November Newsletter Week of 11/18/19

Spelling List

screen, stripe, struck, truck, train, before, after, our, ate, under, place value, state

Math Module 3

lesson 9, 10, 11, 12, 13

On Wednesday, November 20, 2019 we will have Mid-Module test

Social Studies test unit 2 On Monday, November 25, 2019.

Study guide will go home on Friday, November 22, 2019.

Vocabulary Cards.

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November Newsletter

Spelling List week of 11/11/2019

each- which- match- dish- with- eat-who- new- must-black

Math

Module 3

Topics Lesson 6

Write base ten numbers in expanded form

lesson 7 write, read, and relate base ten numbers in all forms.

lesson 8 count the total value of $1, $10, $100 bills up to $1000

Lesson 9 Count from $10, $1,000 on the place value chart and the empty number line.

Lesson 10 Explore $1,000. How many $10 bills can we change for thousand dollar bill?

Mid- Module Assessment

Social Studies-Unit 2 Where is My Community and What is it Like There

Lesson vocabulary

Natural characteristics – human characteristics- transportation- consequences- negative consequences- positive consequences

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The week of November 4 Newsletter

Spelling list

chill – sheep-think-while-chase-saw-eat-who-new-must

Social studies

We will be working on Unit 2

Where is my Community and What is it Like There?

Vocabulary for this week as Following:

Map – Map key- symbol- direction words- location

Math

We will be working on Module 3

A. Forming Base Ten Units of Ten, a Hundred, and a Thousand

Lesson 1: Bundle and count ones, tens, and hundreds to 1,000

B- Understanding Place Value Units of One, ten, and a Hundred

Lesson 2 count up and down between 100 and 220 using ones and tens

Lesson 3 : count up and down between 90 and 1,000 using ones, tens, and hundreds.

Lesson 4: count up to 1000 on the place value chart

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September/October Newsletter

Attached is our classroom Newsletter. Please take a look at what we’re learning!

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April Newsletter

Dear Parents,

During the month of April we will be working on the following tasks. We might have some changes throughout the month.

Spelling Lists:

4/15/19   Second Grade

near, fear, deer, steer, where, there, gear, peer, believe, nature, life, artifact

Third Grade

hire, retire, fire, tire, earth, early, learn, earn, heard, fear, government

 

4/22/19   Second Grade

didn’t, can’t , they’ve, we’ve, she’ll, he’s, wouldn’t, couldn’t plant, history, past

Third Grade

there, where, earlier, flier, carrier, copier, crier, drier, constitution, court, judge, voting

 

 

 

Math

Second Grade

Module 5

Continue working on strategies for decomposing tens and hundreds within 1,000.

Week of 4/8/19

lesson 15, 16, 17, 18, 

Quiz

Week of 4/15/19

Lessons 19, 20

Study Guide Module 5

 

Math

Third Grade

Week of 4/8/19

Start Module # 5

Fractions as Numbers on the number line

  1. partitioning a whole into equal parts
  2. Unit fractions and their relation to the whole
  3. comparing unit fractions and specifying the whole

 

 

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March Newsletter 2nd /3rd Grades

Dear parents,

During March we are going to work on the following spelling lists:

2nd Grade spelling week of 3/4/19

alone, along, again , agree, above, compose, rocks, decompose, multiply, product

3rd grade

there, where, bored, plane, flour, pollination, area, geometry

2nd grade

Week of 3/11/19

knee, write, lamb, doubt, traits, describe, digits, opinion

3rd grade

care, fare, share, hair, scarcity, specialized, paragraph, illustration

2nd grade

week of 3/18/19

cage, pledge, bridge, large, infront, behind, next, below

3rd grade

hire, earth, learn, fear, reasons, conclusion, purpose, width, habitat

 

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Spelling List 2nd /3rd grades

 

week of 2/11/19

2nd grade

pause, cause, draw, jaw, crawl, bawl, every, life, would, surface, process, services, economy

3rd grade

Scroll, throw, shrank, spring, sprain, scream, thread, life, plants, extinct, cycle

 

 

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January Newsletter Second and Third Grades

Dear parents,   

During the Month of January we will be studying these topics and we might have some changes throughout the month.

Newsletter

 

Language Arts

2nd Grade

 

Spelling week of 1/7/19

Churn, clerk, third, first, burst, some, ask, were, ask, were, represent, solve, product, sum

 

 

Week of 1/14/19

 

Shook, could, should, cook, book, just, from, any, put, take, citizen, flag, rules

 

 

Week of 1/22/19

Clue, root, boot, canoe, fruit, suit, glue, live, would, very

Your, values

 

 

Week of 1/28/19

Pause, cause, draw, jaw, launch, crawl, every, live,

would

 

Surface, process

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Social Studies Week of 1/4/16

Unit 3 How do citizens live together?

Vocabulary review will be sent home.

1. Local government (complete the local Government Tree activity)

2. Core democratic values/watch a video Citizen role

4- Civic Responsibilities

5- Pledge of Allegiance

 

Math 2nd Grade

 

Module 4

Lesson 5

Solve one-and two- step word problems within 100 using strategies based on place value.

 

Lesson 6

Use manipulatives to represent the composition of 10 ones as 1 ten with two –digit addends.

 

Lesson 7

Relate addition using manipulatives to a written vertical method.

 

Lesson 8

Use math drawing to represent the composition

 

Lesson 9-10

Use math drawings to represent the composition when adding digit to a three-digit addend

 

Lesson 11-12

Relate manipulatives representations to a written method.

 

 

 

Lesson 13-

 

Lesson 14-15

Represent subtraction with and without the decomposition when there is a three –digit minuend.

 

Lesson 16

Solve one-and two step word problems within 100 using strategies based on place value.

 

Mid-Module Assessment

 

 

 

 

   
Science

Science

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you.

Mrs.Hachem

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Language Arts 3rd grade

Spelling

 

Week of 1/7/2019

Joint, coin, spoil, point, destroy, royal

Migrate, weathering, product, factor, estimate, state

 

Week of 1/14/2019

 

Bring, grow, grace, brain, gray, brake,

Grain, evidence, behavior, common

Ecosystem, adaptation, growth

 

Week of 1/22/2019

 

Drum, price, track, frame, trim, dream, difference, value, genre, predict, canal, industry

 

 

Week of 1/28/19

Scroll, throw, shrank, spring, sprain, scream, thread, throat

Endangered, extinct, fossils, survive

Math 3rd grade

 

Module 3

 

Lesson 9 Model the associative property as a strategy to multiply.

 

Lesson 10-12

 Use the distributive property as a strategy to multiply and divide.

 

Lesson 11

Interpret the unknown in multiplication and division to model and solve problems.

 

lesson 13-14

Identify and use arithmetic patterns to multiply.

 

Lesson 15

Interpret the unknown in multiplication to model and solve problems.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Social Studies 3rd Grade

 

Unit 4 : The Growth of Michigan

How have Michigan’s resources impacted the economy and growth of the state?

 

Lesson 1:

Vocabulary

Geography, economics activities, 

Fertile soil, agriculture, modifying the environment

Lesson 1 quiz

Lesson 2

Vocabulary: lumbering, specialization, lesson 2 quiz

 

Lesson 3

Vocabulary: mining, minerals,

Copper, iron ore, canal, lock

Reading Copper Mining

And Iron Mining

Quiz 3

 

Lesson 4

Vocabulary: raw materials, manufacturing, capital resources

Human resources

 

Lesson 5

Car factories

Entrepreneur, assembly line

 

Resources and the Automobile industry in Michigan

 

Lesson 6

Vocabulary: movement, culture

Pull factors, diversity, core democratic values

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Lesson 16-17

 Explain arithmetic pattern using units 0and 1

Identify pattern in multiplication and division using the multiplication table.

 

Lesson 18

Solve two –step word problems involving all four operations and assess the reasonableness of solutions.

 

Science 3rd grade

 

Unit 3

Ecosystem, adaptation and biodiversity

 

Mystery 1

Where can find whales in a desert?

 

Mystery 2

How do we know what dinosaurs look like?

 

Mystery 3

Can you out run a dinosaur?

 

Mystery 4

What kind of animals might be there in the future? 

 

 

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November and December Newsletter

November Newsletter

Dear parents,

The following is the newsletter for the month of November and we might have some changes throughout the month.

Language Arts:

Spelling: Weekly homework

Monday: Write each word 3 times

Tuesday: Write ten sentences using the spelling list.

Wednesday: Write a short story using the spelling list.

Friday: Spelling test

 

Spelling :2nd Grade

10/29/18

Week 10  grow- low-toe-goes-soap-like-will- went- are- came

 

11/5/18

Week 11  meat-queen-beet-baby-mean-into-want-too-pretty-four

 

11/12/18

Week 12 Chill- sheep- think- while- chase- saw- eat- who-new- must

 

11/19/18

Week 13 each- which- match- dish- with- eat- who-new- must-black

 

11/26

Week 14 screen-stripe-struck-truck-train-before-after-our-ate-under

 

 

 

 

Spelling 3rd Grade

10/29/18

Week 8    brother- whisper- father- teacher- mother-grandfather-predict-details-product-factors-immigrant

 

 

11/5/18

Week 9 button- bottle-better-letter-rabbit-division- commutative- distributive- quotient- volume

 

11/12/18

Week 10  music- behind-olive-habit-conflict-opinion-local-ecosystem-cycle

 

11/19/18

Week 11 found- cloud- pound-sound-loud-paragraph- next- content- contain-polygon

 

11/26/18

Week 12 snow- blow- glow- crow- know- adapt- system-mammal reptile- prey

 

 

 

 

 

Math 2nd grade

10/29/18

Topic A

Lesson 1

Standards

2.NBT.1

Forming Base Ten Units of Ten, a Hundred, and a Thousand

Topic B

Lessons 2 and 3

Standards

2.NBT.2

2.NBT.2

Understanding Place Value Units of One, Ten, and Hundred.

 

Topic C

Lesson 4 and 5

Standards

2.NBT.3

2.NBT.1

2.NBT.2

Three-Digit Numbers in Unit, Standard, Expanded, and Word Forms.

 

11/5/18

Lessons 6 and 7

Standards

2.NBT.3

2.NBT.1

2.NBT.2

Three-Digit Numbers in Unit, Standard, Expanded, and Word Forms.

 

Topic D

Lessons 8, 9, 10 and Mid-Module Assessment

Standards

2.NBT.1

2.NBT.3

2.NBT.8

Modeling Base Ten Numbers Within 1,000 with Money

 

11/12/18

Topic E

Lessons 11, 12, and 13

Standards

2.NBT.1

2.NBT.3

2.NBT.8

Modeling Numbers within 1,000 with Place Value Disks.

 

11/19/18

Topic E

 

Lessons 14 and 15

Standards

2.NBT.1

2.NBT.3

2.NBT.8

Modeling Numbers within 1,000 with Place Value Disks.

 

11/26/18

 Topic F

Lessons 16, 17, and 18

Standards

2.NBT.4

Comparing Two Three-Digit Numbers

 

 

Math 3rd grade

10/29/18

 

Topic A

Lessons 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5

Standards

3.NBT.2

3.MD.1

Time Measurement and Problem Solving.

 

11/5/18

 

Topic B

Lessons 6, 7, 8, and 9

Standards

3.NBT.2

3.MD.2

Measuring Weight and Liquid Volume in Metric Units.

 

 

11/12/18

Lessons 10, 11, and Mid-Module Assessment

Standards

3.NBT.2

3.MD.2

Measuring Weight and Liquid Volume in Metric Units.

 

11/19/18

 

Topic C

 

Lessons 12, 13, and 14

Standards

3.NBT.1

3.MD.2

3.MD.2

Rounding to the Nearest Ten and Hundred

 

11/26

Topic D

 

Lessons 15, 16, and 17

Standards

3.NBT.1

3.NBT.1

3.MD.2

3.MD.2

Two-and Three-Digit Measurement Addition Using the Standard Algorithm

 

Social Studies 2nd grade

Unit: 2 Where is my community & what is it like?

Week of 11/5/18

·                      Lesson one: Vocabulary

Map – map key- symbol-direction words

·                      Classwork /Activities

Home work- Vocabulary cards will go home for review

Week of 11/12/18

Lesson 2

·         Location natural and human characteristics

Classwork /activities/quiz

Continue with vocabulary cards and reading maps

Lesson 3

·                      Vocabulary: Landforms- bodies of water- mountains-hills, Valley-ocean- Lake- rivers

·                      Classwork /activities

Week of 11/19/18

Lesson 4

·       Vocabulary: Negative and positive consequences

·       Classwork/ activities

 

Unit Review/ Unit Test

 

 

 

Social Studies 3nd grade

Unit 3: The Early History of Michigan

Week of 11/5/18

·       Lesson 1&2:  History is the study of past.

 

·       Vocabulary: Primary sources, secondary sources, decade, archaeologist, alliance, adapting to the natural environment, and modifying the environment.

 

·       Classwork /Activities

Home work- Vocabulary cards will go home for review

Week of 11/12/18

Lesson 3: Stories were an important part of the cultures of Michigan Indians.

·       Vocabulary: legend

·       Classwork /Activities

Week of 11/19/18

·       Lesson 4: About 500 years ago explorers from the continent of Europe were looking for trade routes to china.

·                      Vocabulary: continent, explorer, scarcity.

·                      Classwork /Activities

Week of 11/26/18

·       Lesson 5: Competition for the fur trade led to a war between France and Britain.

·                       Vocabulary: fort,

·                      Classwork /Activities

 

 

Week of 12/3/18

   Lesson 6: Pioneers coming to Michigan in the early 1800s had many challenges to overcome.

·                      Vocabulary: pioneer, population, survey, and census.

·                      Classwork /Activities

 

Unit Review/ Unit Test

 

 

 

 

 

 

Science 2nd grade

 

Unit: Work of Water

 

Week of 11/05/18

Mystery 1: Mapping, Earth’s Surface, and Landforms

If you floated down a river, where would you end up?

1-    Exploration

2-    Activity: Paper Mountain

Week of 11/12/18

Mystery 2: Erosion, Earth’s Surface, and Landforms.

Why is there sand at the beach?

1-    Exploration:

2-    Activity: Rocking the River

Week of 11/19/18

Mystery 3: Mapping, Earth’s Surface, and Landforms

What’s strong enough to make a canyon?

1-    Exploration

2-    Activity: Cornmeal Canyons

Week of 11/26/18

Mystery 4: Erosion and Engineering

How can you stop a landslide?

1-    Exploration:

2-    Activity: Erosion Engineering

 

 

Science 3rd grade

 

Unit: Weather and Climate

 

Week of 11/05/18

Mystery 1: Water Cycle, Phases of Matter

Where do clouds come from?

1-    Exploration

2-    Activity: Gas Trap

Week of 11/12/18

Mystery 2: Local Weather Patterns, Weather Prediction

How can we predict when it’s going to storm?

1-    Exploration

2-    Activity: Storm Spotter’s Guide

Week of 11/19/18

Mystery 3: Climate, Geography, and Global Weather Patterns

Why are some places always hot?

1-    Exploration

2-    Activity: Climate Decoder

Week of 11/26/18

Mystery 4: Natural Hazard and Engineering

How can you keep a house from blowing away in a windstorm?

1-    Exploration

2-    Activity: Design a Windproof House

 

   

 

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March Newsletter

Dear parents,

For the Month of March and April we will be studying these topics and we might have some changes throughout the month.

Newsletter

Language Arts/Spelling Lists

Week of 3/12/18

 

Oil – toy- royal- broil- joy- soil

About- six –never- seven

 

Week of 3/19/18

 

Alone- again- agree- above-along-ago

Away- today- myself- keep

 

Week of 3/26/18

 

Knee- know- sign- wrist- write- knob-

Only- hold- warn- full

 

 

 

 

 

 

Math

 

Start unit 7

1. pattern counting

2. adding three or more 1 digit and multi digit numbers

3. practice repeated doubling and halving

4. exploring weights in pounds

5. readiness for division and area

6. measure length to the nearest inch and centimeter

7. middle value (median)

8. line plot, bar graph  for  a set of data

   

Social Studies

 

Social Studies

Unit 4 How do people work in a community?

Lessons:

 

 

·         Scarcity and choices

·         Opportunity cost

·         Using natural to produce goods

·         And services

Study guide goes home

Study guide review

Unit 4 test

 

Vocabulary Cards will go home every day for review.

 

Science-

Earth  Science

Water experiment- two methods

Settling- Filtering

 

 

 

 

 

Science scientific process

Life  Science

 

1.    Identify the need of plants.

2.    The life cycle of familiar flowering plants including the following stages : seed, plant, and describe fruit

3.    Identify characteristics of plants (leaf shape, flower type, color).

Thank you,

Mrs. Hachem

 

 

 

 

 

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