March 31 - April 4

 Dear Parents,

We hope that everyone had a restful spring break.  A few reminders as we begin this last portion of the year.

• We sent our red communication folders home before the break so that parents would have a chance to look at their child’s work during conferences.  If you have not already done so please return your child’s red folder. 

• In hopes of continuing to practice our decodable home reading and offer an incentive, I will be tracking our home reading exchanges. When we have reached 100 exchanges as a class we will have the opportunity to have an earned class reward that we will decide on together as a class.  Please continue to help your child remember to return their decodable books on Mondays and Thursdays.   We are now learning new spelling rules and patterns every day in word work, and 5-10 minutes of home reading each night will help to strengthen these reading skills!     

• As mentioned, we will be going to City Hall School at the middle of May.  We will require 5 volunteers every day.  Please take a look at your schedule and see when is a good time for you to volunteer.  An email will be sent to all volunteers with clearance asking for your help to make this amazing experience possible for your child and our class.

Social Studies

In preparation for City Hall school, we have continued to build our understanding of Urban and Rural communities.  Students worked on a picture study, continued to develop vocabulary around these two types of communities, and illustrated their understanding of what an Urban community looks like.   

     

Learning Intention

• Recognize different groups or communities

• Identify familiar landmarks and places in my community 

• Identify important landmarks and places significant features of the community

• Identify differences between rural and urban communities

Literacy

During our literacy time, we began looking at different types of texts, fiction and nonfiction.  Students listened to several examples of the type of text then worked to record their reflections and gather information from each text.  Our understanding of fiction and nonfiction texts grew as the week progressed.  Ask your child which texts they enjoyed most this week.

    

     

Learning Intention

• Examine ways that messages can be organized and presented for different purposes.

• Describe the differences between messages that are imaginary (fiction) or real (non-fiction).

• Investigate meaning communicated in texts.

• Listen to a variety of fictional and informational texts that are read aloud.

• Identify key ideas and details from texts.

Math

In math this week we have continued to build our understanding of representing larger numbers.  Through problem-solving situations, students used a variety of materials to show and explain different visual representations of larger two-digit numbers.

Learning Intention

• Recognize quantities to 10.

• Represent numbers to 100.

• Represent quantities using words, numerals, objects, or pictures.