This week we will focus on:

Reading/ELA: We will focus on adjectives, prefixes, and word endings.  We will also be writing an informational story about our meal worms and completing the district writing prompt. Your child should be reading for 20 minutes daily. Have your child practice highlighted sight words in reading bag and read books in their reading bags and on Myon.  Spelling homework is also daily please follow directions on white paper on the inside cover of your child’s homework.

Math: we will  learn about adding 2 digit numbers using an base ten blocks and other strategies: this will consist of practice worksheets, math bag activities/games and Xtramath and Everyday Math online. Math bags have been coming home please use the items in there to practice what we have been learning in class.

Science: We will be learning about the life cycle of a meal worm and butterfly.

Social Studies: we will be learning about rules, power with authority and power without authority.

Spelling Words for the week of April 20^th:

1. moon

2. spoon

3. tooth

4. balloon

5. raccoon

6. broom

7. noon

These are the spelling words your child should be practicing at home. The spelling pattern for this week is –oo. Make sure your child is doing the spelling homework in their spelling/poetry notebook on a daily basis. Test will be on Friday.