Things We Are Learning

  • Making short vowel and long vowel sounds
  • Stretching sounds in three-letter words
  • Sounding out three-letter nonsense words (rab, fej)
  • Correct writing formation of first and last name
  • Counting by 1’s, 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s
  • Introduction of tally marks
  • Standard and non-standard uses of measurement
  • Counting backward from 20
  • Addition to 12
  • Identification of numbers 1-75
  • Kid writing
  • Telling time to the hour
  • Working with calculators
  • Interpreting graphs
  • Writing a response to a writing prompt
  • Money: identifying and naming quarter, dime, nickel and penny
  • Making change for nickels and dimes
  • Using basic sight words in reading and writing
  • Word and sentence dictation
  • Capitals, periods and spaces between words
  • Pounding and sliding sounds together to read words
  • Finger spelling to segment sounds in words and use those sounds to write words

Book Orders

Please send any orders to me by March 9thwith checks payable to Scholastic or place your order online. Our class online code is – HJQWY.

International Fair Family Night

Check out the PTO International Fair on Friday, March 18th from 5:00-8:00pm at the Elementaryand ECC Schools. We will have over 40 country booths, games, crafts, and a parade. Come join the fun!

Second TrimesterConferences

The second trimester will end on March 4th. Parent-teacher report card conferences will be held March 21-23. Please be sure to look online for a time to come in if you are not able to make the time on the conference reminder that has already been sent home. If you are unable to attend conferences, your child’s report card will be sent home upon his/her return from Spring Recess. Looking forward to discussing your child’s progress at our upcoming conferences!

Homework

Attached please find the following homework assignments.

  • Reading Street weekly homework sheets
  • March Letter Naming Fluency and Nonsense Word Fluency practice pages (we are really focusing on our short vowel sounds)
  • March Reading calendar
  • Math Homelinks

Reading Incentive

Your March “Blast Off Into Reading” student reading record paper will be sent home. Please keep reading with your child. Remember to return the reading record when it is completed so your child can be entered into a drawing to win a free book! Have fun!