March

March 

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**Literacy**

 

We will begin on our next reading unit called, Meeting Characters and Learning Lessons by reviewing previously taught skills, along with focusing on: taking a sneak peek before reading a book, predicting, retelling a story, and rereading books to notice new details and patterns.For Writers Workshop, we will begin our “From Scenes to Series” writing unit, where the focus will be writing realistic fiction books. When writing a realistic fiction book, we will need to think of a pretend character, give the character a name, think of the setting, think of the trouble the character gets into, plan, sketch and write a realistic adventure for the character, along with including an ending, which will be getting the character out of trouble. In addition, we will work on Unit 10 in Fundations with learning the concept of blending and reading words with 5 sounds (+ suffix ‘s’), segmenting and spelling words with 5 sounds (+ suffix ‘s’), adding suffix ‘ed’ and ‘ing’ to unchanging basewords with closed syllables, and vowel team sounds: oa, oe, ow, ou, oo, ue, ew, au, aw.  Also, we will begin Unit 11 with long vowel sounds for vowel-consonant-e.

    **Math**

We will continue to do the calendar as part of our daily routine, which includes the date, the days of the week, the months of the year, patterns, and counting the days using hundreds, tens, and ones. Also, we will order objects by length, use the Transitivity Principle to measure indirectly, measure length using nonstandard units, make a nonstandard measuring tool to measure length, solve measurement problems using the strategy “act it out,” write times to the hour and half hour shown on analog clocks, tell times to the hour and half hour using analog and digital clocks and use the hour hand to draw and write times on analog and digital clocks.

 

 **Science / Social Studies** 

~ Light and Sound

~ Read Across America

~ Dr. Seuss’s birthday

~ Holidays: St. Patrick’s Day, Passover, Easter

~ Spring