Ask your   child          about   . . .

          (week  of 4/01/13)

*please finish your March reading list and return 
   (April reading sheet was sent home this week)
*activities in music/gym/librar
*getting $1 for following the rules
*look for colored reading folders on Mondays   and Thursdays
*animal day
*baby day
*cookie day
*dinosaur day
*Earth day
*art with Mrs. Rogers

            Math
* 3 D shapes- cone, cylinder, cube, etc.
* completing an April calendar
writing from 300-400
place value  ex.  65  is  6 tens and 5 ones
making and interpreting graphs
odd and even numbers
* adding and subtracting numbers above 10
problem solving skills
daily calendar skills
counting money including quarters
math websites on the computers
counting by 2’s
double digit addition and subtraction
1/2. 1/3, and 1/4

           Reading/ Spelling/ Writing

* Accelerated Reader (AR)
* sound of er as in river
* reading and spelling words with long vowels
*writing about what we like to do when it rains
* Vowel Town sounds
* non fiction information
* putting words in alphabetical order
*practicing sight words
*reading with a voice that sounds like real talking and using expression
  quotation marks
* practicing weekly spelling words/sentences
*retelling stories to show understanding