April 20th - April 24th

What We Are Learning

Reading:  This week we continued to practice comprehension strategies.  This is an important skill that your child will have to do when I give them a reading assessment next month.  Have your child tell you events that happened in the beginning, middle, and end of the books they read to you. Also, make sure they include the characters’ names. Practice! Practice! Practice!

Alphabet: In alphabet this week, we looked at the _ay word family (examples: stay, hay, lay, etc.). We also learned about the blends st and sp.

Writing: This week we continued our opinion writing unit. We focused on editing our stories.  We found capital letters, spacing, and punctuation that we missed while drafting.

Math: This week we continued our measurement unit. Instead of focusing on length, we learned about weight.    We compared the weight of objects. We used the terms heavier or lighter.  Ask your child about some of the items we compared. 

Theme: During theme this week, we learned about butterflies.  We watched several videos and read books to help us understand their life cycle. Ask your child about what is on our Wonder Table!

Guided Reading Books

If your child has a guided reading envelope and/or a guided reading book at home from any previous weeks, could you please return it to school as soon as possible. We are making sure our guided reading library is intact and ready for next year, and if you could help us out with making sure they are all returned, it would be greatly appreciated!

Popcorn Words

Please practice reading, writing, and spelling our Popcorn Words.

This week’s words:

then & went

Previous words:

want, your, out, new, over, her, give, day, what, was, when, where, with, this, love, him, will, play, she, did, for, of, you, come, here, have, said, are, got, get, it, on, had, has, he, do, look, in, like, and, a, up, at, I, see, am, we, to, the, is, my, can, me, & go

Dates to Remember

April 24th: WOHE Night at Cardinals Game

April 29th: Talent Show Try-Outs

May 1st: Sock Hop

May 18th: Field Day

May 22nd: Last Day of School