Week of January 29th!

Reminders:

1) SImage result for light bulb cliparttart looking around for a shoe box for your Valentine’s boxes…information to be sent out soon.

2)Please send in Homework Folders and Book Baggies on Monday.

 

What We’re Learning This Week:

Math-This week will will start comparing numbers using place value. Students will have to understand the different values of tens and ones to do this successfully.

Reading– This week we will be comparing and contrasting the experiences and adventures of characters in the different stories that they read. We will be reading  different versions of some familiar stories to do this.

Phonics- This week we will be learning about words with the ai/ay spelling patterns such as in wait and stay.

Writing-We will continue writing about our opinions about a variety of different topics. We are focusing on how when we write our opinion pieces, our goal is to convince our readers. All of our writing pieces need to have a topic sentence, 3 supporting reasons, as well as a closing sentence. We will also be focusing on be able to independently make revisions to our writing.

Social Studies-We will start learning about accomplishments of President Theodore Roosevelt.

S.T.E.M.- This week we will start discussing the key aspects of an animal’s winter home. Next week we will be building these homes. Students have already started thinking of ideas for the materials they will need to do this and I told them they can start collecting these items at home. Please be on the lookout for a letter to come home requesting these items next week.

Have a wonderful week!

Week of January 22nd!

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What We’re Learning This Week:

Math-Last week we started to add and subtract by 10. This week we will add using multiples of 10, i,e, 32+20=52. As always, please continue to work on addition and subtraction math facts to 20 using flashcards. Flashcards can be easily made or purchased.

Reading– This week we will continue identifying the central message of what we read. We will also identify and write about the details that support this central message, as well as how these messages can be applied to our own lives.

Phonics- This week we will be learning about words with the digraphs th and wh.

Writing-We will be writing about our opinions about a variety of different topics. We are focusing on how when we write our opinion pieces, our goal is to convince our readers. All of our writing pieces need to have a topic sentence, 3 supporting reasons, as well as a closing sentence.

Social Studies-We will continue learning about the expeditions of Lewis and Clark and how Sacagawea was instrumental in their journey.

S.T.E.M.- Last week we started talking about the concept of hibernation. This week we will start discussing the key aspects of an animal’s winter home. Next week we will be building these homes. Students have already started thinking of ideas for the materials they will need to do this and I told them they can start collecting these items at home. Please be on the lookout for a letter to come home requesting these items next week.

Have a wonderful week!

Week of January 16th!

Important Reminders:Image result for light bulb clipart

  • There is No School Monday, January 15th for Martin Luther King Day.
  • FAST classes start this week. If your child is attending a FAST class, I will need a note stating which class they are in, which day and which session. I only need one note because I have a master list and will update that as I receive the letters.
  • This week in the Red Homework folders, I will send home instructions to go onto a great math games website called, Splash Math. Please look for this and go onto this website this week for math review.

What We’re Learning This Week:

Math-Last week we started to add and subtract by 10. This week we will add using multiples of 10, i,e, 32+20=52. As always, please continue to work on addition and subtraction math facts to 20 using flashcards. Flashcards can be easily made or purchased.

Reading– This week we will continue identifying the central message of what we read. We will also identify and write about the details that support this central message, as well as how these messages can be applied to our own lives.

Phonics- This week we will be learning about words with the digraphs th and wh.

Writing-We will be writing about our opinions about a variety of different topics. We are focusing on how when we write our opinion pieces, our goal is to convince our readers. All of our writing pieces need to have a topic sentence, 3 supporting reasons, as well as a closing sentence.

Social Studies-We will continue learning about the expeditions of Lewis and Clark and how Sacagawea was instrumental in their journey.

S.T.E.M.- Last week we started talking about the concept of hibernation. This week we will start discussing the key aspects of an animal’s winter home. Next week we will be building these homes. Students have already started thinking of ideas for the materials they will need to do this and I told them they can start collecting these items at home. Please be on the lookout for a letter to come home requesting these items next week.

Have a wonderful week!

Week of January 8th!

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  • Report Cards were sent home on Friday. Please sign and send back the envelopes. You keep the report card.
  • Monday, January 8th DUE: Please send in 5 of your child’s favorite items from a collection in the paper bag sent home.
  • This Wednesday we go to the ILC. Please send in all library books.
  • Homework Calendars will go home this Monday. As a reminder, weekly work is on the right of the Red Folder-due every Friday, and monthly homework is on the left side and is due on the last Friday of every month.

What We’re Learning This Week:

Math-This week we will be learning how to add to 100 using multiples of 10. Please continue to work on addition and subtraction math facts to 20 using flashcards. Flashcards can be easily made or purchased.

Reading– We will start learning about the central message. Central message is the message or lesson that writers are trying to convey through the stories they write. We will also make connections to their own lives.

Phonics- This week we will be learning about digraphs-ch and sh.

Writing-We will kick off our Opinion Writing unit by sharing, ranking, and giving supporting reasons for our favorite things.

Social Studies-We will start learning about the expeditions of Lewis and Clark.

S.T.E.M.- This month we will devising a winter hibernation habitat for an animal. We will start the imagining and planning phase this week.

Have a wonderful week!