Week 31

Happy April!

March has flown by and with a new month comes a new virtue! Integrity means to choose what is right and to know the difference between right and wrong.  We will be looking for ways to practice this virtue in and out of the classroom!

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Homework

Nightly: Read for 15 minutes, practice poem (1 minute), practice rocket math (1 minute) 

Practice Phonograms: ar, ough, ai, ay, oa, ck, ou, ow, eigh, igh

Monday: army, pretty, stole, income, bought, paid, laid, said, enter, railroad and WB pg. 109-11

Tuesday: unable, ticket, account, driven, real, recover, mountain, speak, past, might and WB pg. 112-114

Wednesday: contract, deal, all, almost, bring, brought, less, event, off, of and Test B

Thursday: review all words and math review sheet 

Academics

Poem: Rope Rhyme by Eloise Greenfield Idiom: Land of Nod

Spalding: We will have 30 words this week and the Spelling Test will be on Friday!

Monday: army, pretty, stole, income, bought, paid, laid, said, enter, railroad

Tuesday: unable, ticket, account, driven, real, recover, mountain, speak, past, might

Wednesday: contract, deal, all, almost, bring, brought, less, event, off, of

Phonograms: ar, ough, ai, ay, oa, ck, ou, ow, eigh, igh

Writing: Copy work and narration exercises will be from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Grammar: We will begin learning about the articles: "the", "a", and, "an". Students will learn how to use, identify, and differentiate between these articles in a sentence. 

Math: We will discover fractions this week as we separate objects into fourths and halves. Fractions are so fun to practice at home with food and objects!

Literature:  We will begin reading various folktales from around the world! We are also using “5 finger retell” to help us tell about what we have read. Our fingers help us remember setting, characters, problem, events (beginning, middle and end) and the solution.  Please use this strategy to retell nightly reading and for your child to share about the folktales they have read in class. Additionally, please send if your child’s copy of My Father’s Dragon.

History: We will continue to study the colonist’s journey to the American Revolution. We will learn about how the colonies united and Paul Revere’s famous midnight ride! We will also learn about the battle at Lexington and Concord and the Declaration of Independence.

Science: This week we will be studying stars and their size, age, and color. We will look closely at constellations and even make some of our own! We will also be learning the phases of the moon. Look out for a phases of the moon song for extra fun at home practice.