Hello Families!

Tomorrow we will take the Math NWEA test in the morning. 🙂

We had such an amazing time on our field trip last week! The children were very well behaved. Thank you for entrusting me to take your children to the zoo! Thank you to all of the adults who spent the day with us! I hope you had lots of fun! If you took pictures, please email them to me. Thanks!

Friday is a Movie Night sponsored by the PTA! Please join your Miller friends for this fun event! It will be a great way to end the week.

Homework: Be sure to complete the daily homework assignments on the April calendar. If this was misplaced, you can find it on your teacher’s blog.

Spelling: Here are the words for this week. Please be sure to help your child practice EVERYDAY! The test is on FRIDAY! Your child will be tested on three word family words and three sight words. * We will also give your child a “cold word” to spell. This is a word that follows the pattern of the word family. (an ex. is slip, hip, trip)

*This week’s word family is –ip. Students will write three words that have a different beginning sound with the rime –ip.

lip tip sip as well as one mystery –ip family word. This is a “cold word”. (ex. ship)

1. lip

2. tip

3. sip

4. did

5. so

6. come

Reading: We are practicing many reading strategies. We will practice comparing and contrasting two informational texts on the same topic. In addition, we will practice adding or substituting individual sounds to make new words/ (ex. If I change the /o/ in pot to /e/ what new word did I make?) Please practice the following sight words: (These are words your child needs to recognize and read by sight.)

Review: where too what         New words: they was baby

Math: We will practice non-standard measurement as we use various items such as cubes, paper clips, and other manipulatives to measure length and height of objects. We will use this information to compare objects based upon a certain measurable attribute. We will also take a computation test on addition and subtraction up to 5. Please practice math facts.

Science: We will continue our science explorations. We will explore trees and their parts as well as weather!

Social Studies: We will continue to talk about ways to work with the common good to solve problems. We will talk about ways we can help our planet! Earth Day was April 22nd!

Thank you for all you do!

Mrs. Mehrhof