Week 14

 Dear Parents,

           It’s hard to believe we just finished our 14^th week of school! I am so proud of the growth your children have made. Routines and expectations are set and I am seeing students rise to meet the challenges! This week in math we continued solving word problems that were addition and subtraction with and without regrouping. We then started solving word problems that had three numbers, called two step problems. The children take  two of the three numbers to solve a first problem, then take that answer to solve a problem with the third number. It is quite challenging and we will have lots of practice with this skill.

          In Reading/ Social Studies we read and discussed the Scholastic News article, “Thank You Veteran”. We took a comprehension check. We are practicing our districts reading tests. We have done the I do, where I read and model as I answer questions about the text. We then did the we do texts where we interacted with the text and read the story and answered questions together. This week I read the story and the questions, but the children had to answer the questions on their own. We are building up to students reading the text by them selves and answering the questions. We then learned about American Symbols and choose 4 to research.

            In wring we are still finishing up our imaginative stories to final copy. We also worked on a special Thanksgiving project that we will take home next week. We have been working our way through our handwriting book and soon will be starting cursive writing.

           In science we reviewed our force and motion unit and took our assessment. We set up our next unit on weather, brainstormed what we know about weather and wrote about our favorite weather. We did an engage slideshow and learned about a meteorologist. We will be learning all about the kinds of weather, how to use weather tools and even practice being meteorologists! 

             The children did a fabulous job during the Veteran’s Day assembly! The entire school worked together under the leadership of Mr. Davis to honor our Veterans with their songs and speeches. There were lots of moist eyes as our Veterans listened. 

 

Have a wonderful weekend- there may be some rain