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!

April Book Order

   

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Thanks for your support!

Mrs. Majinski

April 8th Newsletter

 

April 8th, 2024

This week in literacy, we will…

• Distinguish and know the sound-spellings for the complex vowel /o/ sound (au, aw, alk, alt and all).

• Read irregularly spelled words (been, before, pretty, warm).

• Build fluency while reading a book titled, A Walk in the Park. While reading, we will make predictions and retell important information from the text. 

• Read and write words with inflectional endings (-s, -ing, and -ed).

• Read a poem titled, A Caterpillar Crawled. We will read words with /aw/ sounds, identify rhyming words and review the purpose of quotation marks.

• Read a book titled, Scrunch the Caterpillar, by Stephen Krensky. While reading, we will notice words with inflectional endings. We will also identify how and when characters change and learn a lesson in the story. 

• Participate in Heggerty Phonemic Awareness lessons.

This week in writing, we will…

• We will continue working on our non-fiction books.

• Do our own research on our topics using non-fiction books as well as an online resource called PebbleGo.

• Add a glossary to our non-fiction books!

This week in math, we will….

• We will be reading the story of Hansel and Gretel

• We will be using different objects to represent numbers

• Practice counting by 1s, 5s, and 10s. 

• Play Race to Zero

• Use concrete models and drawings to subtract a 2-digit multiple of 10 from an equal or greater 2-digit multiple of 10

• Relate strategies for subtracting a 2-digit multiple of 10 from an equal or greater 2-digit multiple of 10 to written methods

• Use written numbers and symbols to represent strategies for subtracting a 2-digit multiple of 10 from an equal or greater 2-digit multiple of 10

• Explain the reasoning behind a strategy used to subtract a 2-digit multiple of 10 from an equal or greater 2-digit multiple of 10

This week in social studies we will….

• Begin a new unit on People and Money

• Learn about why people work

• Learn about trading and what it means to make money

• Learn about the difference between wants and needs

Important Dates to Remember!

• April 8- PTO Meeting

• April 8 - May - Green Team Sneaker Drive Fundraiser

• April 8-12- Stuff the Bus Food Drive

• April 12- Wellness Night

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

• April 19 - No school - Professional Development for Teachers

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