Week 6

 Dear Parents,

                This week in reading and social studies, we read passages about the flag. We highlighted important information and used that to answer questions. We also completed sentences that tells how we are to treat our flag. We learned about why we celebrate Constitution Day. We read about it and filled out a page together of important facts. We read and discussed The Kindness Challenge, a Scholastic News Article. We answered comprehension questions, and questions about a calendar.

               In math this week we focused on reading math story problems, filling out a strip diagram to match the story, then writing a number sentence to solve. We took a quiz on Friday over this skill.

              In writing we took our beginning of year writing check to be scored on a rubric. We will take one at the middle of year and then, the end of the year to show growth. They wrote to a prompt about someone who made them feel special. We began revising and editing our writing and will take it to final copy and publish it.

                In science we sorted objects by their properties, and then be4gan learning there are more properties than size, shape, mass, color and texture. We learned that we can use our senses to find out if an object is hot or cold, flexible or not flexible and much more. We then talked about the states of matter as we turned chocolate from a solid to a liquid in a microwave. We then used the liquid chocolate to draw with. We left it over night and it turned back into a solid. Today we will read an article about properties of matter and then fill in a cloze procedure paper.

                We had a wonderful time at Swim class this week! We learned so much that will keep us safe around water! Charlotte’s mom was one of our swim coaches!!!! That made it even more special.

                Congratulations to Vincent for being our first Leader of the week. He presented his poster and the class all told him why they think he is a leader! Vincent’s swim coach also was impressed with him and came to me to tell how much he grew over the two days.

                Thank you for all the kindness you showed me on my birthday. I was spoiled all day long by present and past students!

Week 5

 Dear Parents, 

          This week in reading we Listened to the story Picture Day Perfection. We created mental images as we read and discussed the story. We learned that this story was realistic fiction. Everything in the story could have happened, but it was a made up story. We then took a comprehension check about it. We listened to the story It’s Only Stanley. We stopped just as there was an explosion. The children drew a picture about what they thought happened because of what they had heard thus far. We continued Learning about how to be a good citizen at school, home, and in our community. I led them on a guided direction page and assessed them at how well they followed directions. On Friday we learned about Labor Day and why we celebrate this holiday.

           In Math we had lots of fun as we asked questions, created our own, and created addition and subtraction stories about bar graphs and pictographs. We are really good at organizing our data. We also began fluency flight on iready which will help us with memorizing our addition and subtraction facts.

            In writing we learned how to be fearless spellers and use charts such as an alphabet chart, consonant cluster chart, and a word wall chart to help us spell.

            In science we continued to learn about how scientists stay safe, the tools scientists use and what an engineer does and why he/she does it. Next Week Wonder Wagon will be coming. If you are signed up in Volly and would like to come help during our time, here is the link to sign up for 9:30-10:40 on Sept 10th:  Voly Link   

 

• One student lost his or her Leader in Me Poster- I have it. I just need to know who to give it back to.

 

Have a wonderful, relaxing three day weekend with your family!