Week 17

Dear Parents,

           The children were eager to get back to learning! We continued three digit subtraction with and without regrouping. We used our part/part/whole strategy to help us figure out word problems. We even solved two step word problems and took our assessment on Friday. 

           In language we wrote a short, nonfiction narrative piece telling about a New Years resolution, why we chose that resolution and how we plan to accomplish it. We learned what pronouns are and that their order in a sentence matters. Then we wrote an imaginative piece where we used pronouns as we pretended that our family lived in a snow globe.

          In reading we read the story Penguin Chick , a nonfiction story and focused on identifying the main ideas and supporting details. We also practiced matching up details to their main idea. Our Comprehension check for this story was on Thursday. We read a Scholastic News Article and completed a comprehension check.

          In science we finished up our unit on rocks, after describing rocks, watching information videos, reading about rocks, writing about rocks and finally taking our assessment on Friday.

          In social studies we began a unit about U.S. Landmarks. We learned what landmarks and memorials are, watched videos about many of them, then were set loose to research more about landmarks of interest to your child. Each child is to pick 5 landmarks and create a brochure telling a few facts they researched about each. Books, the computer and print outs from the internet are being used in this project. This project will continue into next week.

         We are welcoming a new student, Jamahal to our classroom this week. We now have an even twenty students. We are all looking forward to getting to know him better in the upcoming weeks.

          Congratulations to our new Leader of the Week, Kais. We celebrated his qualities that make him a leader and a good example for other students in our room.

I am also requesting that all children bring in 4 more large glue sticks, two large pink erasers, a new box of 24 crayons and more number 2 pencils as our supply is getting low. Thank you for your help.