• Continuing our Non-fiction unit of study by sharing facts that we have learned.
• Further comprehension skills through character study:
  • read books with same characters
  • discuss characters actions
  • compare characters to others in books, self, and other people we know
  • predict story outcome by what we know about characters

• Check your child's folder every night for notes and homework.
• Remember to read with your child each night and fill in the star paper!
• Dress your child appropriately as the weather gets warmer!
• Label all of your child's clothing
• Send in a healthy snack everyday!

• March 2nd - Dr. Seuss's birthday
• March 3rd-7th Read Across America
• March 6th - Sweden presentation
• March 9th- Daylight Savings
• March 14th -Russia presentation
• March 14th - Books vs. Badges game
• March 17th - St. Patrick's Day
• March 21st -No School - Good Friday

• ask your child questions as he/she reads their story at night
• practice addition/subtraction flash cards (fact triangles)
• practice counting forward and backward from any number
• tell and solve number stories
• review coins - values and counting mixed coins
• send in tissues if you have any - we have many runny noses!
• Ask your child if they need any replacement supplies: pencils, erasers, dry-erase markers, glue sticks, crayons, and/or colored pencils.

• long vowel spellings: u-e, v, e-e, ee, ea, qu, y, ie
• changing y to i rule
• adding to root words
• contractions
• homophones
• rhyming words
• SPELLING: short e, review short vowels, and high frequency words (the, to, said, etc)

• time to hour and half hour
• addition/subtraction facts table
• Fact families/ Fact triangles
• measurement -cm.
• What's my rule?
• Equivalent names
• place value
• money - counting with quarters
• use math reference book

(refer to unit 6 family letter for assistance)

• Passport to Learning : Sweden and Russia
• identify properties of solid objects: rolling, stacking, hardness, floating and sinking
• identify signs of Spring

Open Circle Concepts:

• leadership qualities
• problem solving strategies
• using stop light

• Non-Fiction writing
• adding non-fiction features to writing:
  • Table of Contents
  • index
  • glossary
  • graphs, maps, charts
  • fun facts
• revising writing
• writing about topics we know about

Reader's Workshop character study books:
Franklin
Biscuit
Henry and Mudge
Clifford
Sam
Magic Matt