We Are In For Some Great Weather!!

This week looks great in the weather department!! We are all going to have spring fever! I can't wait.
A look at the week ahead:
In ELA - Our phonics focus this week is long vowel e. We will be concentrating on -ee and -ea words. The students will "Read the Room" in search of -ee and -ea words and write them down as they go. We will also be discussing contractions - 've and 're. Our comprehension focus this week will be Cause and Effect. The story we will be reading in our anthology will be "Little Rabbit's Tale", a folktale by Wong Herbert Yee. Little Rabbit gets hit in the head by a falling apple and rushes off to tell his friends that the sky is falling. Cause and Effect - What caused Little Rabbit to think the sky is falling? What caused Little Rabbit's friends to be upset?
Our grammar focus will be describing words: color, size and shape.
In Math - We will start the week off by looking at making ten to add. If our addition sentence is 8+6, what strategy could we use to help us figure out the sum? We could make 10 by taking to away from 6 and adding it to 8....now I have 10+4 and that is 14. We will be using manipulatives and 10 frames to teach this skill. It is a difficult concept to pick up and by using a kinesthetic approach it helps the students make the connection and remember the skill. We will also discuss doubles fact families and relating addition and subtractions facts to 20.
In science: This week we will continue with our weather unit by talking about clouds. What different types of clouds are there? What words can you use to describe clouds?

Dates to remember this week:
Thursday, March 15th is CRAZY HAT DAY and popcorn day. If you would like your child to have popcorn for snack on Thursday please send in $1.
Thank you!

Have a wonderful week!!!
Mrs. M
Mrs. Cataldo
Mrs. Fiore