Oct. 25th

This week was busy and jam packed with learning!

Reading and Comprehension: We will be looking at solution in stories this coming week. We will look at a variety of texts with a variety of problems and solution. 

• I will be sending home Reading homework today and it will be due next Friday.
• Book It forms. IF you have been doing your Book It forms they will be due on the 31st! Remember this was optional. 

Phonics: We will be learning digraph (two letters that make one sound) CH and WH. We will also be reviewing our vowels sounds.

Math: We have been looking at how to efficiently count by 5s. We will be looking at using our addition strategies next week. We want our students to have a variety of strategies to use. I would like to see students be able to solve simple addition problems quicker.

• I am sending home Math work(pages 31 and 32) this will be due on Monday.
• Math homework will be coming home on Tuesday (33-37) and will be due on Wednesday.
• Math homework will be coming home next Friday (39-40) and will be due the following Monday. 
• I have noticed some families moving ahead in the workbook. I appreciate you taking the initiative but there are some workbook pages that will not make sense without that day's lesson. 

Social studies: Next week we will be looking at leaders and their attributes. We will be looking at George Washington, Abe Lincoln, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Ben Franklin.

Oct. 17

Hello families!

I had a family emergency and will not at school today. I will be back to school on Tuesday.

• There is NO reading homework for this coming week! Enjoy! 
• Math homework will come home on Wednesday (pages 29 and 30) and will be due Thursday. 
• Math Homework will come home on Friday (pages 30 and 31) and will be due the following Monday.

This coming week we will have film crews in our room either on Wednesday and Thursday. Our schedule may change slightly so please be flexible and understanding this week!

Comprehension: We will be continuing to search for and identify the problem in stories that we read. Keep reading this week even though there is no homework!!! Also another website that is great for reading would be Readworks.org. You can change the level of the passages!

Phonics: Since this week was short and next week will also be short I would like to review what we have already learned. This will help keep the phonics knowledge fresh.

Math: We are still working on different strategies to add and subtract. Students have been doing great on their assessment and we will continue with regular curriculum next week.

• Math center volunteers

Science: We wrapped up our engineering unit by redesigning a backpack. Next week will be starting our civics unit.

Oct. 11th

Hello!

Weather: Please be sure to send jackets or coats if the weather is cold. Always assume we will have outdoor recess just to be safe. Please LABEL everything!!!!!!

Reading/Comprehension: We will be looking at fairy tales and what the problem of the story is. This is great for readers to identify so they can better understand what they are reading. The problem isn't always super clear in stories so please help your student identify them if they need help.

• Homework is coming home today and will be due on Thursday (Oct. 17th). It is a short week so please be mindful of that when doing homework.

Phonics: We will be looking at different words with both long and short e. It would be great to review these sounds at home. Short E video and Long E video

• Please be review the Rapid word charts that are coming home. You can unattach it from the homework if you would like to keep it at home.

Math: We will be pausing on our curriculum and doing our Math Numeracy assessment next week. Students will be tested one on one with me. The other students will be playing academic math games.

This assessment is just to gauge what your student's strength and weakness are in math.

• Math homework will be coming home today and will be due on Monday, Oct. 14th (pages 27 and 28).
• There will be no math homework next week due to the assessment. Enjoy!

Science: We have had a great time looking at different simple machines and technologies that make our world better. We have been exploring engineering and design. This has been a fun unit so far and will continue into next week.

Conferences are continuing into next week! Please be sure you double check your time, the link is on the previous post.

Oct 4th

Hello!

Reading/Comprehension: We have been working on finding evidence to prove our guesses on what the setting is in our books. We can find evidence in words or pictures. It would be helpful for students if you ask questions about the story's setting at home and then have them find evidence in words or pictures about where the story takes place!

• Don't forget to do your reading logs! They are due every Friday with your student's name on it!!!

Phonics: We will be working on our next digraph (two letters that make one sound). Th makes two sounds, voiced and unvoiced. Unvoiced TH is used in the word thumb. Your voice box is not being used in the TH part of the word thumb. The voiced TH is used in the word there. If you hold your hand to your throat on /th/  you will feel your voice box vibrating.

Math: We are cruising into next week. We have been looking a numerous fact families. We are discovering what makes a fact family while exploring different was to use addition.

• Homework today! Due back on Monday. (Pages 23 and 24)
• Homework is coming home Tuesday and will be due Wednesday (pages 25 and 26)
• Homework is coming home next Friday and will be due the following Monday (pages 27 and 28).
• If your student is struggling to complete the challenge part of the homework you may skip it! I do not want to cause meltdowns!

Science: We have been observing different objects and discussing their purpose. We have also been wondering about their designs. How and why was it made. We will be working on this engineering unit for a few weeks. This has been a fun and insightful unit so far!

Conferences: sign up for conferences