Next week color schedule:
Monday – Yellow - Computer/REAL
Tuesday – Green - Music/Spanish ***Also Library check-out day!
Reading: We continued our work on Unit 3 in LEAD21 - Community Life. Our theme question is: What makes a good community? The focus question that we worked on this week was: How does a community meet its people's needs? We worked on strategies for monitoring comprehension this week. We discussed rereading, reading on, slowing down, asking questions and using picture/text clues. We worked on the vocabulary words: fix and something. We also worked on identifying fantasy and realism. In our big book, Pig Pig Gets a Job, the students discussed why it was a fantasy story. Ask your child about the different reasons why a place is a good place for a community! We also read about goods and services - and how these help build a community and make it a great place to live. We have been connecting reading and social studies this week as we have been learning about our community. We will also continue to work on identifying important information, recall and retelling, making inferences, making connections and using context/picture clues. This week during our assessments we really focused on test taking skills - going back and rereading, reading the questions first, highlighting answers when we find them in the text and using the elimination strategy. The kiddos are really starting to utilize these strategies. Remember the goal is to have your child read at least 10 minutes a day! Don't forget to sign the November reading calendar! Finally, we started The Year of Billy Miller. Ask your child about it!
Spelling/Word Study: This week we focused on the sounds of or. We worked on sounds of ir, er, ur and ear this week in our word study lessons. We also worked in word study this week on synonyms and antonyms. We also worked on the sound and spellings of aw.
Writing Workshop: We are continuing to work on our procedural text, a.k.a. "how to" books! The kiddos had a blast this week as we read "how to books," investigated parts of a procedural text, and tried some writing of our own. Your kiddos began writing their very own how to books. Ask your child about this.
Math: We continued our work with Topic 8: Adding Two-Digit Numbers. This is the topic where we have really been getting into regrouping in addition. Make sure to ask your child how they know when to regroup in addition. We are also working on odd and even numbers as well as weekly computation practice. Make sure to work through the math workbook pages for homework this week! I hope you were able to log on to the xtramath.org website. Check it out!
Social Studies/Science: We began learning all about the Pilgrims at Plymouth. We read books about the first Thanksgiving and started taking notes on interesting facts we learned. We will be using a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast the first Thanksgiving to our own Thanksgiving celebrations.
"Ask Me About": This is a section of questions or items that you should ask your child about! I will provide an "Ask Me About" section each week!
*Tell me about your new read aloud book!
*Tell me about your family meetings!
*What is your class promise?
*What books did you read this week?
*Tell me about Fire Safety!
*What are ways that you can think while you read?
*How do you make a prediction?
*Is it important to predict at the beginning of a book? Why?
*Why is it important to ask questions before, during and after reading?
*What is cause/effect? Can you give me an example?
*How do you monitor your comprehension?
*What is a plot?
*What are adjectives?
*Show me how to get on LEAD21.
*What is a venn diagram? How does it help you compare stories?
*What are homophones? Can you give me some examples?
*What is a synonym? Give me some examples.
*Tell me about xtramath.org
*Did you do any free writing this week?
*Tell me about writing a how to book.
*What things do all how to books have?
*Tell me about adding two-digit numbers.
*How do you know when to regroup when you add?
*How can you use a number line to add?
*How was music, art, gym, Spanish, computer/R.E.A.L.? Tell me what you did in each one!
*What was your favorite part of the week?
Monday – Yellow - Computer/REAL
Tuesday – Green - Music/Spanish ***Also Library check-out day!
Reading: We continued our work on Unit 3 in LEAD21 - Community Life. Our theme question is: What makes a good community? The focus question that we worked on this week was: How does a community meet its people's needs? We worked on strategies for monitoring comprehension this week. We discussed rereading, reading on, slowing down, asking questions and using picture/text clues. We worked on the vocabulary words: fix and something. We also worked on identifying fantasy and realism. In our big book, Pig Pig Gets a Job, the students discussed why it was a fantasy story. Ask your child about the different reasons why a place is a good place for a community! We also read about goods and services - and how these help build a community and make it a great place to live. We have been connecting reading and social studies this week as we have been learning about our community. We will also continue to work on identifying important information, recall and retelling, making inferences, making connections and using context/picture clues. This week during our assessments we really focused on test taking skills - going back and rereading, reading the questions first, highlighting answers when we find them in the text and using the elimination strategy. The kiddos are really starting to utilize these strategies. Remember the goal is to have your child read at least 10 minutes a day! Don't forget to sign the November reading calendar! Finally, we started The Year of Billy Miller. Ask your child about it!
Spelling/Word Study: This week we focused on the sounds of or. We worked on sounds of ir, er, ur and ear this week in our word study lessons. We also worked in word study this week on synonyms and antonyms. We also worked on the sound and spellings of aw.
Writing Workshop: We are continuing to work on our procedural text, a.k.a. "how to" books! The kiddos had a blast this week as we read "how to books," investigated parts of a procedural text, and tried some writing of our own. Your kiddos began writing their very own how to books. Ask your child about this.
Math: We continued our work with Topic 8: Adding Two-Digit Numbers. This is the topic where we have really been getting into regrouping in addition. Make sure to ask your child how they know when to regroup in addition. We are also working on odd and even numbers as well as weekly computation practice. Make sure to work through the math workbook pages for homework this week! I hope you were able to log on to the xtramath.org website. Check it out!
Social Studies/Science: We began learning all about the Pilgrims at Plymouth. We read books about the first Thanksgiving and started taking notes on interesting facts we learned. We will be using a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast the first Thanksgiving to our own Thanksgiving celebrations.
"Ask Me About": This is a section of questions or items that you should ask your child about! I will provide an "Ask Me About" section each week!
*Tell me about your new read aloud book!
*Tell me about your family meetings!
*What is your class promise?
*What books did you read this week?
*Tell me about Fire Safety!
*What are ways that you can think while you read?
*How do you make a prediction?
*Is it important to predict at the beginning of a book? Why?
*Why is it important to ask questions before, during and after reading?
*What is cause/effect? Can you give me an example?
*How do you monitor your comprehension?
*What is a plot?
*What are adjectives?
*Show me how to get on LEAD21.
*What is a venn diagram? How does it help you compare stories?
*What are homophones? Can you give me some examples?
*What is a synonym? Give me some examples.
*Tell me about xtramath.org
*Did you do any free writing this week?
*Tell me about writing a how to book.
*What things do all how to books have?
*Tell me about adding two-digit numbers.
*How do you know when to regroup when you add?
*How can you use a number line to add?
*How was music, art, gym, Spanish, computer/R.E.A.L.? Tell me what you did in each one!
*What was your favorite part of the week?