• Continue character study by discussing:
  • how characters change throughout story
  • if you would be their friend
  • how are characters alike/different from other characters? from you?
• Begin reading poetry
• Notice different types of poems

• fill out and return the Passport to Learning project form by April 17th.
• If you want input into your child's placement for next year, please return the form to Mrs. Vernon
• Label all of your child's clothes
• Send in a healthy snack everyday!

• April 1st - Book Fair
• April 7th - Report Cards go home
• April 11th - Passport to Learning - Poland
• April 18th - Passport to learning - Ireland
• April 21st - 25th school closed for Spring Break

• ask your child questions as he/she reads their story at night
• practice counting coins and making change
• practice addition/subtraction flash cards (fact triangles)
• practice counting forward and backward from any number
• tell and solve number stories
• THANK YOU for sending in Spring Cleaning supplies!
• Keep sending in tissues and paper towel tubes.

• ay, ai, oa, -igh, long u spellings, long o spellings
• changing y to i rule
• adding to root words
• contractions
• homophones
• rhyming words
• SPELLING: high-frequency words, long i_e, o_e, and vce patterned words

• time to 5 minute interval
• addition/subtraction facts
• Number stories
• measurement -cm.
• counting change, including quarters
• geometric figures
• 3-D shapes
• symmetry

Family Letters:
unit 7
unit 8

• Passport to Learning: Ireland and Poland
• poetry month
• map skills
• identify properties of solid objects: compare to liquids
  Open Circle concepts:
  
• identify and understand feelings of others
• practice calming techniques
• using stop light approach to problem solving:
• RED - Stop, Calm down, Say how you feel
• YELLOW- Think of many ways to solve the problem
• GREEN- choose a solution and try it!

• Publish Non-fiction stories
• begin study of poetry: list poems, "from the heart" poems, talking to objects, place poems, poet's craft
• using imagery
• using rhyme, repetition, and voice
• shaping a poem
• re-visiting a poem
• making a small moment story into a poem