Week of March 18

Welcome Back!!!

We hope everyone had a fun and relaxing Spring Break. We both did! :) Now it's time to get to work... Our grades are due Friday. So we want to have all our testing done STAT!!!

Our week is as follows: Mon-ART w/Schmidt, Tues-EXTRA PE @ 9:00 and MUSIC w/Tillis, Wed-MEDIA and Friday NO SCHOOL~ Teacher Planning Day. :) 

MATH

We continuing with or focus on composing numbers using number bonds and number sentences. Before Spring Break we focused a lot on the numbers 5 and 6. We will review those on Monday and revisit them throughout the week when needed. We will then continue through the week with numbers 7, 8, and 9. In order for students to understand the concept of composition it's important to continue to practice with them with smaller numbers and then  the numbers we are currently working on. In class we will be practicing with hula hoops, number bond white boards, and more to help students understand that two group come together to make a bigger number.

WRITING

Our Writing this week will be about something we did over Spring Break. Then later in the week it'll be our Opinion on which Billy Goat story we like more and WHY! 

SAXON/ READING SKILLS

We are continuing the lessons on letter Ww. Make sure your child produces the sound without adding the "uhhhh" sound at the end of it. Our blend this week is tricky~ but we know the students can handle it!! It is the DR- blend= so we have words like dress, dragon, drop, etc. Our word family is the -ug family= bug, rug, plug, etc. Our Sight Words this week are would, him, did & over. Practice reading the words by using the slideshow. 

Continue to practice sound substitution at the beginning of words with your child. We will be doing that a lot more in the up coming quarter and we change it up by substituting the ending sounds of words. (All of this helps your child become a better reader.)

READING

This week we will read the original billy goat story... The Three Billy Goats Gruff by Paul Galdone. We will compare that story with our book we read before Spring Break~ The Three Billy Goats Fluff. (If your child does not remember the characters or events from the story, check back with the weekly post on March 4.) When comparing the stories, we will use the Venn Diagram and the students will work with their Sanford Harmony Buddy. They can chose to complete the diagram with words or pictures= it's a partners choice activity.