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April 18, 2022

This week in literacy, we will…

  • Add -s to some words to make them plural

  • Add -es to words that end with ch, sh, s, x, and z to make them plural

  • Read How Animals Eat, by Mary Ebeltoft Reid. We will discuss important information from the text and infer the writer's purpose and message. We will understand the meaning of new content words by using text and photographs. Additionally, we will recognize simple plurals, review consonant clusters and identify contractions we see within the text. 

  • Read a poem titled "Five Little Sparrows". We will highlight plural nouns that are made by adding -s or -es.

  • Participate in Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Lessons

In Writing this week, we will… 

  • Understand what metaphors are use them in our own poems

  • Discuss what adjectives are and place them strategically in our poems

  • Celebrate the completion of our Poetry Unit by sharing our poems with the class


In math this week, we will… 

  • Start Unit 7 of Math

  • Count objects to 100 by 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s

  • Demonstrate an understanding that the digits in a 2 - digit number represent tens and ones

  • Demonstrate an understanding that multiples of 10 from 10 to 90 refer to some number of tens and ones

  • Compare 2 and 3 digit numbers


In Social Studies this week, we will learn about Canada.  We will…

  • Learn about where Canada is located

  • Learn about Canadian symbols and their flag

  • Compare and contrast Canada and the US


Important Dates to Remember!

April 18-22- Stuff the Bus Food Drive

April 20- Hearing Screenings

April 25 - School Board Meeting

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