This week we were learning about contractions! So, thanks to donations from parents, we were able to "dress the part," as we became word surgeons! Each child reconstructed their words and mended them back together with bandaids!
Next week, we will perform more word surgery with compound words!
NEWSLETTER for March 25th:
Spring Break begins this Friday! School will resume on Tuesday, April 9th. Have a wonderful vacation!
Pajama Day! On Thursday, our class will have pajama day! We will spend some time relaxing and reading our favorite books! Students may bring in a blanket, pillow and a few favorite books to read if they wish!
Fluency Homework- There will be no fluency homework this week. We will resume after Spring Break.
Sight Words: This week we will focus on the following sight words: happy, hello, lunch, and month.
Open Court Reading: This week we are reading our next story: The Big Team Relay Race. We will focus on summarizing, cause and effect, predicting, and compound words. We will perform more “word surgery” to help us learn about compound words such as rainbow and cupcake.
Saxon Math: The following skills will be covered this week: identifying one half, one third, and one sixth, using comparison symbols <, >, and =, and dividing a set of objects by sharing.
Spelling words: There will be no spelling this week.
This Week:
Monday-Wednesday: Math homework sheets
Thursday: Math and Reading tests
1-2 times per week: Read an AR book and take the test in class, read book(s) and review word ring that are found in your reading bag/folder.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Bella
