Week of April 8

We have a busy week of Resources, Learning and hopefully... Mrs. Croft has Baby Sawyer. :) (Her due date is this Wednesday and the students are hopeful for a baby!!!) Our Resources are Monday to Thursday and go accordingly: Media, Art, Music & Art. Then on Friday we have Cowboy and Cowgirl Day!! And it's Noah Williams' Birthday. :) 

Also, we mentioned last week about not having anyone signed up for Fun Friday Snacks. Last Friday we went through all of our leftover snacks and juices. Hopefully we have someone sign up for this Friday. :) Just send us an email.

MATH

We are continuing our new unit on addition with word problems using number bonds, a number line, and math symbols. This unit uses the foundation from last unit to continue learning and practicing putting two numbers together to make a new larger number. The number line can be tricky for students so please make sure to review it with them. We will continue to use the number line in our next unit with subtraction. 

WRITING

We are finishing up our All About Me Report Books. Look for them to come home at the end of the week. :)  

SAXON/ READING SKILLS

Saxon is focusing on the sh blend. We did this last quarter, so I'm hopeful that the students will ease into coding it and using the /sh/ sound. They're also focusing a lot on Sight Words. Which is great, because this quarter our goal is 80 words!! :)

Our focus blend is PR- and our Medial Vowel is E. Remember to practice the slideshow with your child and go over the short e and long e sound.  Our sight words for the week are: know, with, back & after. 

ooh I almost forgot... make sure to be practicing lowercase letter writing. We'll be taking our test Friday. Perfect scores earn a Treasure Box!!

READING

This week our story is Piggie Pie by Margie Palatini. Instead of focusing on multiple skills. I decided to focus on vocabulary. :) We will discuss how many words have multiple meanings... but we want to know the meaning of words in this story. We will aim to make three Journal entries that showcase the meaning of a word with definition and picture. 

Here are the words we will focus on: delicious, plump, spell, gear, stared, lumbered, surrender & threatened. Make sure to discuss these words with your child. Two of the words will be chosen for the test on Friday. The students will be expected to write the definition or illustrate the meaning of the word.