Newsletter 4/27

Mrs. Besselman’s Bulletin                               4/27/14

Goals for the week:

To work on counting coins and their value.

To continue to add and subtract and to apply to problem solving.

To identify and extend patterns.

To review all short and long vowel sounds.

To learn more about vowel pairs and magic e.

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

To practice identifying and using contractions.

 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. Her, first, part, form, hard, far, for, or, no, go, so, he, be, she, me, Take, home, name, make, line, those, white, and while, side, lie, use, time, came, made, these, life, same, singing, hoping, running, better, paper, ever, over, after, until, began, being, begin, dinner, by, my, why, try, story, study, funny, happy, way, may, rain, wait, tail, Sunday, maybe, paid, see, need, keep, each, read, three, fee, field, key, road, coat, own, show, toe, below, yellow, tie, pie,

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, very, once and whose here, from, give, live, where, there, whom, today, does.

Word study words this week :  head, read, bread, heavy, ready meant, weather, breath, thread, sweater.

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 Tug of War, The Kapok Tree, and The Umbrella.

To write using varied beginnings in our sentences.

To identify story structure especially setting.

To identify sequence in a story.

To compare and contrast.

To use describing words.

To begin planting seeds as part of our new science plant unit.

 

Homework : Earth Day Project due next week 

Monday: complete an activity on your READO or WRITE board

Tuesday: Study math facts subtraction

Wednesday: 100 things about me book, next prompt

Thursday:  Study word study words unit 24 and 25