This week we will be working on the following skills:

Math

We continue exploring how students can use groups of 2’s, 5’s, or 10’s to solve addition problems more quickly

Reading

This week we will take a Benchmark Test to see how much we have learned during our unit on "Silly Stories." We will also learn about Main Idea and Facts and Details. The main idea of a paragraph or story tells the most important idea. Facts and Details help explain the main idea. While you read this week ask your child about the main idea and the supporting fats and details.

We have been exploring the different sounds that vowels make. This week we will continue reviewing short and long vowel sounds. Long vowel sounds say the name of the vowels. For example:

long /a/ as in gate

long /e/ as in need

long /i/ as in nice

long /o/ as in yoke

long /u/ as in you

Short vowels on the other hand make the vowel sound. For example:

short /a/ as in bat

short /e/ as in bet

short /i/ as in insect

short /o/ as in orange

short /u/ as in umbrella

Grammar

We are going to be continue reviewing sentences. Remind your child that a sentence expresses a complete thought and has two parts: a naming part and an action part. The naming part tells whom or what the sentence is about; the action part tells what is happening.

Spelling: homophones (words that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings)

bear, bare, flour, flower, pear, pair, ate, eight, hole, whole, know, no, sew, so, meat, meet

Writing

We will continue or discussion about the importance of character and setting in our stories. The character(s) are who or what the story is about. The setting tell when and where the story took place. Please remind your child to use a capital letter at the beginning of their sentence and a punctuation mark at the end.

Social Studies

We will continue working on our Social Studies unit called “People and Places.”