Dear Families,
Here’s an update on what’s happening in our team:
Reminders:
November 6th: end of first card marking
November 12/13: Special Person Breakfast,7:45-9:00a.m.
November 12-20: Book Fair
November 19th: half day of school with a 12:30 dismissal and Conferences from 1-4 and 5-7 (if you haven't signed up yet, please go to my Signup Genius page)
November 25-29: No school for Thanksgiving Break
Language Arts: This week in Reading Workshop, we continued to work on oral and written nonfiction retellings. Your child practiced retelling a nonfiction article on November and then answered questions based on the article. We practiced how to find text evidence and how to properly answer a question (close reading). Next week, we will begin our second reading unit. This unit focuses on characters. We will learn to identify character traits and discuss how character traits can change throughout a story.
Word Work: In word work, we worked on the long /i/ sound including words with ie, igh, and i_e. It is very helpful to point these types of words out to your child when reading or spelling with him/her at home. We will move on to long /o/ words next week, which have the patterns oa, o-e, and ow.
Writing Workshop: This week, we worked on writing a personal narratives using different writer's craft. We read some mentor texts to see what we could notice about a specific writer's work. We used the text "Rollercoaster," by Marla Frazee. We borrowed some of the craft that we noticed in her book to make our writing more interesting. (ie. onomatopoeia, ellipses, word choice, etc.). Next week, we will continue to work on adding craft to our personal narratives.
Math: This past week, we did lesson 3.2, 3.3, and will do 3.4 on Monday. The Unit three review was sent home on Friday as well as the Unit two test for you to sign and return. If you notice that there is an area that your child may need to practice, please review that skill for homework this week. Next week, we will be working on 3.4, 3.5, 3.8, and 3.9 . These lessons all teach students different subtraction strategies, so if you are using IXL at home, working on any of the subtractions skills will be beneficial.
Science and Social Studies: Last week we worked on collaboration skills and learned how to talk to one another, to listen to one another and how to agree and disagree (think win,win!). We began working on a team project, "Building a Chair," so we could practice these team work strategies. This week, we'll finish up our chairs and begin to study landforms, using some aspects of Project Based Learning such as inquiry, team work, and research.
Homework: We've really been working on using strategies to help to solve addition problems. Knowing your doubles facts really helps with fact power. Have your child practice doubles facts (1+1, 2+2, 3+3, 4+4,5+5, 6+6, 7+7, 8+8, 9+9, 10+10) if he/she doesn't have them memorized.
*Math Homelinks
*IXL Skills: have your child practice in any area they need help in
*Have your child retell a story he/she is reading at home (characters, setting, problem, solution).
*Practice math 10-15 minutes a night and reading for 10-15 minutes a night. Please complete this in any way that works best for you and your family.
Have a great week!
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