Dates to Remember
Monday, April 4 – Students return to school from break. Return green spelling notebooks.
Tuesday, April 5 – Hands on Museum Field Trip. Students will be leaving by 9:00 am and returning to school by 2:30 pm. Students still report to school at regular school time. PLEASE REMEMBER TO PACK YOUR CHILD A BROWN BAG LUNCH WITH THEIR NAME PRINTED ON THE BAG. We will not be going out to lunch. Items in lunch need to be disposable. Chaperones need to report to school by 8:50 for group assignments. Please bring a back-pack to carry group lunch bags.
Friday, April 8 – PBIS Celebration for the month of March. Students who earned positive Class Dojo points will get extra recess in the afternoon from 2:15-3:00 pm. Congratulations! to students who always promote and work on positive behavior in school.
Spelling Words for Week – “ad” family – bad, dad, mad. Sight words – are, on.
Peek at the Week
Writing – We will start a new unit in writing on Informational Writing on animals. We will begin a unit on frogs and students will make informational writing booklets on facts about frogs.
Math – We will continue our unit on measurement. Students will learn how to describe an object’s weight and length with use of standard and non-standard units of measurement. Students will learn vocabulary to compare objects. We will work on counting by 10’s, 2’s 5’s and 1’s to 100. Work on recognizing numbers on 100 chart and writing numbers. Working on terms least, greater, less than, more than and equal with story problems.
Science – We will begin a new unit on Earth science. Students will learn about different earth materials; water, soil, sand, rock and what the earth is made up of.
Social Studies – We will begin a new unit on Public Discourse. Students will identify classroom/school issues and problems and ways to resolve issues.
Daily Five/Lg. Arts. – Accuracy – Students will use the beginning and ending of words to figure out what a word means. Students will learn to read words with blends; ar, er endings. Comprehension – Students will understand how to compare and contrast characters in a story. Students will learn to use text features to understand words in bold print, labels, headings and captions with informational text features. Students will continue to build sight words fluency with sight word activities in the word center.
I hope everyone had a wonderful Spring Break! Enjoy the weekend.
Mrs. Polgar