We had so much fun dressing up and celebrating Dr. Seuss's birthday. Thank you for all of your help, time, donations, and to all of our guest readers!
Parent Conferences for this trimester will be on a NEED ONLY basis and will be taking place the week before Spring break, March 20-24.
Continue to work on your community service projects. These will be due early May - They will need to be turned in before May 10th to qualify for the Leadership Banquet.
Upcoming Events:
Friday, March 17: ST. PATRICK'S WEAR GREEN DAY AND CENTERS
March 27-April 7: SPRING BREAK!!!
What Are We Learning This Week?:
Sight Words: OVER, UNDER, LEFT, RIGHT, PUT.
Letter Team: DGE (sounding like "j" like in BADGE, LEDGE, and FRIDGE).
Reading: We have been learning all about re-telling fiction stories using the story elements, such as characters, setting, problem, solution, as well as the beginning, middle, and end to re-tell. We have also been learning about re-telling non-fiction text using main idea and key details. We will continue to explore re-telling.
Writing: This week, we will continue learning how to write our opinions. Remember that writing an opinion is telling "What and Why".
Math: We will focus hard on decomposing and composing numbers within ten. You can help at home by asking your children problems like, "If I need 10 cupcakes and I only have 4, how many more would I need?" I am finding that students do a great job referring to the tens frame and answering "ways to make 10" questions, but struggle with ways to make other numbers, so let's make sure we are also asking, "If we need 7 apples and we have four, how many more would we need?" We will be discussing different strategies for this in class.
Leadership: We will continue to ROAR and discuss what it means to have a growth mindset!
Homework: March 6-10
Flashcards: Make new flashcards for each sight word and letter team. New words for this week are: OVER, UNDER, LEFT, RIGHT, PUT and the new letter team is: DGE - (sounding like "j" like in BADGE, LEDGE, and FRIDGE).
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.
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 wallet.
SPECIAL Turn-In Homework: For the next two weeks, your homework will be to build a leprechaun trap!!! We are going to be talking and writing about how we might catch a leprechaun. You will have two weeks to build your leprechaun trap with your family - be as creative as you can! These traps will be due in class no later than Thursday, March 16th. We are going to have a leprechaun trap museum and do a special project with them! Have fun!
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