• As we are beginning to read longer and harder books, our focus this month will be on strenghtening comprehension skills.
• We will be:
  • making making images as we read
  • inferring from the text
  • making connections
  • having book talks
  • reviewing character actions, settings, and tone of stories.

• 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!
• Label all of your child's clothing
• hand in your Zoo permission slips and money
• Passport projects due May 14th

• May 5th - Author visit- Emma Jackson
• May 6th - Ireland presentation by Mrs. Miesner
• May 14th- Passport to Learning projects due
• May 16th - Passport to Learning Program
• May 21st - Israel presentation by Mr. and Mrs. Sperling
• May 23rd - 26th - Memorial Day - school closed (Friday and Monday)
• May 29th - Australia presentation by Mr. and Mrs. Strauss

• 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
• practice counting money and giving change
• practice reading and writing fractional parts of things

• ew, ue, ou, ow, long o spellings, -ng
• comparatives : er, est
• changing y to i rule
• compound words
• SPELLING: we are completing our formal spelling lists this month. Please continue to help your child correct their spelling based on the rules we have learned to date.

• counting money, including dollar bills
• graphs
• place value: 1's, 10's, 100's
• making change (counting up strategy)
• making fractions
• reading fractions
• fractions of sets
• using a number grid to add/subtract double digit numbers
• counting patterns

family letter for unit 9
family letter for unit 10

• begin planting seeds
• identify parts of a flower/plant
• begin butterfly observation journal
• Mother's Day
• Passport to Learning
• observe life in the Learning Habitat
• Memorial Day
• map skills (directions)

Open Circle:

• Problem Solving stop light
• introduce problem box
• leadership skills
• positive self-talk

• Poetry
• Seeing things through a poet's eyes - game: It looks like a ...
• using descriptive language
• imagery
• list poems
• writing with voice and rhythm
• using white space
• using line breaks

Say Something
Miss Maggie by Cynthia Rylant
A Mother for Choco by Keiko Kaszka
Alphabet Atlas
Tops and Bottoms
A Garden for Groundhog
The Reason for a Flower

Where the Sidewalk Ends
Toasting Marshmallows
Little Doggid Poems
Flicker Flash
Random House Book of Poetry