April
Sight Words
April Sight Words
also over
both own
call ran
end read
far shall
five such
high sure
kind than
most thing
must too
near until
only way
open
Newsletter Mrs. Mac's Contact Information: Grovecrest Elementary 801-785-8714Email: bmclelland@alpinedistrict.org Webpage: http://my.uen.org/myuen/46643PARENTS,We will be tie-dying easter eggs on Friday, April 6th. Please send a hard boiled egg with your first grader!LAST book order for the year due Friday, April 20th.Thank you for all your support and help! MARCH REVIEWMarch has been a busy month with a lot of progress. We are starting to act like second graders. Reading is our main focus and we are concentrating on fluency. We are also working on inference and comprehension strategies.We have been working on addition and subtraction strategies and place value. We are also experts at reading the clock and we are practicing adding money. We have learned about the weather, reading maps, the properties of water, plants, rocks and soil.We had a little “magic” this month celebrating St. Patrick’s Day. We’ve been learning lots of songs during singing time and we have finished learning about each president of the U.S. LOOKING AHEAD IN APRIL:April 2-6 the PTA is sponsoring a Scholastic Book Fair. It is being held in the Media Center.April 9-13 is our Spring Break. I hope you all enjoy a little time away from school. April 18th I will be administering our final DRA Benchmark reading assessment.April 20th FINAL BOOK ORDER DUE April and May combinedThe end of the school year is rapidly approaching. We will be ending the year with a lot of important learning and assessing. It is so important for our students to be on time and in attendance. Thank you for everything you do to support our classroom. I have had a wonderful year teaching your children. They are a great group. Two more months to go!
Curriculum Topics we will be studying in class Language and ReadingWord WorkSuffixes (endings: ing, ed, est, er)/ow, /ou/ReviewLanguageReviewSentence structure, word orderWriting declarative and interrogative sentencesWritingWriting a storyMain charactersRetelling a storyWriting Process (Emphasis on revising and editing)Reading StrategiesExpressionContractionsCaptionsAudienceReread, monitor for understandingUsing context clues to determine meaning of wordsOnomatopoeia (sound words)Spellingweek 26: turn, burn, far, car, jar, would, oneweek 27: sometime, anytime, someone, anyone, something, anything, school, theirSPRING BREAKweek 28: boy, toy, coin, boil, soil, again, funnyMathUnit 8 Twos, Fives and Tens Looking at our Base Ten Number SystemMoney: quarter, dime, nickel and penny (fifty cent piece)Missing addendsEqualities/InequalitiesAddition/Subtraction factsPracticing math facts above tenCharacter Development/Social SkillsFeelings/Conflict ResolutionResisting peer pressureExpressing feelingsResolving a disagreementP.E./ArtJump ropes and passingSeasonal and holiday art projectsWater colorOther Topics of InterestEarth Day/Arbor DaySpring flowersAnimalsEasterStates and capitol cities