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We enjoyed our Frog Festival ! Thank you to those families that were able to attend. This month we are continuing studying fractions and practicing comparing fractions using manipulatives. Students also reasoned about the size of fractions by thinking about the size of the piece (i.e. ⅛ is less than ⅓ because eighths are smaller than thirds). In Foundations' we are studying what happens when we add a suffix to words ending in “y”. Usually we change the “y” to an “i” and then add the suffix (i.e. study becomes studied). However, if the suffix begins with an “i”, then we keep the “y” (i.e. study becomes studying) 

Important Dates:

•  April 4 and April 6: ELA MCAS Testing - more information to come 

  This month we will be continuing our Connecting Places, Connecting People" Unit. We will be reading informational text entitled "Meet Young Immigrants" & "Drum Dream Girl" and answering the question "What can we learn by exploring stories and music from different places?". We will be finishing up our autobiographies written in poem form. In Phonics, we will be working with r- controlled vowels in multisyllabic words. In math we our working with our fluency within 20 and knowledge within 100. We will be using place value to add and subtract.  

The First Graders continue to learn about Non-fiction texts in both reading and writing.  

In reading, we are learning about “ordinary people who changed the world.” So far, this has included known figures like Martin Luther King, but also some lesser-known stories like the one of Emmanuel Yesboah. Ask your child what it takes for an ordinary person to change the world!

In phonics, we are finishing up r-controlled vowels (ar, or, er, ir, ur) and will start to focus on breaking up longer words. While students are reading, if they get to a tricky word tell them to look for parts they know inside of a word. 

 In math, students have been working on solving addition and subtraction problems efficiently. That means that we are really focussing on quicker math strategies like counting on and use what you know. Here are some examples of how you might use these strategies!