Important Dates . . .
March 28 -- Spring Break Begins
April 4 -- Classes Resume
April 5 -- Teacher Institute -- No School
April 21 -- School Improvement -- Early Dismissal
Language Arts
Students will continue brainstorming details to a given topic; however, this week picture prompting will cease. While encouraged to independently complete this task they are learning to effectively use their Quick Word Guides during this process. They are getting more comfortable at this process and should be able to show you how they would look up a word at home when needed.
Reading
This week we will continue with reading stations. In the Soar to Success station the students will begin reading and discussing either the book Let's Go Rock Collecting or the news article Cherry Blossom Festival. We will continue working on phonics, decoding, encoding, and comprehension throughout the week through direct instruction, Lexia, and hands on materials.
Please keep reading 20 minutes a night for the Independent Reading Program! This month students should be reading daily or a minimum of 20 minutes for 16 days. Please sign on the date the reading was accomplished. The Independent Reading Folder should be turned in Wednesday, March 23rd for a grade, so we can have a reading party Friday before break. Keep reading!
Spelling
The spelling words this week will cover all of the word families learned up to this point, Lessons 1-7 Review. They will be receiving a spelling practice page daily as an assignment. A test over this week's lesson will be given Friday. Please try to help your child study daily. One strategy you can use to help with spelling words this week is: Guess the word: One partner "writes" a spelling word with his/her finger on his/her partner' back.
Math
Continuing with place value. This week builds to knowing the difference between the 1's, 10's, and 100's place. Each child had done a great job last week showing their knowledge of place value using physical representation for each place value on the mimio whiteboard. The test will be midweek.
Daily Homework
Reading
- read 20 minutes and fill in Independent Reading Folder Log
- monthly turn in on Wednesday
- practice reading poems given to work on fluency
Spelling
- Practice Page nightly to be turned in & study words for test
