Week 19

 Dear Parents,

          This week in math we learned three ways to find out if a number is odd or it is even. We practiced on many numbers and lined them up with a pair or put them in teams. We learned that a number is even if everyone has a partner or the teams have the same number of players. We learned that a number is odd if there is one left over who does not have a partner or if one team has one more player than the other team. We also learned that no matter how large the number is, if you look at the ones number and see if it is 0,2,4,6,or 8, then it will be even. If you don’t say that digit when you count by 2s, then it is odd. We also learned how to count our base ten numbers to 999.We built numbers by rolling a die for each digit of a 3 digit number.

          In writing we have been writing our notes and friendly letters. Most are edited and in final copy form and they went home Thursday to be delivered. Ummmmm- they may need some help with delivery as a few wrote to Santa or their elf on a shelf.

           In reading /social studies we read a Scholastic News article about the history of gingerbread and took a comprehension check. We even tasted a gingerbread cookie! We continued researching our American Symbols and turned in our page for a grade.

           In science we read an article, did a talk, read, talk, write and took our assessment over weather.

           A BIG  Thank you to my room moms Lori Hayward and Angela Giancola for planning an amazing  Winter party for our class! The children were talking about how much fun they had the rest of the day. Several children said it was the BEST winter party ever!

Week 18

 Dear Parents,

                This week in math we finished up our unit on multiplication as addition and division as repeated subtraction. We had many opportunities to build array and even made an Array City. We took our assessment on Friday.

                 In writing this week we learned how to write notes and began writing a Friendly Letter. The children will get to deliver their notes and letters upon completion. You may need to help your child deliver their messages and may have to get creative as some of them wrote to Santa!

                 In reading we learned what the word culture means and discussed that there are many different cultures in our school. We then took two days to research American symbols. We chose our four favorite and picked an important fact we learned. We read about the history of gingerbread and took a comprehension check. We also got to taste a gingerbread cookie!

                 In science we continued learning about weather as we learned about severe weather through many activities, slide shows and videos. We will continue learning about weather and take our assessment next week.

 

• Please, if you have not sent in the $5 for the winter party, send it in as soon as possible. The room moms spend their own money to make a wonderful party and this money goes to help cover that cost.
• Thank you for all of you who registered for BOOSTERTHON. We need 7 more families to sign up. There is no cost to signing up.If you can support our school we appreciate a donation of any amount. This is our school’s main fundraiser, plus the children love the run!

Week 17

 Dear Parents,

                This week in math we finished up our unit on multiplication as addition and division as repeated subtraction. We had many opportunities to build array and even made an Array City. We took our assessment on Friday.

                 In writing this week we learned how to write notes and began writing a Friendly Letter. The children will get to deliver their notes and letters upon completion. You may need to help your child deliver their messages and may have to get creative as some of them wrote to Santa!

                 In reading we learned what the word culture means and discussed that there are many different cultures in our school. We then took two days to research American symbols. We chose our four favorite and picked an important fact we learned. We read about the history of gingerbread and took a comprehension check. We also got to taste a gingerbread cookie!

                 In science we continued learning about weather as we learned about severe weather through many activities, slide shows and videos. We will continue learning about weather and take our assessment next week.

 

• Please, if you have not sent in the $5 for the winter party, send it in as soon as possible. The room moms spend their own money to make a wonderful party and this money goes to help cover that cost.
• Thank you for all of you who registered for BOOSTERTHON. We need 7 more families to sign up. There is no cost to signing up.If you can support our school we appreciate a donation of any amount. This is our school’s main fundraiser, plus the children love the run!

Week 16

Week 15

 Dear Parents, 

          This Week in Math we finished up our unit on measurement in inches, feet, yards, centimeters and meters. We learned time to the minute and reviewed how to find area in square units. We took our assessment on Friday.

           In writing we finished up our special holiday gift for you, worked on writing projects in process and wrote a winter acrostic. This one they wrote totally on their own with no brainstorming. My writers are growing and improving every day!

           In social studies/reading we had a Scholastic News article and several Thanksgiving stories entitled “Are You Thankful for Pumpkin Pie?”, Thanksgiving at the Tappletons, Turkey Trouble, A Turkey for Thanksgiving and Arthur’s Thanksgiving. We had a comp check over one of the stories as well as the scholastic News Article.

           In Science we began our weather unit by Brainstorming kinds of weather and looking at weather tools meteorologists use to tell us about the weather. We had a hands on experience for reading a thermometer that was placed in three different cups of water. We used hot tap water, ice water and room temperature water. We experienced a talk/read/talk/write activity as well. We  rained into a rain gauge and practiced reading how much precipitation had fallen.

Week 14

 Dear Parents,

                 This week in math we have been estimating and measuring objects in our room with centimeters and meters. We talk about which unit of measurement would be best to use as well as which unit would have more or fewer units of measurement. They have been excited as they estimate and match the true measurement.

                  In writing this week we have finished up acrostic poems. One acrostic was to celebrate and honor veterans. The children did a wonderful job with their writing and at the Veterans Day Program. I made copies of their poems to send home with veterans. We also worked on a special Thanksgiving gift for you- SHHHHH, it’s a secret!

                  In Reading/Social Studies We read the story Going Places and took a comprehension test. We combined this with writing and learned how to analyze a prompt and wrote to a prompt about this story. We read a Scholastic News Article called Fly High For Veterans Day and took a reading checkpoint over it. We learned the differences between folktales and fairytales. We listened to a few of these types of stories.

                    In science we did a talk/read/talk/write activity and highlighted the important information. We discussed activities we have done that are pushes, pulls or both.We created an accordion book with the information we learned. We took our assessment on Friday.

Week 13

 Dear Parents,

              This week in math we learned about area using square units. We made area robots and added the different We then used ordinary units of measurement like a paperclip to estimate and measure objects. We then went on to customary units of measurement like inches, feet and yards. We are having so much fun measuring around our classroom.

                In writing this week we continued in the writing process for both our narrative stories and our imaginary stories. We learned about Veteran’s Day and wrote a VETERAN acrostic poem. They were very well written. I made copies to hand out to our visiting veterans on Veteran’s Day.

                 In Reading /Social Studies we read the nonfiction story Who Are Government Leaders. We created a flip book where we learned about our local, state and federal governments. We now know who the leaders are in our city, state and country.

                  In science we had a push and pull field day as we experienced push and pull activities out on our playground. We did a talk, read, talk write activity about these forces.