Week of November 28-December 2
Next week color schedule:
Monday – Blue – Art
Tuesday – Red – Spanish/Music
Wednesday – Orange – PE/Spanish
Thursday – Yellow – Computer/REAL
Friday –Green – Music/PE
Reading: We wrapped up 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 are communities alike and different? We worked on strategies for monitoring comprehension this week. We discussed rereading, reading on, slowing down, asking questions and using picture/text clues. We used venn diagrams a lot this week to compare and contrast how communities are alike and how they are different. Make sure to ask your child about the cities they compared in their small reading groups. We reviewed all of our vocabulary words and discussed whether they were nouns, verbs or adjectives. 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. This week, we discussed reasons why people might choose to live in 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 December reading calendar! I continued to read the chapter book, The Year of Billy Miller to the class.
Spelling/Word Study: This week in our word study lessons, we worked on the sound and spellings of aw. We continue to work on the verb tenses of past and present and adding s/es to verbs. We also worked on homophones and synonyms/antonyms.
Writing Workshop: We wrapped up our work on our procedural text, a.k.a. "how to" books! The kiddos had a blast this week as many of them shared their very own how to book. They are working on turning them into PowerPoint presentations in computer class.
Math: We began Topic 9: Subtracting Two-Digit Numbers this week. We are focusing on regrouping with subtraction. 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 our unit over Matter in science. This week we explored different materials and their properties. We did a science investigation where we classified/sorted objects based on a certain property. The kiddos are really learning to use descriptive language and are becoming very observant scientists. We will continue this unit over the next several weeks.
"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 family meetings!
*What is your class promise?
*What books did you read this week?
*Tell me about the Fire Safety!
*What are ways that you can think while you read?
*What is cause/effect?
*What are a noun, verb and adjective?
*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?
*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..
*Tell me about adding two-digit numbers.
*Tell me about properties of matter.
*Tell me about subtraction with regrouping.
*How do you know when to regroup when you subtract?
*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?
Next week color schedule:
Monday – Blue – Art
Tuesday – Red – Spanish/Music
Wednesday – Orange – PE/Spanish
Thursday – Yellow – Computer/REAL
Friday –Green – Music/PE
Reading: We wrapped up 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 are communities alike and different? We worked on strategies for monitoring comprehension this week. We discussed rereading, reading on, slowing down, asking questions and using picture/text clues. We used venn diagrams a lot this week to compare and contrast how communities are alike and how they are different. Make sure to ask your child about the cities they compared in their small reading groups. We reviewed all of our vocabulary words and discussed whether they were nouns, verbs or adjectives. 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. This week, we discussed reasons why people might choose to live in 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 December reading calendar! I continued to read the chapter book, The Year of Billy Miller to the class.
Spelling/Word Study: This week in our word study lessons, we worked on the sound and spellings of aw. We continue to work on the verb tenses of past and present and adding s/es to verbs. We also worked on homophones and synonyms/antonyms.
Writing Workshop: We wrapped up our work on our procedural text, a.k.a. "how to" books! The kiddos had a blast this week as many of them shared their very own how to book. They are working on turning them into PowerPoint presentations in computer class.
Math: We began Topic 9: Subtracting Two-Digit Numbers this week. We are focusing on regrouping with subtraction. 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 our unit over Matter in science. This week we explored different materials and their properties. We did a science investigation where we classified/sorted objects based on a certain property. The kiddos are really learning to use descriptive language and are becoming very observant scientists. We will continue this unit over the next several weeks.
"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 family meetings!
*What is your class promise?
*What books did you read this week?
*Tell me about the Fire Safety!
*What are ways that you can think while you read?
*What is cause/effect?
*What are a noun, verb and adjective?
*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?
*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..
*Tell me about adding two-digit numbers.
*Tell me about properties of matter.
*Tell me about subtraction with regrouping.
*How do you know when to regroup when you subtract?
*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?