Tuesday, November 21, 2017
Thanksgiving Week
This week, we did a different spin on our reading time! The kids had parts in Thanksgiving themed plays and worked with groups to practice their parts. We talked about how plays help us as readers because we can practice our fluency and expression! Today, we made props for our play and performed for the class. They did an awesome job working together to put on their plays! They will be bringing home their scripts, so they can show you their parts.
Monday, November 20, 2017
Thursday, November 16, 2017
Updates this Week
Announcements:
Winter Party is coming up sooner than you think! Here is the sign up link for our party!
https://m.signupgenius.com/#!/showSignUp/20f0e4ca9ad23a1fd0-winter1
NO HOMEWORK OR FRIDAY FOLDERS due to short week on the week of Thanksgiving.
Math:
This week, we tested over Unit 3. Unit 3 included fact families, subtraction strategies, and explaining our thinking. After Thanksgiving, we will be starting Unit 4! Keep track of our math topics through homework, family math letters, and Everyday Math online to help your child practice at home.
Reading:
Our reading skill focus this week was using our background knowledge to help us understand a story. We read Ox-cart Man and discussed what we already knew about the cover pictures and specific words and phrases in the story. Your child's work on this will be coming home to review. See if they can apply this skill in their at- home reading too!
Writing:
In writing this week, we did mentor sentence work using Memoirs of a Goldfish. We recognized capitals, punctuation, nouns, verbs, and proper nouns. We even made our own versions of sentences to add detail! Students also added more illustrations to their narratives and we discussed how important pictures in the story are to help the reader understand.
Theme:
Students got to go to Mrs. Knoesel's theme this week and start learning about Earth's surfaces! They conducted soil experiments to see what makes up soil. They mixed water and soil, discussed why it settled in layers, then discussed the effects of flooding on the Earth's surface.
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