Here is quick glance of what we will be learning about this week.
| Spelling | Ending digraphs – th, ch, sh, tch. Words are: path, hitch, patch, wish, teeth, tooth, dash, wash, never, long |
| Writing | Informational paragraph writing. Students will write a topic sentence, gather 3 facts from an article, and write a closing sentence. |
| Reading | Informational text. Students are looking for the main idea of a multi-paragraph text by re-reading the first and last sentence of each paragraph after reading the text completely. |
| Science | Students are exploring how water changes the Earth (erosion) and about different bodies of water. |
| Social Studies | We are continuing our geography unit by creating a map and a a map key of our classroom and then creating an island with different types of land forms and drawing a map of our island. |
| Math | We are comparing numbers based on place value and +/- 1, +/- 10, +/- 100 of a number using place value strategies. |
- Thank you for working on letter formation. Our writing is starting to improve. Please keep practicing.
- We have been working on basic facts through 20 with our Math Sprints. Students should be using strategies such as Near 10, doubles, doubles +/- 1, +1, +0 to help them solve these problems. Students should be getting about 22 problems done in a minute. When doing Sprints, students should be completing them in order down the page. They should NOT jump around. The Sprints are designed so that each problem builds upon the previous problem or group of problems. This is to encourage looking for patterns and relationships between numbers and problems.
- Please contact me at fowlerj@dearbornschools.org if you have any questions.