Hats Off to March :

Mrs. Bonnie Griffith

E-mail: bgriffith@rrps.net

Phone: 338-2320 ext.108

Important Reminders:

• Help your child remember to put their name on their homework!
• Monthly Reading Logs and Book Projects are a requirement and make up a large portion of your child's grade. Please support your child in completing these and returning them to school!
• Field Trip Packets and $3.00 Fee are due back to school on Monday March 8th.  I will draw names for chaperones at that time.  I will contact you and let you know if you will/will not be a chaperone. 

Learning Objectives:

March 1-5

• Write and read words with the long o sound.
• Ask questions about the stories I read.
• Write using simple rhymes.
• Practice counting and exchanging coins.
• Introduce dollars.
• Extend place value concepts beyond 100.
• Solve addition and subtraction number stories.
• Practice how to count up to make change.
• Explore and extend the work of Dr. Suess!

March 8-12

• Write and read words with the long o sound. 
• Ask questions about the stories I read.
• Use conventional spelling for the high frequency wors that I should know.
• Explore fractions.
• Show what I have learned this quarter.

March 15-19

Spring Break!

March 22-26

• Write and read words with the long u sound.
• Use conventional spelling for the high frequency words that I should know. 
  Count, add, and subtract with tens and ones using number-grid patterns.
• Add and subtract 2-digit numbers.
• Extend fractions.
• Discuss the state of New Mexico and its symbols.

March 29-March 31

• Read and write contractions.
• Ask questions about the stories I read.
• Use conventional spelling for the high frequency words that I should know.
• Compare fractions.
• Name equivalent fractions.
• Discuss the plants and animals of New Mexico.