newsletter 4/8/13

Mrs. Besselman’s Bulletin                               4/9/12

Goals for the week:

To continue problem solving and addition and subtraction.

To use fact families to help us to add and subtract.

To use doubles to help us to add and subtract.

To work on Fact Fluency.

To count money.

To review all short  and long vowels.

To continue reading and writing words with a bossy r.

To identify open syllables and to know that open syllable words have a long vowel sound.

To learn more about magic e.

To hear and identify syllables.

To review all the phonics rules we have been learning so far.

To identify compound words.

To identify and use contractions.

To write using colorful verbs and describing words.

Word study words to know: am, at, cat, sat, bat, fat, as, has, can, an, man, had, van, sad, to, bad, rag, in big, is, did, if, it, his, pack, said, sick, tack, back, kid, cab, of sack, pack, Its, him, quit, six, fix, wax, on, got, not, box, job, off, will, miss, fix, pass, long, ring, pink, what, bank, sang. inch, whip, whiff, chill, that, thing, with, this, dish, thank, well, men get, tell, set, let, when, them, then, Flag, plan, sled, class, glad, black, fresh, bring, grass drink, crack, press, Twin, spell, still, swim, snack, skin, smell, Up, truck, sun, but, us, clock, napkin, cannot, upset, into jacket, path, spring, scrub, scrap, splash, string, squid, and, last, hand, best, went, end, left, desk, help, must, do and, two, many, milk, kept, such, much, which, rich, catch, pitch, stitch, stretch, far, part, charm, jar, dark, star, park.

Red words to know, to, the, have, said, of, was, you, are, put, what, should, would, could, they, your,  Mr. and Mrs., into,  were, do, and, two, many.

Word study words this week No, go, so, he, be, she, me, my, by.  red word:very

To continue to use capital letters and punctuation in sentences.

To self edit our writing using our writer’s eye.

To listen and respond to If The Dinosaurs Came Back.

To listen to Cloudy with a chance of meatballs and imagine what we would like to rain from the sky.

To identify story structure.

To identify sequence in a story.

To make predictions.

To learn about spring, rain and the water cycle.

To practice reading with fluency.

Homework :  

Monday: literacy activity page

Tuesday:  Scholastic News Magazine

Wednesday:  Longwood trip  Please dress for walking and the weather and pack a brown bag lunch

Thursday: study math facts and word study words. 

Please send in a baggie(marked with a name) with the following coins for next weeks lessons on money: 2 quarters, 5 dimes, 10 nickels, 10 pennies.