Please remember to send 100 snack pieces tomorrow for our 100 day snack mix! We will use this mix to do some sorting, estimating and comparing as we eat it!
Important Dates and Reminders:
February 13: 100th day of school
February 14: Red, white and pink day and classroom Valentine exchange
February 23: 1/2 day 11:30 dismissal
February 24: NO SCHOOL
February 27: Melodies and Masterpieces Family Night (info coming soon)
Here is a peek at our week:
Reading: Reading non-fiction books each day is helping us to become experts on many things! This week a major focus on of our reading workshop will be on retelling our the information learned in our books by using the words main topic and key details. We will work to give partners and group members lessons on our book topics by using these important words and also showing evidence of the words and pictures that taught us the information. This is an important shift for us as we are now working on not just learning to read, but reading to learn. At home after your child finishes a book, you may prompt them to retell what they book was teaching and ask them to show the exact place they learned that info.
Writing: The boys and girls are ROCKING this new All About unit so far! This week we will focus on elaboration: ways to add more to our writing. We will have a writing challenge where we will push ourselves to work hard to finish one book a day and then go back and revise it. We will be using text features like diagrams, bold words and definitions, comparisons and examples like we have seen authors try in the books we have read. We will also use a partner who will ask questions about our book and push us to find a way to add the answer to our writing.
Math: After having a great meeting with our math developer, Ryan, we have decided to extend Unit 3 for one more week and to really work to solidify the concepts we have been addressing before we take our test on Friday. We will be reviewing partners of numbers, teen numbers and using 5 groups. The students will also have a chance to engage in activities we have already done to really apply their knowledge and deepen their understanding.
Science: Our wood and paper unit is up and running and the boys and girls couldn't be more enthusiastic about it! They are loving the hands on experiments we have been doing and we have also been using the scientific method to question, hypothesize, experiment and share what we discovered. Check out these photos of scientists hard at work on Friday!
This week we will explore changing the shape of wood by sanding it and will use sawdust and wood shavings to create our own particle board and plywood.
Word Work: We have really been focusing on short vowel word families (an, en, ig, un, ug...) to help us read and write words. At home you can support this work by asking your child to spell simple three letter words and urging them to listen closely for the vowel sound in the middle. Or have your child write words that rhyme with a word and notice how they all look and sound the same.
Our new sight words this week will be: jump, funny, go, find, not.
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