Important Dates & Reminders
- March 31: End of Quarter, 2 Hour Early Release
- April 1: Teacher Workday / No School for Students
- April 4 - 8: Spring Break / No School
Language Arts
What We Learned This Past Month:
Reading
- We learned how to explain and clarify our ideas about a story
- We learned that contributing, listening and responding are equally important roles in a conversation
- We learned how to understand another person’s idea about the text
Writing
- We drew from familiar characters and personal situations to create our own stories
- We used what we know about narrative writing to stretch out the conflict and resolution
- We learned to understand the structure of a narrative story to include a character, setting, problem and solution
What We Will Be Learning Next Month:
Reading
- We will notice and connect word parts to solve multi-syllabic words
- We will learn to adjust our reading as we notice sentence variety
Writing
- We will ask questions about a line of interest
- We will use close observation to learn new information and share this information through our research unit
- We will collaborate and discuss our observations and questions
Math
What We Learned This Past Month:
- We continued to practice how to solve a story problem within 10 using any strategy
- We continued to build automaticity/fluency with facts to 10
- We learned how to explain the way they solved the problem
What We Will Be Learning Next Month:
- We will learn to share a whole equally with two or four shares
- We will learn how to represent fair shares pictorially
- We will learn how to describe shares as equal pieces of parts of the whole
- We will learn to represent halves and fourths of a whole
- We will name fractions represented by drawings or concrete materials for halves and fourths
Science
What We Learned This Past Month:
- We studied animal homes and characteristics
- We studied the plant life cycle from seed to plant
- We learned what a plant needs to survive
What We Will Be Learning Next Month:
- We will continue studying plants, their needs and their life cycle
Social Studies
What We Learned This Past Month:
- We learned about the first Virginians and the settlement of Jamestown
- We learned how to save and spend money responsibly
- We learned about George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and President’s Day
What We Will Be Learning Next Month:
- We will revisit geography and study where people live and how this affects their way of life
- We will learn that geographic features may impact daily life for people around the world (food, shelter, clothing)
- We will complete our Family Life Education unit
- Students will describe a community as people living and working together and will understand that family members make up a type of community
- Students will identify responsibilities of different family members
- Students will identify physical affection as an expression of friendship, celebration and a loving family
- Students will identify strategies to respond to inappropriate behavior from family members, neighbors, strangers and others
