This week we will…
-Read the story, The Dot, and discuss how we can create treasures.
-Work with the vowel team -ea (long e sound in team) and changing y to i before adding inflected endings (happy becomes happier and happiest).
-Check our reading comprehension and complete reading assessments as we wrap up our third quarter! My how time flies!!!
-Practice our spelling words: eat, sea, each, team, please, dream, treat, beach, clean, lean, colors, sign. There will be no bonus words this week.
-Work with the high-frequency words (word wall words): colors, draw, drew, great, over, show, sign.
-Continue AR and our Rocket Math program.
-Work with problem solving skills for addition and subtraction.
-Complete some math assessments to check our understanding as we move into the fourth quarter.
-Review and continue the comparing numbers chapter that we started with the substitute before standardized testing.
Reminders:
-We completed all of our Standardized Tests for first grade! The children worked very hard and we are very proud of them.
-This week we will return to a normal class routine. Thank you for your patience as Mrs. O’Neill was out of town and then we transitioned into the testing schedule.
-Next week is a short week. Conferences will be held on Thursday, April 5th. If you cannot make your conference time please respond to the e-mail as soon as possible so we can try to figure out a new schedule.
-Passover Break begins on April 6th and continues until April 16th. School resumes on Tuesday, April 17th. 
