Tuesday January 29, 2019

Hello Families,

With the uncertainty of the weather this week, plans will be adjusted as needed with regard to lessons. As always, activities that don’t get done on one day, get moved to the next. Our room is a bit chilly, so please make sure your child has a sweater or sweatshirt to wear in class if they get cold.

Our reading strategy this week is focused on informational reading strategies. Using pictures and illustrations to learn facts and details about a topic.

Our spelling words are focused again on the same sound spelled 2 different ways, –au, –aw: launch, pause, draw, hawk, crawl. The Dolch words are: with, some, yellow, upon, once

We’ll also be circling back to informational writing. I’ll be combining what we’re learning now in science, which is landforms on Earth. We’ll be reading and writing about these landforms: mountains, hills, plains, valleys, peninsula. We’ll later get into how those landforms are created and the role that water and wind has in creating them.

In social studies we’re finishing up learning about services provided and actions taken by individuals and government to make our communities safer and nicer places.

In math we are again practicing adding 2 and 3 digit numbers with and without regrouping which is trading but this new program calls it bundling. When we make a group of 10 it’s called bundling so they “carry” the bundle to the tens. We’ll be getting into subtraction as well. With subtraction, they’ll learn to unbundle a ten if they need to borrow a ten due to not having enough ones to subtract. For example, 54-17 does not have enough ones to subtract 7, so a 10 from the 5 becomes unbundled. We used to call it borrowing from the tens to the ones. As always, do as much of the homework as your child understands before getting too tired or upset. Remember, no tears or tempers 🙂  It’s best to leave it undone.

 

 

 

 

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