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Happy Monday 🙂 No School tomorrow, Tuesday Nov. 5 due to Election Day.
Thank you to those who have returned the blue conference slips. If you haven’t yet, please send them in with your child this week. I look forward to meeting with all of you to get more insite about your child so we can help them learn and grow together.
We are continuing our reading unit with the theme Characters Overcoming Challenges. We’ve been reading some new versions of fairy tales. Our primary reading strategy for this unit is visualizing what the text says when there are not pictures to support.
Our spelling words this week are focused on the long e sound: need, queen, tree, clean, read, leaf, key, happy, funny, piece. The students will be expected to spell the words correctly while writing them in the sentences I give them. I correct any errors in the sentences, such as capitalization, punctuation, other words misspelled but only count the spelling words.
Personal narrative is our writing genre for this unit. Students are learning to choose an event from their life that taught them a lesson and writing about it following a plan.
We’re continuing counting, reading, writing numbers to 1,000 in math. Counting money has been woven in as well.
Social studies continues our unit about map reading skills. Last week was understanding what a map key is and how to use one to help understand reading a map.This week, we’ll be viewing a map of Dearborn which will lead to us making our own.
Science will begin learning about the history of Earth processess that shape the surface.
Henry Ford is also collecting plastic caps of all kinds. We’re hoping to have enough to have some benches made for the playgrounds. Please send in only clean caps for us to collect. Bottle caps, toothpaste caps, laundry caps, etc. Our goal is 1,000 pounds!
Have a great week!
Happy Monday 🙂
Students who came to Social Studies Night last week had a chance to vote on some topics. One was for having Pajama Day tomorrow and Orange and Black day Wednesday. But please make sure your child is wearing gym shoes and is dressed for outside recess.
1/2 Day Friday Nov. 1. School dismisses at 11:45. No lunch will be served.
I hope your child gave you the note from Mrs. Srour about Halloween. You can send in the money for the pumpkin patch activity any day but please by Thursday. This is an optional activity. Any bags of candy can also be brought or sent in by Thursday for the PTA parade. This candy will be passed out to all students as they walk throughout the school. We will not be having class party–the parade takes the place of the party so please send in candy so we have enough for all HF students. Please call the office if you have any questions.
We will begin a new 3 week reading unit about characters facing challenges and how they are solved. We’ll also be writing a personal narrative about a problem we had and the lesson learned.
The spelling focus this week is on long o spelled -oa, -ow, -o: float, soap, roast, loaf, grow, bowl, throw, both, going, cold. Due to the half day, we’ll just have a word test this week.
Our writing skill this week, in addition to a personal narrative is to continue comparing 2 fairy tales and write an opinion using evidence from the texts.
We’ll begin exploring maps and learning more about our community and where it is in our next social studies unit.
For math, we continue reading and writing numbers within 1000 and will now use money and coins to count.
I hear the Color Run went well. For those of you who went, wear your shirts this week 🙂
Today is Picture Day however, if your child is absent or you forgot, there will be a day for make ups at a later time.
We have a fun but educational evening this Wednesday: Social Studies Night 🙂 There will be many activities to do including a mock election for students to choose new playground equipment and a Spirit Day. It runs from 5:00-6:30. It’s always a fun event. Hope to see you there!
Our reading strategy this week continues to be asking and answering questions from both fiction and non fiction text. We’ll be using texts that also teach a bit about our American history and the beginning of our nation’s founding.
Spelling words this week focus on the long a sound spelled “ai”, “a”, “ea”, “ay”. day, rain, mail, play, paint, stay, break, great, chain, say. Beginning this Friday, the words will be given in sentences that students have to write for the test. Only spelling words will be marked incorrect not the other words in the sentences–unless the letters are written backwards, “d” for a “b”, “q” for a “p”. I will be reminding them to use capital letters at the beginning of each sentence and punctuation at the end.
We also continue learning about writing an opinion piece for our writer’s workshop time. We’ve been reading 2 different fairy tales, discussing them and reading opinions about the characters written by others. Beginning this week, the students will write their own opinion based on a prompt I will give them.
We are learning to read, write and model 3 digit numbers for our math skills this week. The students have been drawing models as well and reading models the show a number. This leads into counting and modeling money amounts using bills of $1, $10, $100.
Looking ahead to Halloween: The students are allowed to wear their costumes to school all day, just no weapons or scary masks. The parade will be inside throughout the school with the PTA members passing out candy. If you’re not a PTA member yet, please join so you can join us for the parade 🙂 Bags of candy will be needed by the PTA for the candy passing. No class party–parade instead.
All for now! I’ll update if there is anything new during the week 🙂
If you haven’t taken the Parent Survey yet, please do so. Your input is important to us. If you’ve taken it already–Thank You.
Parents, If you can, please join the PTA tomorrow morning here at school for their first Color Run! It’s a fun fund raiser from 11-1. Fun activities and each participant will leave with their own colorful t-shirt created by running through the colors 🙂 Bring your own white shirt and the cost will be $10, or pay $15 and get the shirt here.
Hope you can make it!
Good morning!
Late Start this Wednesday October 16. School begins at 9:35
In our reading unit Why Do We Need a Government?, we continue to use informational text as our focus to ask questions before, during and after our reading. The spelling this week teaches open and closed syllables which helps students to chunk larger words into smaller parts to read them correctly. The spelling words are: go, we, hi, no, she, napkin, dentist, problem, open, silent.
Writing an opinion piece is our main focus for writing. We are looking and analyzing model responses to a prompt and using the text to provide the evidence for our opinion. Our opinions are not right or wrong, but they need to be supported with evidence.
Math continues with counting within 1000, including skip counting by 1,10,100 and using models to write and draw numbers.
I’m hoping to finish up our social studies unit this week with our required online test.
In science we continue with properties of matter.
Enjoy your week!
Good morning! I hope everyone had an enjoyable weekend 🙂
1/2 day this Friday October 11. Dismissal is 11:45. No lunch will be served that day.
This week we will begin our spelling tests with a pretest Mondays and the final test on Tuesdays. Students will write their words in their Planners but I will also post them here. The words this week focus on the short vowel sounds in words. These are review from grade 1 and a firming up of the sounds. run, him, box, flag, jump, stand, wet, this, chest, shop.
Informational test will be the teaching point for the next 3 weeks in our guided reading. It ties in with social studies with the topic this week: Government at Work.
We’ll begin opinion writing with the goal of orally and in writing, stating an opinion and supporting ideas with evidence from the text we are reading.
For math this week, we’re at the end of our measuring unit so I am assessing how well the students can measure using a centimeter ruler as well as showing how much more/less one object is than another.
Science continues our learning about properties of matter. I hope your child shared with you what we did to check the insulating property of materials. Hint: it had to do with hot and cold water bottles 😉
All for now! Enjoy your week 🙂
