Weekly Reminders... *If your child has a summer birthday we will celebrate them on Monday! Send in a treat of your child's choice. *There is a half day on Wednesday, 12:00 dismissal. No snacks or lunch are needed as we will have our end of the year celebration today. *Thursday is the last day of school! We have Mass at 8:00 and dismissal is at 11:00. Eat a good breakfast! No snacks or lunch needed today! *The children have been doing a great job remembering if they are buying lunch or not. Notes are no longer needed unless you are more comfortable or need to tell me specific things regarding lunch/snack purchases. *Remember that all paper stories do count as a homework assignment when they come home. The child should be reading it to someone in the house. The adult that it was read to should be signing or initialing it on the front cover. It gets sent back to school for credit. At the end of each trimester it will count as an oral reading grade. *READING PRACTICE and MATH PRACTICE…Please see the "useful links" tab to access these 2 sites. These are the websites that connect to our reading program and math book we use in class everyday. There are great things on there to practice with at home! This Week's Spelling Words are: born, corn, core, more, roar, soar, right, guess, better, began, learn and sure What are we learning this week? *Reading~Comprehension and sight words will take place every week! *Reading skills this week~Plot Sequence, Main topic and key details, Point of view, Cause and Effect Problem and solution, Irregular plural nouns, Alphabetical Order, Compound words, Abbreviations, Root words and inflectional endings ~er/~est *Phonics~R-controls: /ar/ /er/ /ir/ /or/ /ur/ *Math~Place value: Skill review-addition and subtraction facts, fact families, 2-digit addition with and without regrouping, time and place value *Spelling~R-control O words /or/: or/ore/oar forms *Handwriting~Letters V and v, Y and y, W and w *Religion~May's Parable~The Eucharist *Grammar~ Adverbs, Conjunctions and Adjectives/Adjectives that compare (er/est) *Writing~Writing trait: Writing fluency and Step up to writing *Science~Weather and Seasons *Social Studies~Economics Reminders needed for the entire school year! Please Remember… `To check your child’s H folder everyday! `To empty the blue communication folder every Wednesday (when it is sent home), date it, sign it and return it the next day. `All homework must be completed neatly just as the class work is. `Parents must be signing or initialing all written homework each night. `To empty out the test folder each Friday. If any other tests need to be returned that week a note will be in the test folder. |
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