Important Dates . . .
April 25 - May 6 -- MAP Testing
Plan Ahead:
*Early Dismissal on Friday, May 13.
*No school on Monday, May 30.
Language Arts
After watching the Easter Egg Roll at the White House, students will complete a few writing activities this week.
Reading
The students will be continued to be divided into reading stations. The students will finish reading and discussing the news article Easter Egg Roll. Then, they will read another few stories in the news like Earth Day. 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 20 days. Please sign on the date the reading was accomplished. The Independent Reading Folder should be turned in every Friday for a checkpoint of dates and minutes. The monthly turn in is officially due this Thursday. Keep reading!
Spelling
The spelling words this week will continue to cover phonograms or word families, "-in" & "-ine". They will be receiving a spelling practice page daily as an assignment. They will also be making flashcards this week that you can use to study daily. A test over this week's lesson will be given Friday. One strategy you can use to help with spelling words this week is:
Reverse Chaining by Syllable
This is harder, for longer words.
Say the word. Then write it, saying each letter (be enthusiastic and expressive)
S-E-P-A-R-A-T-E
Skip a line and say it and write it again — minus the last syllable. Say the last syllable and spell it out loud, but don't write it.
S-E-P-A-_________
Continue until you aren't writing anything — but still say the spelling out loud.
Go back to the top. Read the word, then spell it out loud.
Fold the page over so you can't see the whole word. Say the word, spell it, and add the last syllable.
Fold the page back again. Say the word, spell it, and add the last two syllables.
Continue until you spell the whole word.
GO BACK AND CHECK — make sure you didn't leave out any letters.
should
shoul__
shou__ __
sho __ __ __
sh__ __ __ __
s __ __ __ __ __
__ __ __ __ __ __
Math
We will be reviewing basic math concepts, time, and money this week. In addition, this week students will continue with Chapter 11, Comparing and Ordering Numbers. The test is scheduled to be next week.
Science
Students are greatly enjoying the Human Body Unit. They did a great job identifying the organs and features of each of the six systems of the human body.
Students will be responsible for vocabulary and will receive a vocabulary quiz over these words. Once the vocabulary goes home it will be in their folder and it is suggested to study the words nightly.
Daily Homework
Reading
- read 20 minutes and fill in Independent Reading Folder Log
- Independent Reading Folder due Friday
- practice reading poems given to work on fluency
Spelling
- Practice Page nightly to be turned in & study words for test
