We have finished our reading unit with the theme “Things that go”. We are now beginning our new unit with the theme “Our neighborhood at work”. We have learned digraphs such as th, sh, and ch. The kids should know how to use these spellings correctly. For the ch sound, they know that tch is only after a short vowel. We have been spending a lot of time working on comprehension.
This is the time of year when we are working a lot on writing applications as well as conventions. This is when we really solidify those two skills together. Of course, this is an ongoing skill to practice. We just practice as much as possible to meet those end of the year standards.

 In math, we have wrapped up a chapter on charts and graphing. We learned how to read and use a tally chart, bar graph, and picture graph. The kids are really good at counting tally marks. We say, “1, 2, 3, 4, tally up 5”.