Dear Parents, March 4, 2013
Thank you to all those who have brought in cereal boxes or snack boxes for our school fair project!
Our reading strategy this week is “monitor and clarify”. Stopping to reread especially if there are words we have difficulty reading and making sure the sentence and the story make sense to us are strategies that good readers use. The comprehension skill that helps us with this strategy is sequencing events. Knowing what took place in the beginning, middle, and end of the story is important for comprehension. Our phonics focus this week is the sound of /oo/ as in cook or look. We are also working on compound words (cupcake) and words with multiple meanings – ring -what is worn on your finger or the sound a bell makes. This week, our spelling words are from unit 35 and are compound words. Please help your child learn to spell these words by breaking them into the two words. However, remember that they need to be spelled as one word on the spelling test. Please go online to Spellingcity.com and continue to practice the posted words – play the games and take the test. Our grammar focus this week continues to be on proper nouns for people and places.
In math we continue with Chapter 6. This week we focus on subtraction. As we have run out of fingers to help us now that we are past sums of 10, we will need to use our fact families, doubles, and patterns for 10 to help us.
In religion, we are learning about Jesus the Good Shepherd.
We will be focusing on finishing our science projects this week as we prepare for the school fair.
In social studies we will finally finish the lessons from last week on directions and how a community changes
Announcements:
- Tuesday is our field trip. Students are to wear their PE uniforms and bring a sweatshirt/jacket.
- Please remind your child to bring their library book to school on Tuesday.
- Wednesday March 6th, is our School Fair at 6:30 in Biedermann Hall. See you there!
- Wednesday at 2pm we will be attending Stations of the Cross.
- Friday is a half day with Primary Centers
- This week is All About… Jennessy! Congratulations!
Have a wonderful week. If you have any questions or concerns please let me know.
Miss. Manning
