Wow, the middle of May, how time flies!!  I hope all the mother's had a very special day on Sunday!  Your children were all very excited to give you the cards that they made.  They took great care in creating them and the ideas they came up with were priceless!  I know that these will become cherished momentos as the years go on! This week in spelling and word work we will be focusing on the "magic/bossy e" sound.  We want the children to use this strategy automatically when reading.  In writing we will continue working on procedural writing pieces and the proper use of conventions.  They need to always begin sentences with a capital letter, space the words appropriately and end with the proper punctuation.  In math, we will continue working with numbers to 100 and addition and subtraction facts to 20.  It is very important that your children continue to review the doubles facts and making ten facts that are in their homework duotangs and the activities that go along with the hundred chart!