I hope everyone enjoyed the beautiful weekend!

This week’s Spelling words focus on the sound of i, long and short. did, fix, trick, fine, hike. The Dolch words: find, like, live, five, little

The students are settling in very well to our Daily 5 routine. We have been doing Read to Self, Work on Writing, Word Work, Read to Someone and will begin Listen to Reading this week. I am still assessing some students with their reading levels and will begin meeting this week with everyone in their strategy groups.

Our reading strategy this week is Summarizing a Plot for a realistic fiction story. We’ll also be reading the illustrations to help us understand the story better, and writing the Beginning–Middle–End summary together.

We’ll continue this week with writing a personal narrative this week.

Math will begin our unit of addition and subtraction strategies that does not focus on using our fingers 😉 though I know this is very common at this age and so I try to diminish the use of fingers as the year goes on.

Social Studies will continue with our study of communities and the similarities and differences between rural/small town–suburb–urban/big cities

We’ll continuing our study of the properties of Matter in Science by making hats that can protect us from the sun using everyday objects such as a paper bag, paper plate, string, and aluminum foil. It’s always fun to see what each student creates!

Enjoy the week 🙂