Week 7

 Dear Parents,

             This week in math we continued working on two digit addition with and without regrouping. I am so proud of these kiddos and of you! Thank you for your support at home. Almost all the students understand the concept behind regrouping and can do it. There are about two students who could use your support at home. I will be pulling them during win time to give extra support as well. You can see if your child needs help by seeing the math pages that go home this week. If they had to make corrections then they could use some help. 

             In writing we began a personal narrative writing about a day of school. We all brainstormed our day on a circle map, and made a writing plan with an opening sentence, a beginning-middle-  end, and a closing sentence. We used our plan to write our rough draft.

           In reading this week we watched a Brainpop Jr. about fall and listened to the story Leaf Thief. Then we wrote about Fall in a graphic organizer. We read The Dogs of Bedlam Farm,Learned what a central idea of a story is and found the central idea of this story. We listened to the video “ Get Involved: Be Awesome” and found details to support the central idea. On Friday we watched a Brainpop Jr. on Johnny Appleseed, discussed his good citizen traits, and colored a map to show his path and took a reading check point over a Scholastic News article.

            In science we did a talk-read-talk-write activity  about combining matter. On Tuesday we had the Wonder Wagon STEM program visit our school and challenge our children to be engineers as they built strong, sturdy, tall buildings. Fun and learning was had by all. A big thank you to Simone Jordan for volunteering to help us during construction. We read a powerpoint about combining matter and read a slideshow about choosing materials to build a sturdy bridge. Then the groups began planning their bridge- how to use the materials to build their bridge.