Week 33

The scholars of 1C worked incredibly hard last week as we enjoyed wrapping up our unit on the American Revolution.  We are looking forward to going on an adventure  next week as we begin reading My Father's Dragon! 

I hope everyone enjoyed the beautiful weather we had over the weekend! 


Homework for the week of 4/16

Nightly: read for 15 minutes phonograms to practice- ea, eigh, ai, ay, or, y, ee, ow, oa, ey

Poem- The Rope Rhyme by: Eloise Greenfield

Monday: ready, omit, anyway, eight, breakfast, chance, climb, coffee, color, contains and math wkbk. pg. 133-134

Tuesday: daily, day, eagle, fancy, fly, forest, freeze, gentle, grow, holes and math wkbk. pg. 133-134

Wednesday: hotel, iron, living, live, monkey, myself, noise, pencil, pie, pull and math wkbk. pg. 135-136

Thursday: Review all words and math wkbk. pg. 137-138

Friday: math wkbk. pg. 139-140

Announcements

My Father’s Dragon: We will begin reading My Father’s Dragon on Monday, April 16^th.  Please ensure that your child brings in their copy by this date. Thank you!

Calendar

Monday, April 23^rd: No school 

April 24-27: Usborne Book Fair
April 27^th from 7:50 – 9:50 am: Appreciation Social 

May 2^nd: Spring Concert



Academics

Math: We will start the week by taking a unit test on time, we will make sure to review amply before taking this test due to the weekend. We will practice counting within 100 by making tens. We will review place value and read and write number symbols and their corresponding number words. 

 Poem: Rope Rhyme Idiom: Land of Nod

Writing:   Students will be able to understand the basic conventions of a proper sentence and rewrite a model sentence. We will read and write about sections from "All of a Kind Family" by Sydney Taylor and "The Crocodile and The Monkey" from the Buddhist Jataka Tales. Students will be able to understand the basic conventions of a proper sentence and rewrite a model sentence. 

Grammar:  This week we will learn about contractions and compound words. Students will learn that a contraction is when two words are shortened in to one word using an apostrophe and that a compound word is when two or more words that have their own meanings are combined to make one new word. 

Spalding: 

Monday: ready, omit, anyway, eight, breakfast, chance, climb, coffee, color, contains

Tuesday: daily, day, eagle, fancy, fly, forest, freeze, gentle, grow, holes

Wednesday: hotel, iron, living, live, monkey, myself, noise, pencil, pie, pull

phonograms: ea, eigh, ai, ay, or, y, ee, ow, oa, ey

Literature: We will begin reading My Father’s Dragon this week! On Wednesday, students will bring home a paper sack and instructions to fill the bag with items that they would bring on an adventure.

Science: This week students in science we are beginning to learn about the planets.

History: We will begin our westward expansion unit.  Students will learn about Daniel Boone, The Louisiana Purchase and the Louis and Clark expedition.