Week 7

 Dear Parents,

        In Math this week we took our Topic 1 Assessment. Your children did a great job! On Tuesday we began adding two digit numbers by adding the tens and ones mentally. It really helped to put T for tens and O for ones over the digits we were adding. At first the ones were added to equal one digit numbers. Later in the week we were adding two digit numbers with regrouping of our ones. We used ten frame boxes as well as unifix cubes to see what actually happens when we regroup. In the ten frames we would build our two numbers and move our counters to make a ten. It is really easy to add ten to a number, just ask your child. We also worked some problems vertically. We did a few at a time with me running to check to make sure every child could get the right answer independently. They did a great job! I was so proud of all of their effort.

          In writing we are working on two pieces. We are finishing up our books using a real author as a mentor and we began writing a narrative about recess. We will take the narrative through the writing process.

          In Reading we connected to kindness week with our stories. First we read Being a Good Citizen. We created a class circle map of what makes us a good citizen. Then Lilly became our first Leader of the week. She shared her poster, then we discussed what makes Lilly a good citizen. I am looking for next week’s leader, but four children still need to turn in their posters. We watched a video called “ Get Involved” and talked about how we can get involved in our school and community. We read a scholastic News article called “We Are Good Citizens” and discussed the right choices children could make using 4 different scenarios. We Read 10 Black Dots and The Dot on International Dot Day. We then created pictures using 10 Dots. It was wonderful to watch a video of Peter H. Reynolds drawing and painting a picture with dots. Last, we watched a video “All About Elephants” and worked on a Building Community page as a class. 

 

         In Science we had many chances to watch matter change. We had a challenge to choose materials to keep an ice cube from melting. We timed how long it took each cube to melt. We were surprised that an ice cube surrounded by cloth in a plastic cup beat the thermal cup. We also put a gobstopper in a cup of water and timed four different observations. Both the water and the gobstopper looked different every time. We watched videos and wrote down information we learned on a graphic organizer. We finished the week with a talk read, talk write activity.

            

 

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* Look in Friday folders for the district reading assessment letter, istation and individual pictures