Week 24

 Dear Parents,

 

        This week in math our main focus has been ways to represent and solve word problems. We represented word problems with number sentences, part/part/whole boxes, strip diagrams and number lines. We then solved many of these problems.

         In language this week we learned about articles as special adjectives that tell how many or which one, when coming before a noun. We played a game deciding if we use a or an in front of a list of nouns. We finished publishing our poems and published our poetry books to share with our class. We also finished our MOY writing prompt to show our growth in organizing our writing and using details.

          In reading we focused on nonfiction features and read a Scholastic News article called “Garden Gobblers” which told us why groundhogs eat so much in our gardens. We also had a special snack that looked like a groundhog coming out of its hole. We  learned about making inferences and highlighted important concepts to help us guess the riddle. We did a cut and paste activity to match a situation and an inference we could make about that situation. In Social studies we learned the cardinal and intermediate directions and made a compass rose.

            In science we continued learning about the sum and moon. We learned their patterns in the sky. We read about those patterns and wrote about what we learned. We continued adding to our moon calendar each day. We took our assessment on Friday.