Newsletter April 1 - April 5

Happy April--here are this week's happenings:

• We had our spelling test today.  We will not have new spelling words this week as we are approaching the end of a unit.  We will have Sight Word Soldiers though tomorrow (Wednesday) like always.
• On April 12, we are having a First grade Easter Egg hunt with Mrs. Carter's class.  We need your help with this by sending 1 dozen plastic candy filled eggs by Thursday, April 11.  I will send home a note tomorrow with more details about this activity before Spring break.
• I neglected to send home April reading calendars today.  I will send those home tomorrow.  March calendars are now due.  I will give students until Friday, April 5 to turn those in for a certificate, pizza coupon and little treat.
• In math we are starting to double up a bit on lessons as we are a bit "behind".  Today we worked on comparing numbers with word problems and then we also hit on order lengths (shortest to longest and longest to shortest).  We will continue to do "double math" twice a week until the end of the school year.  This week in math for interventions we will be working on using symbols to compare numbers (>, <, = ).  We will finish this chapter on Friday with ten more and ten less (ex. for 33 ten more is 43 and ten less is 23).  We will review on Monday and test on Tuesday.  We will then move to Chapter 8 where students will start adding and subtracting with two digit numbers without regrouping (93 - 50 = or 43 + 40 = ).
• In reading as I mentioned above we are wrapping up this unit next week also.  We are now reviewing past, present and future tense verbs, reviewing when to double the consonant of a root word when adding an ending (run = running or jump = jumping).  We are reading a story daily from Grace and tomorrow we will finish our paragraphs about animal habitats.  
• In our fairy tales unit we just finished reading Jack and the Beanstalk which is our final fairy tale of the unit.  Students will now work on poster presentations with partners using one of the fairy tales we have read.  We will then move to our "American Independence"unit.

Happy Reading!

Mrs. Armstrong