I hope that you stayed warm during this snowy weekend! Last week we continued to learn about individuality. We read the stories Snow Bently, Ruby's Wish and Snow learning about the similarities and differences with snow flakes along with ourselves and the rest of our classmates. We spent the week focusing on money and word problems. This week we will be looking at graphing, learning how to make bar graphs and pictographs. In writing we are learning how to edit our stories to prepare for publication of our nonfiction pieces. As we head into our final week before winter break, here are some updates on what to expect. Our homework menu has been sent home tonight as usual, but will be returned THIS Friday. While students are expected to read over winter break, they will not be expected to log it for the two weeks out of school. Instead, we will be doing a Flat Stanley Project. I will be sending home further instructions on that tomorrow. To give you a preview, students have been learning about Flat Stanley and his connection to his community. All of the students have designed their own Flat Stanley to bring home over winter break. Each student needs to take at least 5 pictures (maximum 10) to document how and what you do with Flat Stanley either in our community or out of the state. We will be relating this adventure back to our social studies unit as well as creating a writing project about Flat Stanley's adventure. Again, I will send out further instruction to clarify what the project is tomorrow.
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I hope that you had a good weekend! We had a wonderful week back from Thanksgiving last week. We learned about how liquids move and form to different shaped containers. In math, we are working on using transition words to help organize our math thinking and explain how we solve a problem. We are also working on regrouping in addition and subtraction with two digit numbers.
As we look forward to our first normal scheduled week back, there will be nothing out of the ordinary! This week we will be looking at money and regrouping in math. We will be continuing on in our informational how to writing, as well as begin learning about our new unit of individuality. Last trimester we were focused on change and how change effects us, our community and our world. We will be connecting change to how we change as individuals to become not only ourselves, but part of a group, a classroom, a school, a community and even the world. Finally, last week I sent home a new login for students on a math website called Ten Marks. It is very similar to Xtramath and Dreambox but it is aligned directly to what the students are learning in math. Xtramath and Dreambox will provide students with different math skills that need to learn throughout the year but Ten Marks math work is assigned directly from me on the specific standard and skill that the students are working on in class. If you have any further questions on it please do not hesitate to ask! |
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