Bring a picture or item of a place you've traveled

• February 27- Fox in Socks- Wear socks of your favorite character

• February 28- There Is No Friend As Loyal As A Book- Wear clothes to match a friend

• February 29- Cooking Up Some Good Books- We will have a special class treat provided - please do not send in a treat with your child

• March 1- Readers Are Leaders- Dress as what you want to be when you grow up