Weekly Overview - March 19-23

HERE'S WHAT'S HAPPENING IN ROOM 14....MARCH 19-23

Dear Parents:

After the February break your child worked on a narrative story in class. I will be assessing this story based on our narrative rubric and sending it home on Thursday along with directions for a homework project that will be due in a week. This project will require some guidance from you. Please be on the lookout for the project information with Thursday’s homework.

LANGUAGE ARTS:

Printing/Phonograms:  We will continue to review phonograms and have weekly quizzes. For English skills we will work through Daily Oral Language (DOL) sentences to review grammar and editing skills. 

Reading: We start off our week with our listening comprehension story and assessment for a humorous fiction story called “Natural Habits”. The rest of the week we will be reading a story called “The Surprise Family”. The comprehension strategy for the week is to compare and contrast and the reading strategy is to use prior questions to focus the purpose. This is the last story for this theme, “Special Friends”.

English:  We will review skills through our Daily Oral Language (DOL) writing time.  The students will be graded on a creative sentence-writing test.

Spelling: Spelling errors on homework continue to be an issue. Parents, please check each night’s work carefully.

1.  I had cookies at the birthday party.

2.  They need to stay after school.

3.  Is he bigger than her father?

4.  Who took those from me?

5.  Why won't she come outside?    

MATH: Your child should have already brought in a labeled bag of coins to be used for our money study. If not, 10 pennies, 10 nickels, 10 dimes and 4 quarters are due TOMORROW. This week we will be focusing on the characteristics of the coins to aid in recognition. We will work on counting nickel and penny amounts, dime and penny amounts and then a combination of the three.

SCIENCE: This week we will begin working on something new and challenging! The students will be starting on in-class research reports based on an animal that was voted on (polar bear). The students will be working in small groups to read books and take notes - making sure to put the information in their own words. We will also begin our last topic for science by focusing on the characteristics of solids.

*************************SPECIAL NOTES***********************

Looking ahead:

March 26-27 – Furlough days

March 30- Teacher in-service day

Jump for Heart donation envelopes are due Thursday, March 29.

There will be no progress report this week, as I will be working on the writing assessment that your child will receive on Thursday for a homework project.

Please contact me if you have any questions.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Pierce