April Happenings

Reading

·         Our comprehension skills will focus on making connections between the books we read and our lives.

·        We will start a unit on folk tales and read different stories and different versions of each.  Please  remember to return the guided reading books back to school.

                                                           Writing

·         We will be writing fiction and nonfiction text, and writing about the characters, setting, and problem/solution of a story.

·                                                                                                                                                              Math

       We are starting a new unit that includes ordinal numbers (1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, etc.) and composing and decomposing numbers (adding and subtracting).

Science and Social Studies

         In Science, we return our focus to animals and compare similar animals to each other and animals to humans.

                                        Dates to Remember

·         April 26 – No school

·       May 5 and 6 – No school – New Kindergarten student orientation