April 6th-10th

Hello Families of Room 2!
Listed below are the important reminders and objectives for our week.  Please let me know if you have any questions.  Thanks!

Important Reminders:

• Please continue to remind your child to turn in their March reading log!
• Just a reminder that our testing dates for the MAP test are April 13th in the morning and April 14th in the afternoon. 
• Please send in the map testing letter for your child no later than this Friday the 10th. 
• Monday will begin another week of Aleks homework, all students need to complete is 15 minutes a week!

Weekly Objectives:

Writing:  This week we will continue Adapting and Writing Fairy Tales. We will be publishing our own original fairy tales and read them to our kindergarten buddies on Thursday!

Reading: During reading this week, we are going to begin close reading. Close reading is a reading comprehension strategy in which you analyze a text over multiple days in order to gain a deeper understand of the text.  This week we will focus on close reading a nonfiction text.

Social Studies/Science/Word Study: !e will not have social studies, science, or word study until after the MAP test in order to have extra time to prepare for the test! We will work on reviewing and introducing new math concepts during this time.  We will begin a new science chapter when MAP testing is over.

Math:  This week in math, we will continue Chapter 14: Geometry.  We will focus on polygons, triangles, quadrilaterals , and other shapes!  The test for this chapter will be after MAP testing.

Have a great week!