Conference forms are due back by Monday, November 13th
No School Friday, November 10th We are in need of following donations: paper towels, thin expo markers and hand soap Turkey Toss: Monday November 20th...notice is coming home today Thanksgiving week: Monday (2hr delay), Tuesday (No school), Wednesday (1/2 day), Thursday & Friday (No School) Math: We are wrapping up Unit 2 in Math. I am going to be giving the kids their end of unit assessment on Thursday. Number stories are our main focus. Reading: We have spent the past few weeks using reading strategies while reading. I have also introduced the kids to Scholastic News. It is a non-fiction magazine that teaches the kids about current events. We also practice finding non-fiction text features while reading. We will be starting to read a realistic fiction book in our literature circles this week. Writing: We are ready to start writing our personal narratives. The kids carefully chose a topic that they are invested in writing about. Stay tuned for some fun stories! We have also been working on common and proper nouns. We are having fun in science and this week we will be adventuring outside for a fossil dig. In Social Studies we are exploring the land of Massachusetts. Tessa and Zoe an amazing job teaching Mrs. Agneta about Visualizing. They read the book Where the Wild Things Are and stopped to visualize along the way! Reading strategies are happening in room 119!
Wow...the first month of school flew by! I am happy to say we had a smooth transition. We spent many weeks setting up reading, math and writing workshop. The class now knows my expectations and we are off and ready to learn!
Here are the highlights of the next few weeks: Writing: Learning how to jot ideas in our Writer's Notebook. In a few weeks we will pick one of our ideas and start writing a Personal Narrative. Reading: What strategies do good readers use while reading? We will focus on visualizing, inferencing, predicting and making connections. Social Studies: Map making! We will learn all the key elements of making a map. A map project will be coming home soon! Science: Where do organisms live and how do environments change? Math: Number stories, elapsed time, bar graphs and rounding. Unit 1 is filled with different math concepts. At home it would be great if you practiced telling time and elapsed time. |
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