News From the Pond

Here’s What We’re Working On:

Reading

Theme 9 Week 3:  The Surprise Family

This week we read about a boy who raises a chick.  After the chick grew into a hen, she wanted to raise her own family.  One day her babies went swimming and she discovered that she raised ducklings instead of chicks!   For activities to reinforce what we are working on at school you can go to the following  link:  www.eduplace.com

• Compare/Contrast- have your child teach you using gestures
• Asking Questions- have your child sing, “I ask questions” and “Oh I Wonder”
• High-Frequency Words
• Spelling- the vowel sound in coin
• Grammar- Describing what we see
• Vowel Pairs- oi, oy, aw, au

Spelling List:  Pretest will be- Thursday, May 3rd  Final Test will be- Friday,  May 4th

•  store                       more
• corn                         or
• for                            morning
• afford                      before

Math

• Fact practice- Subtraction
• Fact Assessment 19
• Identify geometric solids
• Identify and draw polygons
• Identify a fractional part of a set
• Counting dimes, nickels and pennies
• Measure and draw a line segment to the nearest centimeter
• Adding 3 digit single numbers
• Divide a set of objects by sharing
• Calendar Time (have your child tell you some of the things we do during this time)

Other News

• Keep Practicing Fry’s 100 Words to Know