Week of May 13^th-17^th

Our Reading story for the week is “Building Beavers!”. Our question of the week is: How do beavers build their homes? The Amazing Words for this story are: beaver, paddle, stream, lodge, river, lake. The high frequency words are: the, like, was, from, to. The text based comprehension skill is main idea. We will listen for /e/ spelled Ee in the initial and medial position of a word. Please practice reading the “Jim and Kim” decodable story. *Each decodable story can be recorded for the monthly Reading Logs. J

In Math, we will continue our Money unit. We have learned to identify the penny, nickel, dime and quarter as well as their values. We will be finishing up with the dollar bill.  

Math DIBELS testing will begin this Wednesday, May15th. Students will be expected to identify numbers to 100 out of order, name the next number (you say 55, student says 56), and distinguish and say the larger amount of dots when given two sets. Please see the practice page attached to this newsletter for an example. All three portions of the test are timed for one minute. We have been working on these skills all year long.

We will be shopping at the Scholastic Book Fair this Wednesday, May 15^th, during our Special time. If your child is shopping this day, please be sure to send money in a labeled envelope.

           

Upcoming important dates:

·         5/15 –Book Fair Shopping Day

·         5/17-$1.00 Dress Down

·         5/17-Wedding of Q and U (more info to come)

·         5/21-Spartan Games

Monday is Day 5/10-Computers, Tuesday is Day 1/6-Art, Wednesday is Day 7-Library, Thursday is Day 3/8-Gym, Day 4/9-Music.

If you ever need to contact me, please call the school at 570-874-3661 ext. 3243 or email at scapone@northschuylkill.net.