Hope everyone had a fantastic Spring Break!
Reminders:
Report cards went home today!
Send a piece of fruit with your child to school Tuesday, March 23. We will be talking about fractions and using fruit to learn about halves.
In Reader's Workshop...
We will continue to send home take home reader's each night. Please be sure to read these books each night with your child and send them back the next day!!
We are starting our unit on Poetry! We will discuss different types of poems, the characteristics of poems, work on class poems, and each student will write individual poems. On Friday, we will have a chance to share our poems with the class!
In Writer's Workshop...
We are working on making our writing readable for readers. We will go over using sight words, putting space between words, focusing our stories on the main idea, learn some more sight words and how to use the word wall.
We will begin having spelling pre-tests and post-tests. The pre-test will be given on Monday and the post-test will be given on Friday.
Our words for this week are: said, they, what, little, could, were, friend, your, does, would, goes, know, every, their, asked
Challenge words are amphibians and reptiles
In math...
We are starting our unit on fractions! We will start off by talking about halves. On Tuesday, please send a piece of fruit with your child. We will be cutting these in halves and discussing what we see. (Are they equal? Why or why not?) Towards the end of the week we will begin talking about thirds and fourths.
In science...
We will continue our study on animals. This week we are talking about amphibians and reptiles.
On Tuesday we will send home the animal research packet. This is to be done at home. More information to go home on Tuesday.
Hope everyone has a great week!
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