Week of April 23-27, 2018

Thank you to the PTO for our ice cream party reward.

Your generous donations helped create the winning basket for our grade level.

Reading: “This is the Way We Go to School” is the title of this week’s story. This informational fiction story explains 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: We are beginning Topic 11. This unit decomposes numbers 11 to 19. The students will be using ten frames to break apart the numbers into parts that show ten ones and some further ones.

Reminders:

~ Kindergarten Graduation Pictures are scheduled for Thursday, April 26^th .

~ 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 assess 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.  

~ Math testing will also take place. Students will be comparing number quantities, identifying numbers 0-100, and naming the next number randomly.

~ Please continue to practice ALL sight words daily. The 96 word goal is definitely in reach!