Happy April! I hope all of our room 5 families had a relaxing and enjoyable Spring Break. It is important that we we work together the last couple months of school in order to combat "Spring Fever" both academically and behaviorally.
In math, we have been focusing on being able to apply our knowledge of addition into word problems. We have been practicing to solve these problems using groups of tens and ones, in order to practice place value. The three strategies we use most often to solve these word problems are 1) drawing pictures, 2) identifying our groups of tens, and 3) using words to explain. Before spring break, we also began incorporating subtraction concepts into our word problems and strategies. In language arts, our unit was called Figure It Out, which means making sense of the world around us. Topics that we investigated include See It, sort It; Up In The Sky; Great Inventions; Sounds All Around; and Build It! This unit has made it very easy to take part in and connect with memorable Science and Social Studies activities. Sounds of the week included: words with /ar/, words with ir, ur, er, or /ur/, words with ore, or, and oar /or/, words with ou and ow /ow/, and words with oi and oy /oi/. Grammar concepts included: irregular plurals, inflectional endings with -er, abbreviations, inflectional endings with -est, and diphthongs. We also had so much fun celebrating Dr. Seuss' birthday with Dr. Seuss Week! Congratulations to all of our March award and reading challenge winners! P.S. This is a reminder that in order to win the reading challenges each month, your child must complete all of the reading logs in their homework for the month. March was the last opportunity to win a reading challenge. Students who have completed all reading challenges from October until March will receive a special lunch party on May 4th! :)
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