Mark Your Calendars!
4/15: Scholastic Book Order Due
4/22: No School – Superintendent’s Conference Day
Spelling Tests
Thank you for working with your child and practicing spelling words at home. There are many ways to practice spelling words: Our tests are on Fridays. If it needs to be on another day I will send a REMIND message.
- Read, Spell, Cover, Write
- Rainbow Words: Write each word in a different color.
- Spell with Alpha-Bits cereal or alphabet pretzels
- Letter stamps
- Write 5x each
- You say a letter, I’ll say a letter
- Write a story using the spelling words.
- Write silly sentences using the spelling words.
- Scramble and Unscramble
Recreation: When spring eventually arrives please know that it can be quite muddy on our playground. Please send boots to school with your child so that sneakers can stay clean.
Box Tops – Thank you for sending in Box Tops. We have one more contest this school year. Please continue to collect.
English Language Arts
In Unit 5 of our skills unitswe will focus on spelling alternatives for consonant sounds. New sounds & spellings that will be introduced are /ch/ ‘tch’, /j/ ‘g’, ‘ge’, /v/ ‘ve’, and /r/ ‘wr’.
Formation of plural endings will also be introduced (-s and -es). Patterns for root words and spelling changes will be examined. Students will learn about the rule of doubling-consonant spellings.
The decodable reader for Unit 5 is titled Kate’s Book. It follows a girl named Kate who has various adventures during her summer vacation and eventually writes a book about them.
Formal instruction in the writing process will continue with opinion writing. Students will learn to express their personal opinion about a variety of topics. Our next unit (6) is the reader titled Grace. We will write personal narratives. We will continue learning pronouns, adjectives, and prepositions. The sounds/spelling we will focus on are c,/s/, /k/, ce, se, kn /n/, wh /w/, n/ng/.
In Listening and Learning
Students will learn about the birth of our country. The domain is titled A New Nation – American Independence. Students will be introduced to many historical figures and events as the story unfolds to describe how the 13 colonies evolved slowly over time from their initial dependence on England to the status of an independent nation. Our next unit is on the Frontier Explorers.
Math
In module 4 students will learn about tens and ones, comparison of pairs of two-digit numbers, addition and subtraction of tens, addition of tens or ones to a two-digit number, varied problem types within 20, and addition of tens and ones to a two-digit number. Please practice adding two digit numbers breaking the ten out.
Module 5 will have a focus of identifying, composing, and partitioning shapes. We will learn about geometry and part-whole relationships within composite shapes. Please continue to practice basic facts.