Good morning, families! This has been such a beautiful weekend. I hope you are all enjoying the weather and time with your families. Here is our plan for the week:

Spelling

Words

1. back

2. duck

3. neck

4. sock

5. sick

6. check

7. does

8. fast

9. pull

10. found

Reading: We are still looking at nonfiction books and texts. It is important that students can distinguish between fiction and informational (nonfiction) books. You can practice sorting books at home into those categories (nonfiction and fiction). Nonfiction books usually have text features such as bold words, glossaries, photos, captions, indexes, and tables of contents. They give us information about a topic and provide facts. Fiction books are stories that are not real. They have characters, problems, solutions, and settings. This week, we will use nonfiction text features to gather key details about a topic. We will look for similarities between books about the same topic and organize our findings on a thinking map.

Writing: We will be gathering our final facts and information about an animal for our research reports. We’ll begin editing this information and some of us will start publishing. They are doing a great job with this. I encourage you to help your children find additional information about his/her animal at home on the internet or in books.

Science: Last week, we planted two types of seeds: alfalfa and grass. We are providing them with all the things that plants need to survive: Water, air, sunlight, and rich soil. We haven’t observed any growth yet, but we are excited to see them sprout. We’ll continue to learn about plant and animal needs as we explore our new science books.

Social Studies: We are continuing to look at and sort examples of human and physical characteristics. We are learning about the natural resources in our environment such as water, trees, rocks, plants, soil. Sometimes humans modify or change our environment by chopping down trees, building structures, or polluting our waters. How does this affect our environment? How does this affect us?

Math: We are learning how to divide shapes into equal parts. Students should know the terms : halves and fourths and should be able to explain what it means to divide a shape into halves or fourths. Also, we are learning how to break apart two digit numbers and add them together. For instance 34+45 = 30+4 + 40+5. 30+40= 70 and 4+5 =9, so the answer is 79. We are representing two and three digit numbers by drawing them with hundreds, tens, and ones.

Have a great Sunday!