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April 26th Newsletter

 

Upcoming Events

*4/28 Late Start

*May 6 NWEA testing

*May 11 NWEA testing

Please mark these dates down and have your child

well rested and ready for Spring Testing :)

*May 3 No School-Teacher Curriculum day

*May 12, 19, 26-Late starts

Checking Folders

I know spring can be a busy time with sports FINALLY starting, but please remember to check your child's folder every night and take out the papers that are in there. It makes it hard to put the new things in there when there are still paper from the previous days. 

Library Books

Notices went home with your child on Thursday if you have overdue library books. Please check the titles and look for them around your home. We want them to be able to take home new books but the others need to be returned first. Thanks!

Language Arts

Our focus this week in phonics was the sound of Letter Yy.  We are also learning that Yy sometimes "steals" the sound of Ee or Ii when it is at the end of the word.

Last week we learned when to use the letter C or K when we hear the /k/ sound at the beginning of a word. If the letter is followed by a A, O, or U, you use a Cc. If it is followed by an E, I, or Y, you use a Kk. These spelling secrets can really help us with our reading and our writing!

We are also learning spelling words with a double consonant at

the end:  kiss, yell. The secret for this is that when a one-

syllable word ends with a F, L, S, or Z, you double the consonant.

The sentence that helps us remember this is, Jeff will pass Buzz.

 We have been working hard to learn the H brothers--SH, CH, TH, and Wh.  We are learning their

sounds and listening for them at the beginning or the end of

a word.

 

In reading we are identifying cause and effect. We are thinking

about why something happened or what was the cause. We are

also figuring out what happened because of something else or

what the effect of an action was.

In writing, we are writing Informational (Non-fiction) Text.We have written a book about a person and an animal so far

in this unit!  We are including 3 facts about the topic of our

books. We will be writing at least one more book about an

activity to finish up this unit this week.

Math

In math we are learning the “Friends of 10”.  (4 and 6,

5 and 5, 7 and 3 etc…) This is our fun way to start memorizing

facts to 10.  We are practicing addition to 5 for fluency, which

means “knowing the facts quickly without counting”.

Your child is now making the transition from doing addition

and subtraction with pictures and objects, to doing this

without pictures and objects.

We are learning other strategies, like counting on/counting

back from the first number when adding or subtracting

without pictures/objects.

We will do daily fluency practice soon to help learn simple

addition and subtraction facts quickly.