This is our last week of school before spring break. We have NO SCHOOL for the next two weeks. Spring break is a perfect time to work on your Community Service Projects! I hope you have a wonderful two weeks off with your families!
Upcoming Events:
March 27-April 7: SPRING BREAK!!!
March 27-April 7: SPRING BREAK!!!
What Are We Learning This Week?:
Sight Words: There will be no new sight words introduced until after Spring Break. Please take this time to review ALL of our words introduced so far. Remember, sight words are words that your child should recognize instantly. These are not words your child should be sounding out! Please continue to work on these words.
Letter Team: There will be no new letter teams introduced until after Spring Break. Please take this time to review ALL of our letter teams introduced so far. Many children know most of the letter teams, but have a hard time applying them into decoding words. A great idea would be to write words (or make flashcards) with letter teams inside them and have your child decode the word for you, applying the letter team.
Reading: This week, we will read books about spring and animals. As always, we will also continue to read fluency passages at their levels and their self-selected good-fit books from the library.
Letter Team: There will be no new letter teams introduced until after Spring Break. Please take this time to review ALL of our letter teams introduced so far. Many children know most of the letter teams, but have a hard time applying them into decoding words. A great idea would be to write words (or make flashcards) with letter teams inside them and have your child decode the word for you, applying the letter team.
Reading: This week, we will read books about spring and animals. As always, we will also continue to read fluency passages at their levels and their self-selected good-fit books from the library.
Writing: We will write all about spring and animals!
Math: We will continue to work hard on decomposing and composing numbers within ten, as well as addition and subtraction problems, and identifying the place value (tens and ones) of two-digit numbers.
Leadership: We will continue to ROAR and discuss what it means to have a growth mindset!
Homework: March 20-24
Flashcards: Since we have no new sight words, this is a great opportunity to review ALL sight words and letter teams introduced so far.
Phonemic Awareness: Please work with your child on the following Phonemic Awareness skills - rhyming, blending, segmenting, syllables, and beginning/middle/ending sounds.
Reading: Play Smarty Ants for 10-15 minutes each night. In addition to Smarty Ants, we ask that you read your Book Bag every night. This includes: fluency passage, paper books, and library books.
Writing: Practice writing EVERY day. You can practice writing a 5 sentence Step up to Writing paragraph in your at-home journal.
Math: Play Dreambox for 10-15 minutes each night. Continue to discuss ways to make 5 (and ways to make 10!), numbers in base ten (in the number 16, how many tens and how many ones?), addition and subtraction number problems and word problems, 2D and 3D shapes, and the Doubles Song. Count the money in your bank.
SPECIAL Turn-In Homework: This week your child will have a special homework assignment! On Monday in class, each child will be selecting an animal that they want to learn more about. We will discuss what we could learn about our animal- what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, fun facts, etc. BE ON THE LOOK OUT FOR A PAPER COMING HOME WITH THEM WHERE THEY WROTE ABOUT WHAT ANIMAL THEY HAVE SELECTED AND WHAT THEY WANT TO LEARN. Then, their homework is to "research" their animal (using the Internet, books at home or from the library, background knowledge, etc.) to learn at least three things about their animal. Their three things about their animal is due by Friday! After our Spring Break, we will be turning these animal facts into a class book "All About Animals!" that will be published! :)
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