Week 5

Dear Parents,

                 This week in Math we finished up our beginning of the year learning on coins and their values. We continue practicing counting coins all year with our Money Mondays. Please  continue to practice counting coins at home to support your child in this skill. We started talking about comparing numbers on a number line. We found missing numbers on a number line and placed numbers on an open number line. We also compared two and three digit numbers as greater than, less than or equal to each other.

                 In writing we learned about a sound wall and put that page in our reading folder to help us decode words. We reviewed our dictionary skills and learned about synonyms and antonyms. We ended our week learning about Patriots Day, drafting and publishing an acrostic poem about PEACE.

                In reading/social studies, we read the story The Great Fuzz Frenzy and took a comprehension check. We read two passages as a class, then answered comprehension questions as I modeled my thinking and strategies for finding or writing the best answer. We ended the week by learning about Texas Symbols and creating a book.

               In science we began our unit on changing and combining matter. We reviewed our vocabulary, planned an investigation, created a chart to record our observations and began changing matter as a class. Next week we will explore changing matter on our own.