Week of April 18

Our Resources for the week are Monday #1-18 ART and #19-37 MUSIC, Tuesday ART and Thursday MUSIC. Friday's Fun Friday Activity is to wear Green and/or Blue in support of Earth Day. Abigail has brought snacks in for the class. :)

Report Cards are going home Monday, April 18. Make sure to sign the report card slip and return it to school with the envelope. Thank you!!  

HANDWRITING/ WRITING

We are continuing Persuasive Writing. The class has come up with a list of things that they would need to PERSUADE you all to buy and places they would need to PERSUADE you to take them. haha They will be choosing one of the items to write about and we will be focusing on "I statements" and "You statements."These statements include, "I think. I feel. I believe, You should, You could, You would, etc"

Please make sure to correct any letter reversals your child writes. We have discussed a lot of the mix ups we have been seeing!! Also, make sure your child writes their sight words correctly and uses their sounds for unknown words. The students are expected to write words with beginning, middle and ending sounds. :)

MATH

Teen numbers can be tricky. Often students flip the numbers and write the numbers incorrectly. For example, they write 81 for 18. Here are two fun videos that we are using to help remember what teen numbers are and how to write each number correctly! Also, we are experts at counting by ones and tens. Now we are going to start counting by fives!

 

SCIENCE 
What do you do during the day? What do you do at night? Does everyone do the same things each day and night? We will look at activities we do during the day and night and how sometimes people do different things! This week our class will discover that there are patterns we follow and that nature follows patterns also!  

READING

Our Sight Words for the week are way, went, then and could. Our Word Families are: -ank and -unk. Our blend is st. Here is the slideshow we will be using. Our Medial Vowel sound is O. We will discuss whether it's a short o or long o sound using this slideshow. We will be practicing more opposite matches and taking a quiz.
   

We have been learning all about Tradespeople!  The students are doing great listing each of the jobs and telling me what each one does, along with the tools they need. We have also been doing a lot of comparing with life in the 1700's vs. life today. The class really makes us laugh by telling us how "strange" things used to be. :)
Here are the stories we will be reading this week. We are really focused on figuring out unknown words.~ Discussing the clues the story gives us to figure out the meanings.~ They retelling stories with the events in the order that they occur~ Beginning, Middle and End.
The Elves and the Shoemaker
The House Builders:Bricklayers, Masons, Carpenters
The Blacksmith
The Little Gray Pony