Yipee…I think Spring is really here! Daffodils are blooming, walkers and joggers are out and even dogs are enjoying some warmer temperatures and fresh air.  I hope that you too are enjoying our Spring.

READING-Unit 9  Week 3     Week 3 is always the review week of weeks 1 & 2. Our theme for the week is ANIMALS THEN AND NOW.  We’ll begin with dinosaurs and sea turtles. Sea Turtles were here when the Dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Dinosaurs no longer live here but Sea Turtles still exist.  Hmmm???

WRITING-We’ll be using our imaginations to create sentences about how dinosaurs might help us if they were still here.  To get us started, we’ll read a book titled “If the Dinosaurs Came Back.”

LETTERS-Review   X x    W w   V v   G g

WORDS-come   away

SPELLING-“og” chunk    9 words this week

dog  jog log  smog   frog  

come  away  (new reading words this week)

has  look  (review words from last week)

MATH-Clocks   Money (coins)  and number families

SCIENCE-Living and Non-Living Things

I also hope to catch some caterpillar eggs and have the students enjoy watching the process from egg to caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly!

Over the next several weeks, I will be assessing the students’ reading levels.  This past week they had the district writing prompt and most did quite well.  I told them that now I have a lot of homework–I have to read and grade ALL that writing!

Enjoy your week.

Mrs. Smith