Life in the Ocean

Phonics

This weeks word family was - og. We also practiced 3 letter s blends squ-, str-.

Popcorn Words

Don't forget to help your child bring their popcorn word ring to school everyday so that we can continue to add more words as we learn them. These words should be practiced as quickly as possible to help the students with their fluency and recognition of the words.

We learned: pretty, funny, under

Words we know: a, I, it, in, see, big, my, like, up, run, on, we, me, am,  did, not, can, is, but, to, too, ran, into, for, little, and, yes, no, the, you, down, he, she, be, our, here, out, get, help, now, look, good, jump, will, have, must, one, two, three, four, five, said, this, that, new, soon, went, come, who, what, where, say, away, play, eat, please, want, with, came, make, ate, ride,was, saw, are, well

Reading

During our reading time this week we read the Rainbow Fish and Sharks. Rainbow Fish was a fiction story that tied in friendship. Sharks was a nonfiction book all about sharks. We compared the different text features of the fiction and non fiction stories. We also compared sharks and fish using a venn diagram.

Math

In math this week we continue to work on addition and subtraction in our centers. These centers will help us become more fluent with our adding and subtracting. We are getting really fast at solving problems. During our whole group lessons we are working on building larger numbers like 37 or 59. We have been playing a game with pennies and dimes to practice counting and trading in a group of ten ones (pennies) for a ten (dime).  

Important Reminders:

May 13th- Half Day

May 20th- due date for the last scholastic book order for the year! Stock up on summer reading materials to prevent the "summer slide."

Zoo field trip permission slips came home today, please turn them in ASAP

Join us for our Poetry Cafe on May 27th 12:45-1:30, RSVPs went home earlier in the week, please turn this yellow sheet in even if you are not attending so we can prepare for the amount of visitors during our time. If you can't attend in person it will be on a live stream on the school website. I will send home additional copies of the letter Monday for anyone who has not responded by then.