Weeks of April 18th to April 29th

Weeks of April 18th to April 29th

READING: ​ We will be reading a story that centers around fossils and dinosaurs! "The Dog That Dug for Dinosaurs" is a great book to analyze fact and opinion as well as using our questioning strategies. We will also be working on adverbs and opinion writing. 

WRITING:
We will are working on letters and paragraphs to persuade. Proofreading and making sure we have all parts of a letter. We are starting to be creative in our SQUIGGLE stories each week. This is  where the students receive a squiggle mark, then have to draw something using the squiggle and then write about it! We are creating  some awesome writing in our journals and we are exciting to do so many writing projects!  We continue to work on writing Weekend Reports every Monday. We are focusing on writing a complete sentence with a capital letter, a complete thought, and an end mark. We are also learning to use graphic organizers to help with our pre-writes. With every sentence we write, we try to think of one good detail sentence to add to our stories. Phonics: we will be working on ea and ee words. 

SPELLING: 

This week our spelling words all have "oo" sounds. Our list is: took, books, foot, hoof, cook, nook, hood, wood, stood, shook, crook, cookbook, look, good, crooked, bookcase our test will be April 29th. 

MATH:

We have are continuing our unit on Geometry. This week and next will be working on fractions and partitioning shapes. Addition and Subtraction skills will be worked on daily. We are working on  problem solving. We are also counting to 1000, skip counting, working on graphs, and looking for patterns.

Science: 

We will be working on studying animals past and present. We will be focusing on fossils to tie our story and our objectives together. 

HANDWRITING: 
We are working on our letter formation for print. Please check the red folder for practice sheets coming home to extend learning and practice of handwriting skills.