April 22-26, 2019

Reading: “This is the Way We Go to School” is the title of this week’s story. This informational fiction book discusses the ways children around the world get to school. Drawing conclusions is the comprehension skill taught this week. We will also revisit how to identify verbs as action words in sentences. Our amazing words are: cable car, horse-and –buggy, Metro line, trolley, skis, and vaporetto. The sight words to focus on are: where and come.

Phonics: Two letters will be featured this week. Yy makes the /y/ sound, as in yak. Qq’s sound is /kw/, as in quilt.

Math: Unit 8 begins this week. This unit teaches Coins & Personal Financial Literacy. We will identify coins and their value, discuss why we have money and what it is used for, and we will learn about spending and saving.

Reminders:

~The PTO Basket Raffle will take place this weekend (April 27^th & 28^th). Thank you for your contributions to our “Cold Drinks” basket. Please remember to stop by and drop a ticket in our cool prize!

~ The reading teachers will soon begin their end of the year testing. Your child will be required to write dictated sentences. (They must use capital letters at the beginning, finger spaces between words, and punctuation at the end. For words they do not know how to spell: have them sound out the word and write the sounds they hear.) They will also need to identify, write, and give the sound (along with a word) for each letter of the alphabet. Another assessment will determine how many words can be written correctly in a 10 minute time frame. Practice word writing regularly. Remind your child to use sight words, word families, colors, numbers, familiar names, etc.  

~The last round of DIBELS testing will also be taking place in May. The reading portion will have children identifying letters, segmenting words (jump /j/,/u/,/m/,/p/), and reading nonsense words (nuv, deg, baz…) . Each section will be timed for 1 minute, therefore speed is important. In the Math portion, students will compare number quantities (quickly determine which set of dots has more & state the number in that set), identify numbers 0-100, and name the next number randomly.