Important Dates
April
29 – Poem in Your Pocket Day
May
6 – Movie Night
13 – Early Dismissal - 12:00
16 – Jurica Museum Field Trip
30 – No School – Memorial Day
June 3 - School Picnic
7 – Last Day of School
Our chicks are due to hatch on Monday or Tuesday of next week. I'm sure you'll hear about it when they do:)
Math
In math, we have been working on counting pennies, nickels, dimes, & quarters. One of the best ways to learn this concept is to use money on a daily basis. Give your child a handful of coins & help him/her to count them. Start out with all pennies, all nickels, all dimes, etc. Then put 2 types of coins together. If they can do that, then try 3 different kinds of coins. Happy counting!
C
omputers
The boys got to work using the laptops this week. We played the game called “Coin Critters” in computers this week. It starts out by having the children click on the heads up coins of pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, & half dollars. The game progressively gets more difficult. Some children had difficulty identifying the coins while others were able to count the total amount of a given set of coins. Keep practicing at home please.
Reading
Next week we will read Two Greedy Bears and a Math Link, Fraction Action.
Comprehension Strategies
We will be working on predicting and inferring. Also, we will learn how to read a cartoon.
Vocabulary Words
Next week's vocabulary words are: appetite, argued, arguing, bigger, equal, hungrier, journey, larger, stomachache, thirstier
Phonics Skills
We will be working on r-controlled vowels: ar, er, ir, and ur. We will review vowel pairs oi, oy, aw, and au.
Also, we will be working on suffixes –ful, -ly, and –y.
Grammar Skills
We will be learning how to describe things we hear.
Spelling Words
Our spelling words for next week are: store, corn, for, more, or, morning, afford, before, explore, & ignore
Have a nice weekend!
